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Old 03-13-2014, 04:10 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Ellie May View Post
I'm not a vet, but I am a pre-vet student (does that count for anything?). I've spent many hundreds of hours seeing my mentor's patients with her. All I can say is that four months of blood in the stool is very, very unhealthy. Imagine if this was a human! Would your own doctor wait this long to send you for a second look?

There may or may not be a specific diagnosis to be had, but it can almost always be symptomatically managed. There are many other things to be tried and tested for.
I totally agree with this. It's not acceptable that your vet has "kept the case" without helping your dog. Go to an internist or another vet. You don't need a vet school necessarily.
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