r/sharpei

Has anyone’s Pei been diagnosed with this?

My girl has packed on a cool 15# in the last year or so with the exact same diet and snacks. I reduced her food and pretty sure she’s still gaining weight. She no longer wants to go on a walk and won’t take more than a few steps out the front door unless she sees a squirrel or deer to chase. She’s going to be 9 next month so I chalked it up to old age. Now she’s got a chunk of fur missing from her face and the skin underneath is dry/scaly. She also started getting ear infections in the last year when she never had any prior issues. Andddd she has some bald spots on her back legs plus the beautiful seborrhea bumps. Her cankles always look swollen or full but the vet always checks and says they’re fine. She gets her T4 checked during her senior lab work and it was 2.1 last year but Dr Google told me that falls normal or low.

I lovingly call her my lemon, so maybe she’s just fat (which would be 100% my fault) with all the other issues separate. I’m taking her to the dogtor Thursday but didn’t know if anyone had any tips or experience with it.

TLDR: my Pei is turning into a fatty patty and I’m concerned she has tertiary hypothyroidism.

Hello everyone,

I am new to this sub. But wanted to ask a question, i have a sharpei (7y), i don't think he is 100% sharpei tho, by seeing pictures of the breed. But on to the question, my dog has recently developed a cough, really nasty sounds, we went to the vet a few months ago because of another cough, he got medicine and all was fixed, but now the cough came back meaner. He is currently recieving medicine for his cough, and i pray it will go away soon. He had some instances of a clogged nose by a cold in the past but never a cough, let alone such a nasty one. My question is, is this normal for the breed? Because in all the time that we had him he never had a cough, we had a few colds but never a cough. Could anyone share their experiences? I am afraid that this is atypical because he always has the same things come back like his allergies and as i said, a cold, or an ear infection but this is new, i am afraid that it's not normal for him to have the same thing so shortly after each other.
For reference i am not the 'owner', my parents are, they chose the breed, but i would love to know because i forgot to ask the vet if it is a normal occurance in this dogbreed, or if it is because of enviromental reasons (which i dont think because he never had it before now) maybe i sound stupid and ignorant but i hope someone would share his/her/their experience if it is normal or not,

Thanks in advance

Hey all! I have a 6 month old Pit Pei, and he’s been really picky lately. I know they’re notoriously stubborn, but it’s continuously gotten worse. So much so, that it’s really hard for me to keep him on any kind of eating schedule because I just want him to eat! Store bought/homeade toppers on dry food were helping, and he will get homemade dog food often, but now he just seems over it again. I know he probably won’t let himself starve, but does anyone have any suggestions/something that worked for them? Do I just have a picky baby? Haha