Canine Kidney Disease, How Dogs with Kidney Disease Feel

We're discussing a dozen aspects of kidney disease and have covered what the kidney does, now let's consider how dogs with kidney disease feel:

From the expression on the face and in the eyes of dogs with untreated kidney disease I believe they feel awful.

Dogs with kidney disease:
• are anemic and lethargic
• have stomach pain and vomit
• have painful mouth ulcers
• don’t want to eat and become emaciated
• feel thirsty and dehydrated
• can be too weak to walk outside to urinate and pee on themselves
• have itchy skin
• have edematous limbs
• have headaches as waste products reach high concentrations in the brain
• become blind because high blood pressure damages the retina
• have strokes and seizures

What can cause kidney disease, how can we test for it, and how can we treat it? In a future blog, we'll cover more aspects of kidney disease in dogs.