Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
What can cause bloody diarrhea and vomiting in dogs? Duke is a 7-year-old gentle giant. He loves life and his family. Duke’s life was great until one Saturday morning he started vomiting blood. Duke’s mom took him to a vet right away. They ran a blood panel, but everything looked good except for a high red blood cell count. The…
This story kind of reminds me of my dad’s quick demise after simple food poisoning. Boney, a Lab, and Clyde a Doxy were housemates. Everything started with Boney getting diarrhea. She had to go so urgently that she messed in the house, which she never does. To help her belly settle down, she got boiled rice and egg for dinner.…
Why does it matter what your dog’s poop looks like? The longer I’ve been a dog mom, the more attention I’ve learned to pay to poop. It started with Jasmine who had ongoing poop issues from the day she came to us. After years of being left in the dark, she was finally diagnosed with IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease). Every…
Dietary indiscretion is an extremely common cause of diarrhea in dogs. Dogs are perfectly happy to eat anything that fits in their mouth, particularly when is smells good. Note: what smells good to a dog and to a person may or may not be the same thing. Garbage gut diarrhea is often self-limiting, meaning it resolves on its own. There…
Inflammatory bowel disease is a syndrome caused by an immune reaction to chronic irritation of the GI tract. The cause is poorly understood but the result is immune cells infiltrating the tissues of the gastrointestinal tissues. The common theorized causes are chronic parasites, bacterial infections, or food allergies. Symptoms can vary in severity but commonly consist of chronic vomiting, diarrhea…