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.
If your dog eats cat feces that are infectious, he can develop a toxoplasmosis infection himself. Symptoms include loss of appetite, fever and depression. Untreated, toxoplasmosis can give a dog seizures, paralysis, stiff muscles, pneumonia, heart arrythmia and digestive problems.