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My senior Lab won't eat, vomits yellow, and is losing weight. Why?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Golden Labrador | Male | unneutered | 10 years and 9 months old | 32 lbs

Hi I have a 11 year old Labrador that won't eat and when he does eat 5 minutes later he vomits what he as eaten and yellow flew this as been going on for a few years been back and forth to the vets had scans the can't find anything medically wrong because of this problem he has started to lose weight any advice gladly appreciated.Thank you Denise

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Answered By Maria DVM

Veterinarian

Published on October 16th, 2018

The next step for Cody is an abdominal ultrasound. This is going to look at the architecture of the organs. If this was performed or nothing was found then I would recommend biopsies of the stomach and potentially intestines. Thank you for using PetCoch.

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