https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/27194/orange-discolouration-of-fat-in-a-dog--any-ideas Posting on the off-chance that someone has come across this before, or can suggest reason/significance? Patient is a 12yo JRT female entire, 3 day history of vomiting, ex lap today, duodenal foreign body removed via enterotomy. The sub-cutaneousen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/199908?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 14 Jul 2018 22:07:45 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:6cf3b2d8-f7de-47cb-a84b-54336c7c3e94Virginia Campbell<p>It&#39;s been at the Sunny Delight</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/199767?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:11:38 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:060dbd71-0db4-49c3-a466-6eb126b3c459Chris Geddes<p>Carotenosis/carotenemia? Colouration of fat is due to carotene. Cartonenosis in people (common in vegetarians) shows as orange-coloured skin. As caroteine stored in fat, I presume it also shows as particularly yellow/orange fat. High dietary intake of carotene, I imagine. Which is fine, it&#39;s non-toxic. I would be interested to know what the diet is, especially if owner feels carrots, for example (mine love them!) - orange for the same reason, of course!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/199762?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:15:13 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:20b15946-e427-48ce-ba8f-e2827c46119aLinda Filshie<p>A colleague has spayed two CKCS from the same household a year or so apart and noted orange- yellow fat with both- she only remembered the first one when she phoned the owner post-surgery and the owner said, &quot;oh yes, you told us that about the other one last year&quot;! Both dogs were fed RCW food, think it might have been RCW cavalier. Bloods were normal, recovery from surgery uneventful, and we assumed a dietary component a bit like corn-fed chickens, or as you mentioned, carotenoid.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>