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Weight Loss · Signs & symptoms · Diagnosis · Treatment · Related articles
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Pets with unhealthy weight loss have less energy and less resistance to infection than pets of normal weight. Pets with unhealthy weight loss are often lethargic. They have dull coats that grow in splotches. Pets with unhealthy weight loss are unable to reproduce so that the females do not become pregnant or do not carry their offspring to term.
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The ribs are prominent, and looking down on the pet, there is a sharply defined waist as the flanks cave in between the last ribs and the hip bones.
With sudden, short-term weight loss in cats or dogs caused by dehydration rather than loss of fat, the eyes appear sunken, the skin tents when pinched and does not spring back quickly, there is little urine production, the stools are hard, and the mucous membranes covering the gums are tacky rather than moist.
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