Something's wrong with Meggie

Sorry she was feeling yucky!! It sure does scare us Mom moms when our furbabes get sick :sadsmile:

Here's hoping and praying she's back to herself today :wink2:
 
Unfortunately, I have experienced this with Bailey. It is the scariest thing to see your dog poop blood in large amounts.

It happened to Bailey at the end of June. She started off with diarrhea, she refused to eat, threw up and then become lethargic. I took her to an emergency vet. She was diagnosed with gas, given a shot for the vomiting, metrondozle for diarrhea and was not allowed to eat or drink for 8 hours. She was starting to feel better and then a few hours later she started pooping blood...pure blood. I was terrified. I called back the vet. He said this was normal. (Didn't seem normal to me!) He said no food for 24 hours. She continued to poop blood throughout the night, but it got less and less. I stayed up with her the whole night. I took her to my normal vet the next morning. She was all ready starting to feel better by then. It took a while for her bowel movements to go back to normal. About 2 weeks later, she pooped blood again. We got more metrondozle from the vet. It finally went away.

I believe she picked up a virus from the park. 6 days after Bailey had bloody diarrhea, my parents' maltese started pooping blood and their chihuahua started having loose stool. We took them both to the vet and got them on metrondozle. Thankfully, they recovered a lot faster than Bailey did.

I advise you to not let Meggie and Cooper share a water bowl for the next few days. If she did pick up a virus, you don't want her to pass it on to Cooper.

I hope Meggie feels better soon!
 
Thanks everyone for your well wishes and thanks Dr. Shelli for chiming in. I was hoping you'd post your thoughts.

Meggie seems perfectly normal in her behavior and the rectal bleeding is just a trace amount of blood now after she goes potty. I keep checking and will do so for several days.

You guys are all great!!
 
Good to hear that she sounds like she's alright!

Not having experienced it with either of my girls, I'm able to say I'm glad I haven't. And I hope it stays that way.

Get well soon Meggie.
 
I did once but Dow was real old and I think he had cancer. He also had a lot of other issues (dementia for one). I STRONGLY doubt this is Meggie's issue. As I say Dow was old and due to my ignorance lived on puppy chow then Iams (OK that is not terrible food) and a bit of everything else including his favorite enchiladas :rolleyes2:. If it is recurrent (months) check this out otherwise I am guessing intestinal bug
 
Just wanted to let you all know that Meggie's incident seems to be an isolated one. She is fine now, with no more blood in her stool. She never acted out-of-sorts at all. I'm so relieved I have you all to go to for advise and support.

Thanks to all from both Meggie and me!!
 
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