Good news is Coco has made it to now quite well from when she was so sick back in October 2020. So she's nearly 4 years older and is now 11.5 years old. She's done really well the last four years on her new diet and her meds.
However, she seems to have taken a bit of a turn for the worse. Vet thinks she may have stage 1 kidney failure based on blood tests and she's got less energy, is more frail and seems to be losing weight. As a 7 lb Yorkie, she's lost a pound in the past 4 months.
She doesn't run nor jump like she used to. We are treating her like an older dog. Helping her up on the couch, helping her back down, etc. We have a meeting with the vet tomorrow to see if there's another course of action we can take to help her.
My fear now is she's nearly 12 years old, which it appears is a tad early for a Yorkie to pass away but certainly not out of the question, especially for a Yorkie with IBD. |