What's wrong with dogs drinking suddenly increasing? It may be that the dog has kidney disease or symptoms of dehydration caused by overwork. It is recommended to take your dog to the veterinary hospital for regular check-ups to ensure their hea...
What's wrong with dogs drinking suddenly increasing? It may be that the dog has kidney disease or symptoms of dehydration caused by overwork. It is recommended to take your dog to the veterinary hospital for regular check-ups to ensure their health.
1. Eating too salty
If the owner gives the dog too salty food, or gives the dog a human food, it will cause the dog to feel thirsty and drink water frequently. This is a normal situation, and the owner does not have to worry too much, but he should try to give his dog some foods that are too high in salt, especially foods eaten by people, otherwise it will also aggravate the dog's hair loss. It is best to feed the dog some lighter and easier to absorb food.
2. Just after the intense exercise, because the dog has no sweat glands, when the intensity is just after the intense exercise or when the weather is hot in the summer, the dog will dissipate heat through his tongue and cool down by drinking water, while replenishing the lost water. This is also a normal situation. The owner only needs to take the dog to a cool and ventilated place to rest in time and provide sufficient drinking water.
3. Fever
After a fever, dogs will also drink a lot of water to lower their body temperature, and will also be accompanied by symptoms of mental depression, dry nose, decreased appetite or loss of appetite. Therefore, after discovering that the dog has the above symptoms, the owner can measure the dog's body temperature. If the test temperature is higher than 39 degrees Celsius, the dog will have a fever and needs to go to the pet hospital to get a fever-reducing injection.
4. Diabetes
When a dog suffers from severe diabetes, the blood sugar in the body is not controlled in time, resulting in an increase in blood osmotic pressure, which will cause the dog to drink a lot of water, and due to the increase in the kidney filtration load, it will also cause the dog to experience polyuria. Therefore, it is recommended that owners conduct regular health checks on their dogs, especially for older dogs who are prone to gain weight. Pay attention to controlling diet and exercise to prevent the occurrence of metabolic diseases such as diabetes.
5. Renal failure
After a dog suffers from renal failure, it will cause serious damage to the kidney function, which will lead to the dog's uncontrollable urine excretion and increase the amount of urination, which will stimulate the dog, causing the dog to feel thirsty, causing the dog to drink a lot of water, and may also experience symptoms such as vomiting, depression, loss of appetite, and even failure. Since renal failure is a very serious internal medicine disease, dogs suffering from renal failure must go to the pet hospital for treatment in time, otherwise it will easily worsen, causing severe renal failure and leading to life-threatening.
