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I was reflecting today as I watched the greyhound girls eat their tea, I have now lost 4 greyhounds/lurchers with quite similar symptoms.
Jura in April 2008 - never found out what was wrong with her, the vet was useless, but she got thinner and thinner and in the end I had her PTS
Talisker in December 2008 - got thinner and thinner, also had chronic diarrhoea, was PTS and biopsies proved he had lymphoma of the gut
Islay in May 2017 - developed megaesophagus
Hoover in September 2018 - got thinner and thinner, again no diagnosis but seemed likely to be cancer as very similar to Talisker and Jura
It has made me wonder about what I feed them - at the moment they are on Skinners, as the cost of raw got to be prohibitive, but as I am shortly going to be horseless again this might be back as an option. Is this a diet problem? Is it a breed problem? I really can't face going through all of this again with Amy and Flick, who are both around 11 or 12 now
Jura in April 2008 - never found out what was wrong with her, the vet was useless, but she got thinner and thinner and in the end I had her PTS
Talisker in December 2008 - got thinner and thinner, also had chronic diarrhoea, was PTS and biopsies proved he had lymphoma of the gut
Islay in May 2017 - developed megaesophagus
Hoover in September 2018 - got thinner and thinner, again no diagnosis but seemed likely to be cancer as very similar to Talisker and Jura
It has made me wonder about what I feed them - at the moment they are on Skinners, as the cost of raw got to be prohibitive, but as I am shortly going to be horseless again this might be back as an option. Is this a diet problem? Is it a breed problem? I really can't face going through all of this again with Amy and Flick, who are both around 11 or 12 now