From:
Marie Schatz
Date: 2001-11-09 15:54:00 UTC
Subject: Popeye
Based on the additional information I'd say that Popeye the
non-pee'er
may have the urethral narrowing associated with
adrenal/swollen prostrate.
They don't all lose their hair, some may just lose weight,
skin gets a little thinner etc.
I think she's waiting way too long to get him to a vet. My
vet says that having their
bladder's fill up and basically explode is probably one the
slower most painful ways
he can think for an animal to die.
Mary
"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are
other
nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,"
Henry Beston