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Opal is just under 3 years old. She's a shelter dog who suffers from extreme anxiety and fear of people. Especially men. If I had to guess, she was beat. It takes her a good month of consistent contact around someone to get to the point that her anal glands don't spray and she cowers in fear when someone new is around. With women, it's a little less. So here's the situation.
1. She's coonhound and lab mix. Tons of energy. For the past 2.5 years I've fed her 2 cups of food each day. Normally she just eats it when she likes to. Sometimes all in one sitting, sometimes I'll go to feed her the next day and half of it will still be there. About a month ago, this suddenly stopped. She gobbles her food down and half the time she acts like she's not ate in a month, staring at her food bowl or nudging it with her nose.
2. I started to notice that she was a little thinner about 2 weeks ago. Nothing staggering, just that around her hips she was toning down (she wasn't overweight at all before). Her stool has been fine. No diahrea or noticeable worms in it. About a week ago, I doubled her food intake. I have an automatic feeder, so instead of getting 2 cups at 6 pm, she gets 1 cup at 6 am, 1 and noon, and 2 at 6pm. Now I know in a week I won't see a change in her size upward, but today I looked at her and it looks like she's lost even more weight. I can't get a solid reading on our bathroom scale, so I can't say for sure what she even weighs.
Before I take her into the vet and pay an exhorbitant vet fee etc... Is there anything else I should look at/for or do?
If it matters, she takes a Sentinel pill every month so that *should* control any worms. Her energy level has not gone down (or up for that matter), she's still all puppy. Her mood is the same as always too. She doesn't seem depressed. Her drinking habbits are the same, so it's not a lack of water.
Old video of her about a year ago playing at my parents house.
1. She's coonhound and lab mix. Tons of energy. For the past 2.5 years I've fed her 2 cups of food each day. Normally she just eats it when she likes to. Sometimes all in one sitting, sometimes I'll go to feed her the next day and half of it will still be there. About a month ago, this suddenly stopped. She gobbles her food down and half the time she acts like she's not ate in a month, staring at her food bowl or nudging it with her nose.
2. I started to notice that she was a little thinner about 2 weeks ago. Nothing staggering, just that around her hips she was toning down (she wasn't overweight at all before). Her stool has been fine. No diahrea or noticeable worms in it. About a week ago, I doubled her food intake. I have an automatic feeder, so instead of getting 2 cups at 6 pm, she gets 1 cup at 6 am, 1 and noon, and 2 at 6pm. Now I know in a week I won't see a change in her size upward, but today I looked at her and it looks like she's lost even more weight. I can't get a solid reading on our bathroom scale, so I can't say for sure what she even weighs.
Before I take her into the vet and pay an exhorbitant vet fee etc... Is there anything else I should look at/for or do?
If it matters, she takes a Sentinel pill every month so that *should* control any worms. Her energy level has not gone down (or up for that matter), she's still all puppy. Her mood is the same as always too. She doesn't seem depressed. Her drinking habbits are the same, so it's not a lack of water.
Old video of her about a year ago playing at my parents house.
