Addiction is a chronic brain disease that induces compulsive activity, despite health, social and legal consequences. A person may seem to make a voluntary choice to try a drug or begin a type of behavior, but a variety of genetic and environmental factors influence those decisions.
Expert: Theresa replied 8 years ago. Symptoms of a dying dog include, lack of appetite, pale, blue, or gray gums, dry gums, inability to stand, dilated pupils, difficulty breathing, unresponsiveness, and neurologic symptoms. A dog can live for a couple weeks without enough food and water.
Polyphagia can also be the result of diabetes onset, because the body often can not assimilate blood sugar when diabetic conditions are present. Blood sugar levels can be lowered as a direct result of insulin related tumors that your dog may have developed, and this will also have a direct impact on its appetite.