Puppy bleeding from backside!

joansgirl

Eeeek!!! My 4 (nearly 5) month old Lab is bleeding when she poos! Her motions have been a bit soft for a couple of days now and she was a bit quiet last night but this morning when I let her out for the toilet her poo was pink streaked. Then when I took her on her proper walk her poo was even looser and there was blood dripping from her back end. I've phoned the emergency vet who said it's probably an inflamed bowel and I've got an appointment for 10.10 this morning. My vets have told me that they don't recommend starving any animal with stomach/bowel problems anymore as the eating and digesting processes supposedly accelerates healing. So I've fed her as normal. She's eating and drinking ok. I know it's probably nothing but I'm worried sick. It's quite alarming to see blood dripping from your dogs bottom!

any_name_will_suffice

Good luck at the vets. Is she up to date with worming?

A few years ago, my dog had really explosively loose stools, with blood. The vet suggested it could be hook worm, and sent mt home with a dose of wormer and something to take the inflammation in his gut down- it cleared up within a couple of days.

Fingers crossed it's something just as simple x

krlyr

Is it bright red or darker blood? Bright red means it's come from the lower end if the digestive system, e.g. if a slightly constipated dog strains to poo and thsy causes a bit if bleeding. Darker red/brown is the more concerning colour as this has come from further up the system, e.g. blood from inside the stomach.

For the former, I'd be happy to wait for a next day vet appointment, for the latter it would be an emergency vet trip.

joansgirl

It's bright red, like if you cut yourself. The emergency vet I rang this morning said it was probably inflammatory colitis and not to panic but she's up there this morning whatever. As for worming, she had Advocate on 12th August and she's been having other worm treatment on the intervening 2 weeks and she's actually due to be wormed today. Early last week she was going for her bum and smelled fishy so I assumed it was anal glands. It seemed to clear up on it's own but maybe they got infected. She's still eating and drinking as normal. I'm just panicking coz she's so young. But better to be safe than sorry.

elsien

Horrible, isn't it? I had the same with mutt - I was trying to gather samples to show the vet (who really didn't want them!) because I was convinced it was something fatal. Mainly because it was so unexpected- really put the wind up me.
Turned out to be colitis which was such a relief. Hope goes well at you appointment.

joansgirl

Do dogs stomachs get tougher as they get older? Coz she's a Lab she eats any and everything and I think that this is what's happened. Dietary Indiscretion my vet calls it. She's been allowed off the lead and is always disappearing into the undergrowth. God knows what she eats when she's in there. I'm hoping she becomes more tolerant of these things as she gets older so that I can still let her off coz apart from the scavenging she's really good. I really don't want her on the lead all the time and the only other option is to muzzle her. Don't want to do that either. Actually she's pretty good on an extending lead. But I'd still rather have her off the lead. But if that's what it takes I'll have to bite the bullet.

any_name_will_suffice

Mine doesn't appear to have done. He was eating something (i think sheep poo) recently, and spent the next 24 hours vomiting. :eek:

manda1205

My lab has definitly got more tolerant the older shes got. When she was a pup and younger she would quite often get into the undergrowth and come out chomping on bones. She would then get the squits for a few days. But now shes 4, she doesn't seem to get them, she is a nightmare for picking up things and eating them but it just doesn't seem to effect her like it did.

joansgirl

any_name_will_suffice wrote: »

Mine doesn't appear to have done. He was eating something (i think sheep poo) recently, and spent the next 24 hours vomiting. :eek:

Oh my God! Why do we love them sooo much when they do stuff like this? My last dog used to eat any and all poo, including other dogs. He had a long snout and it used to get trapped behind his top teeth. I used to have to scrape it out of his mouth (with a poo bag on my hand) and it would seep out between his teeth. He never got an upset stomach through it though. Cast iron guts!

joansgirl

manda1205 wrote: »

My lab has definitly got more tolerant the older shes got. When she was a pup and younger she would quite often get into the undergrowth and come out chomping on bones. She would then get the squits for a few days. But now shes 4, she doesn't seem to get them, she is a nightmare for picking up things and eating them but it just doesn't seem to effect her like it did.

Thanks Manda, that gives me hope for the future.

any_name_will_suffice

I would say if anything, mine has got less tolerant. I used to be able to give him bones and things, but these days they make him vomit too. I seem to spend my life cleaning it up. I found a dried patch on his bed the other day, I have no idea how long it had been there :eek:

Good luck at the vets