Reoccurring pain & fever

Hi Alexis, reoccurring symptoms as you have described are certainly a mystery as to what would be the cause.

The elevated level of creatine kinase could certainly point towards some type of muscle injury, and yes sever muscle strain, particularly if a large group of muscles were involved, can cause fever and general lethargy.

However this could only happen on a regular basis if the greyhound was kept in an environment where the opportunity existed for it to go on an unsupervised mad gallop around a large property, or chase livestock for an extended time whenever it was feeling real good and full of energy.

If on the other hand the general kenneling environment was limited to living in an apartment with regular walks, and possibly some supervised restricted free running on a weekly basis I would be concerned about investigating the possibility of some type of cancer, and even the possibility of bone cancer causing these symptoms.

cheers,
Tom