[Sweet Apple]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

I have had short bouts of bloody stools in pups in the past. They often were just a one time thing. I remember one night waking up to an awful mess. This was many years ago when I lived in NJ. Anyway...middle of the night and off to the vet. By morning the bleeding had stopped. The vet said that Maxwell probably had eaten grass and that a blade of grass had cut his intestines. I told him that he did not eat grass...and was totally baffled about the whole thing. A few days later it hit me what the cause probably had been....I looked up and saw Max eating a sunflower seed. My birds always dropped them outside the cage and Max always ate them. I have never given it much thought. Anyway...I bought a net to prevent the seeds from being tossed out and it never happened again. Was it the seeds? I believe so. If a dog eats something and it makes a small tear in the intestinal wall, there can be bleeding. So, perhaps that is what is going on?? Just a thought. They do eat some funny things outside. I have one that I have to chase out of the mulch...he eats it. Ick

Based on this post, Lin, Apple would fit right in this scenario...Those hibiscus hulls are very sharp, and she was eating at many as she could get away with, before I would grab her up and take her in the house...Btw, she's going out on a leash, now, because she still keeps trying to eat leaves, twigs, clover, and anything she can get in her mouth around...She's always been a hoover...