[katy-yorkie]

Originally Posted by Sweet Apple

I can, certainly, understand what you are going through...it's agonizing, at best...Hopefully, I'm on the tail end of the same issue, w/my Apple...I still don't, really, know what caused Apple to have this gastroenteritis issue...Everything is suspect w/me...toxic plant seeds (hibiscus), sudden food allergy, intolerance to raw, mis-handled bully sticks, possibly IBS (?) etc. I'd sure keep a close eye on your little Maggie for dehydration...It did take Apple a few days to get her energy level up, after each episode...She had two major episodes, so we've been dealing w/this since January 23rd (one ER visit, two vet visits)...Is your pup on a bland diet? Apple's vet put her on hill's RX i/d, and told me not to give her anything, whatsoever, until we are, totally, sure her intestines are completely healed, and then add one thing, at a time, verrrry slowly, back into her diet, to see if anything she was eating may have caused this issue...Apple used to eat so many things, ie. blueberries, spinach leaves, all different kinds of treats, and she was on primal raw....However, she has been on all these things, for 2 yrs., w/no issues, so this is going to be a very slow process of elimination, IF it is a food issue...At first, the bland diet, for my Apple, was to be for a week, but has been exended to two more weeks (from her last episode)...She's been doing really well, but did have a tiny amount of an orange jelly like substance at the end of her stool, yesterday, so I don't know what that's about? Hope this wasn't too much to read, but just wanted you to know my experience, w/this horrible thing, and hope you can glean some info to help your little Maggie get all better too...Keep us posted...
Maggie (that's me lol) & Apple

I did read your thread after Linda told me about it. I'm surprised I missed it as Maggie has been having blood in her stools since last November. In November, it was the dark brown, almost black stool but now it is bright red and really no stool, just blood. The vet did put her on the EN diet, it is bland, he did not say how long, but I will keep her on it until I know she is better. I do have Hibiscus in the back yard, I asked if it could be from one of the plants, but he really didn't know. I found a snake in the yard Sunday in an area she sometimes likes to go, but I don't think it was that. She has been fine since December, maybe I didn't give her enough time to get better. It is agonizing, I know there is something wrong when only blood comes out. But other than that and not eating, she is herself. Now that I think about it, she didn't seem to drink much water over the week-end. While we were out I was offering water to them and she didn't want any. Again...Agonizing.