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Congratulations on your acceptance to vet school. There’s not a lot I can tell you about liver disease in animals, but in direct answer to your first question, we lost a Black Lab mix to a tumor in the liver. We never realized there was any problem until one day he became very listless, wouldn’t eat, and showed a great deal of discomfort. He had always had a very good appetite and his not eating was a big red flag to us.

We took him to the emergency vet clinic. Apparently the tumor had progressed to the point that a artery in the liver had been invaded and he was bleeding out into his abdomen. They discovered the tumor during exploratory surgery and saw it was inoperable. We let him go without his ever coming out of the anesthesia.

14 years old and we’d had him since he was weaned. Very difficult for us to lose him. No obvious symptoms up until the very last day even though he had regular visits to the vet for vaccinations, annual health checkups, etc.