JP>> Did your Collie dull down too?
 JK> He became very slow, overweight, his hair fell
 JK> out, his skin became terrible--open sores, etc.
 JK> In spite of which, the vet I was seeing at the
 JK> time would shrug everytime I asked her what she
 JK> thought the problem was.  When I made a specific
 JK> appointment with my original vet, he immediately
 JK> suspected thyroid...
Don't be too annoyed at that vet:  My thyroid went
hyper (suspected cause, a car accident I was in 15
years prior) and my family doctor treated the miriad
symptoms for SEVEN years and never put them together
to come to the conclusion that it was my thyroid.
I changed drs (I liked him but his wife was a real
harridan who insisted on working in his office, she
pulled a last-straw intolerable maneuver on me so I
gave up and fled as did quite a number of his other
patients.), the new one diagnosed it immediately and
not a little frantically.  So missing it isn't that
unusual.
 JK> He eventually returned to being a more active dog,
 JK> lost weight, and his hair grew back in.  He always
 JK> had recurring skin problems, though, periodically
 JK> requiring treatment.
That's great.  (I feel a lot better too.)
 JK> I imagine it is very possible for cats to suffer
 JK> from the same problem, but I have never asked the
 JK> vet about it specifically.
Oh, yes.  Hyperthyroidism is more common, hypoT is less,
but they can suffer from it.
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