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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom Compulsive water drinking in a 6mth old puppy ? Really?
I understand that diabetes mellitus was ruled out.
But you haven't ruled out DIABETES INSIPIDUS -- and -- you are now restricting water. Just so you know, water restriction in a dog who *does* have DI can result in severe hyperosmolality, coma, and death. |
yikes that is scary - I would definitely get a second opinion after reading about this - can you fax this info to your vet and ask again about it just to be sure as many times vets do not know everything about everything and we have to sometimes help educate them on out of the normal things they may not think about - better to be extra safe here if it turns out to be something like this as i doubt a dog would be compulsive about drinking water as that just does not sound right to me - usually they are doing something if there is something wrong