JP> JP>> Did your Collie dull down too?
JP> JK> He became very slow, overweight, his hair fell
JP> JK> out, his skin became terrible--open sores, etc.
JP> JK> In spite of which, the vet I was seeing at the
JP> JK> time would shrug everytime I asked her what she
JP> JK> thought the problem was.  When I made a specific
JP> JK> appointment with my original vet, he immediately
JP> JK> suspected thyroid...
JP>Don't be too annoyed at that vet:  My thyroid went
JP>hyper (suspected cause, a car accident I was in 15
JP>years prior) and my family doctor treated the miriad
JP>symptoms for SEVEN years and never put them together
JP>to come to the conclusion that it was my thyroid.
Of course *g* Slow changes are "invisible" - unless you look at an old
school yearbook 8-)
Laird and ^^ ^^   (the Two Furry Fiends)
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