Bloody Diareea

[zoomer]

Alaska, our oldest dog has ben having bloody diareeah all over the house for the past few days. I'm not sure what it is and what it's coming from. He's been fine. We switched his food about a month ago and he had no reation to it and I doubt hed have one know since its been a month since we switched the food. Do you think it has something to do with his gae? He's 7 years old. He's seemed really healthy, playing like a pup, chasing balls and running, bouncing, prancing along with the others. I know it's him because its on his bottom. We will be taking him to the vet very soon but before we go spend a ton of money I wanted to see if there was something we could do. I'm really worried about him. But he doesn't seem to have anything wrong with him except the poop. Thanks everyone.

[.sarah]

The only thing you can do is take him to a vet. I'm sure he's not very comfortable. Bloody diarreah can be numerous things and the dog needs to see a vet to get the proper diagnosis.

[Dixieland Dancer]

Anytime there is blood in the stool (especially diarhea) the dog needs to see the vet immediately. You also need to make sure he doesn't become dehydrated. Please keep us posted.

[lv4dogs]

Yes, blood in the stool should be seen by a vet asap, especially diarrhea and even more especially if it's lasting that long. I hope it's nothing but I fear it may be urgent, please get him to the vet & keep us posted. I wish yous the best of luck.

[DIANESDOGS]

Any possibility that he got into some CHOCOLATE? My Molly ate a whole box of chocolate once and she had bloody diarhea for a week. We called the vet right away because we knew that she had eaten the chocolate. He asked for her weight and how much she ate. Using a calculation, he said that she should be fine, but to watch for bloddy diarhea as that would likely occur. Actually, I was quite surprised that she was Ok and there was no need to bring her in. It really takes an awful lot of chocolate (something like 10 lbs of pure cocoa) to be toxic. But she did eventually get the bloody diarhea and it ran it's course.

P.S. Did you see that there are 4 different spellings for diarhea in these posts? WHO'S RIGHT? LOL!!!

[Jessika]

P.S. Did you see that there are 4 different spellings for diarhea in these posts? WHO'S RIGHT? LOL!!!

Its diarrhea

[.sarah]

Its diarrhea

I just checked and you're right. When I worked at the clinic I spelled it like that and Dr.D corrected me and spelt it "diarreah". And now I've been spelling it wrong. You'd think a vet would know how to spell it

[VTJess03]

I would also like to add that taking a stool sample with you to the vet could be helpful to diagnose the problem. When I first took mine to get on a regular worm medication, it was because I noticed blood in the softer than normal stools (in our case it was hookworms).

Good luck at the vet!

[zoomer]

Any possibility that he got into some CHOCOLATE? My Molly ate a whole box of chocolate once and she had bloody diarhea for a week. We called the vet right away because we knew that she had eaten the chocolate. He asked for her weight and how much she ate. Using a calculation, he said that she should be fine, but to watch for bloddy diarhea as that would likely occur. Actually, I was quite surprised that she was Ok and there was no need to bring her in. It really takes an awful lot of chocolate (something like 10 lbs of pure cocoa) to be toxic. But she did eventually get the bloody diarhea and it ran it's course.

P.S. Did you see that there are 4 different spellings for diarhea in these posts? WHO'S RIGHT? LOL!!!

Yes, he ate a whole bar, but we gave him hydrogen poroxide so he'd throw it up so I don't think thats really the reason.

[lv4dogs]

How is he doing today?