Rita explores whether dogs with Cushing's disease develop more lipomas, linking excess damp, water retention, and hormonal stress to fatty lumps. Certain breeds show predisposition to both conditions, and pituitary tumors may play a role, though definitive research is lacking.
Do you think dogs with Cushing's are more prone to lipomas?
There is some commentary about dogs with lipomas and their predisposition. So if I get this right, and Rita, I apologize now if I don't recall the exact words you used in your, um, your talk, but that's where he talked about the excess of damp and cold So damp being a predisposition to dogs getting lipomas, and that would then come in to your issues with Cushing's, your excess of thirst and water retention. So I think that from a complementary point of view, yes, I could see the link. I could understand it's a hormonal stressor. There is a lot of discussion about the microtumours, the relationship with the pituitary, and what may be going on with that. So are they more likely to have both? There are certain breeds which are predisposed to both. So I think that's possibly where that confusion comes in. Whether there truly is a link, I haven't seen that paper. I think there's a link to the breed types and predispositions.
Yeah, there's a link here with them. Well, it doesn't matter, it's going into fatty tumors, which is not what we're talking about.
That's lipomas.
Yeah, is it a tumor? I mean, it's a—
it's a—
because Dudley's got them. Dudley's got these fatty lumps.
They're a benign type of tumor. You can get liposarcomas, which are a more aggressive form, um, but the majority are lipomata. So this is where you have to differentiate tumors, a swelling, Okay, of tissue versus cancer. Okay, versus a metastatic cancer. And it all gets very confusing for many people. And I think realistically, they're all types of tumor. It's just how aggressive they are. You want to be able to maneuver it. Okay, so it's not attached to underlying tissues.
