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**Pakarufus** - vet question
First of all, I want to think you for all your advice on my seemingly chronically ill puppy. I feel blessed to have you able to put my mind at ease.
Second, I have a question. Chloe is on 2 antibiotics, septra ds and flagyl. I know that antibiotics in general can cause soft stool. Her liquid diarrhea resolved on Friday (almost 12 hrs after starting her antibiotics) and so she's been having soft stool, which does not surprise us.
What does surprise us is that starting Saturday, she would drag her butt on the carpet (I'm assuming because she was so irritated from the diarrhea - the vet said her rectum looked a little red). I gave her a rimadyl to maybe provide a little relief. Anyway, it seems like she just leaves little pieces of poop after she gets up once and a while. Or when she sits on her butt to scratch her chin with her hind leg, she leaves a spot on the carpet.
Do you think that this will resolve when she is finished antibiotics? I thought it might have been the bland food diet (the vet recommended the Science Diet Digestive Low Fat) because it's the nasty wet food, but we started her back on the wet Beneful, that we always mix her cranberry with (in addition to her regular science diet crunchy food). It's still happening but less frequently. I can't imagine that at 2 years old and after 1 episode of horrible diarrhea (really, she whined when I took her out at 2am on Thursday - it broke my heart) that she would be having incontinence problems.
Thank you so much for listening to my rambling paranoia. It's nice to have a professional opinion where Chloe's not just another patient (although, really, that's probably how she is to you, just one you never see!!) and I can be totally honest about my paranoia.
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Re: **Pakarufus** - vet question
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
Definatley get her anal glands checked, that could be the spots she's leaving. As for the poop she is leaving, her rectum is probably just so irritated that she can't "close" properly for now. That should resolve within a few days. Hope she feels better soon!
Okay, thanks! I'll get her glands checked ASAP.
And Hayley, I do wipe her!! I told Adam last night, I never in a million years thought I'd be wiping my 2 year old dog's butt. She never has any chunks left, it's just dirty (not sure why, maybe the gland thing), so I wipe it with a wet paper towel or a cottonelle wipe and so that's helped with the random nasties on the carpet.
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."