Excessive drinking

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Mahoganybay

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My old girl (14 year old Golden Retriever) has in the last week or so started drinking excessively, she is drinking about 4-5 pints a day and as a result is peeing a lot too.

Rang the vets who asked me to bring in a pee sample, duly caught her first morning pee and it was tested, vet said no sugar in sample and the pee was almost water, it was that dilute.

Vet suspected Cushings Disease as she has the curly coat with hair loss, muscle wastage & repeated bouts of Colitis, she had bloods taken and they have come back all normal! No reason he says to do further test for Cushings.

Vet now says it could be lack of salt in her diet, psychological or Diabetes Inspidus (although he said very rare)!

Anyone we any experience / advise?. Just want my old girl to be comfortable, bless her.
 
She doesn't sound right, but if your vet has done all the logical tests, if they've come back with no pointers, then it's only a matter of excessive water intake, so all that you can really do is to sit and wait, and see whether anything develops. 14 is a goodish age and it would be at the point where you may start to notice a decline.

Possibly an irrelevance, but I have two kennelled Cocker bitches, and they both go through occasional bouts of high levels of water intake, and then they settle to a more normal level. One's a 2 yo and the other's a 6 yo. They seem none the worse for these occasional spurts.

Alec.
 
Alec Swan said:
She doesn't sound right, but if your vet has done all the logical tests, if they've come back with no pointers, then it's only a matter of excessive water intake, so all that you can really do is to sit and wait, and see whether anything develops. 14 is a goodish age and it would be at the point where you may start to notice a decline.

Possibly an irrelevance, but I have two kennelled Cocker bitches, and they both go through occasional bouts of high levels of water intake, and then they settle to a more normal level. One's a 2 yo and the other's a 6 yo. They seem none the worse for these occasional spurts.

Alec.
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Thanks Alec, will be keeping an eye on her & see if it settles.
 
CaveCanem said:
Sounds simple, but you turned the thermostat up during this colder spell?
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She does overheat and lies on the stone flagged kitchen floor alot, but she has done that for some time and only started with this drinking in the last week or so.

Heating not been turned up as we put on the log burner at night, the dog leaves the room when it on and goes & lies in the kitchen.
 
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