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The Mystery of the Ghost Pooping Sheltie

Discussion in 'Diseases & Illnesses' started by Margi, Mar 22, 2023.

  1. Margi

    Margi Forums Sage

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    Benson's been doing a weird thing for months. Ghost pooping! He gets in the position to poop, does a poopwalk and nothing comes out. He does this like three times on the walk, then he poops normal. The joke has been he can't tell the difference between a poop and a fart! Since there was never any change in behavior or health I just chalked it up to Benson being Benson.

    On Saturday Benson decided to make my weekend extra special fun by throwing up. Sunday it became apparent he was also severely constipated. After two bad days of straining hard every time he went outside he finally had a fairly normal poop Monday. But I wanted peace of mind and know he didn't have a blockage. I paid the ransom for the urgent care appt so the vet could see him yesterday. I am not complaining mind you--this woman answered my email on a SUNDAY! Dr Amy is a doll.
    Long and short of it is it was a two prong problem. The x rays showed a big block of poop so she did a rectal and tried to examine it. He had eaten something--we know not what. She said, "I don't know how to explain it--White material stuff--like a tampon maybe?" I said, "Look at my face! (meaning all the sags and wrinkles LOL) not a tampon! LOL" She says Well I didn't want to assume :) I said Like the stuffing from a toy? She says Maybe? My guys don't shred toys though! She says yeah shelties for the most part don't. So we are stumped as to what he ate that made him sick, but that explained the vomiting and the constipation.
    However the x ray did solve the ghost poop mystery! It showed his prostate is pushing up against his colon, seriously narrowing it. So he has to strain to get it past that narrow part of the pipe! This means Benson will be getting snipped here pretty quick.
    So the moral of the story is if your sheltie is ghost pooping don't ignore it!
    Signed
    Nancy Drew
     
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  2. Cindy

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    I'm glad you figured it out! Was the blockage removed without surgery?
    I used to joke that Gavin had his peanuts removed (cause he was so little when he was snipped).
     
  3. Margi

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    That poor guy strained and pushed all the material he ate to the end of the colon where Dr Amy literally got it out. Sorry not trying to gross people out! He passed something the size of a ping pong ball before we went in...his face looked like a woman in labor except he didn't yell!
     
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    bet he feels A LOT better now! maybe snuggle time?
     
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    Poor guy! Wonder what he ate?

    Who knew that in our 'older' years, we would spend so much time invested in checking out poop!
     
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    Never a dull moment, right?? They just have to keep us on our toes. I'm very glad Benson is OK and some of the mystery is solved, except for figuring out what he ate!
     
  8. Margi

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    As of now my best guess is something blew in the yard. We have had extremely high winds here for days! My new neighbor has three young boys so its possible something blew in from their yard...no toys are missing stuffing and he isn't a trash hound or tissue shredder.
     
  9. Cindy

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    I have a 6 foot tall privacy fence. I still periodically find cigarette buts, bottle caps, and other small stuff that I have no idea how it got in there. I was lucky that while Gavin was a food hound, he wasn't into eating non-food things. (I think the cigarette buts were probably from my upstairs neighbors occasional MJ habit, but the others.....).
    reminds me I need to weed and pick up the yard, I haven't been out there much for the past 6 weeks.
     
  10. Sharon7

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    Yikes, Cindy something to talk to your upstairs neighbor about - when you get your puppy EVERYTHING will go in his/her mouth. So many dogs here with marijuana poisoning from eating edibles etc while out walking!!
     

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