Dog on steroid - quick question :)

[lvpets2002]

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[Catlady711]

Yes steroids will make them drink and eat more. Let your doggie have all the water she wants assuming she doesn't start having accidents. Maybe allow her just a little more food assuming she isn't already very overweight. Break the feedings up so she's fed more often through the day sometimes helps. You don't want to allow her to eat too much extra or you'll end up with alot of weight that may cause more problems and be harder to get back off.

[Karen]

As a human who has been on prednisone a couple times, I can attest to the fact that it makes me VERY hungry. I'm talking "buy me the whole grocery store worth of food and cook it please" hungry. It does not, however make one's stomach any bigger, so if I cooked, I'd end up making way more food than I could possibly eat.

In your dog's case, just keep low-calorie snacks on hand, like raw carrots for one good example, to avoid a lot of weight gain. The hunger is all illusory, and if you give in to it, people have been known to gain a lot of weight f on it long-term. So low-calorie snacks are the best bet, and don;t let her near the credit card or she'll be ordering truckloads of dogfood!