I keep telling you guys to stop being "stool gazers."
In all honesty, if we had bigger dogs that went to the bathroom outside, we wouldn't be "examining" their stools every time they went to the bathroom...
How would you like someone doing that to you???
My vet said that more people get upset about their dog's poop than any other thing he can think of.... they have hard stools, soft stools round stools, square stools, yellow stools, light stools, dark stools, and stools with every imaginable thing in them that a dog can eat, etc. etc. etc. and 99% of the time there is never any problem at all. Instead what we should be more concerned with is --- is our dog eating, drinking, going to the bathroom, feeling good, being active, playful, and happy.....(most of the time - because dogs have bad days too!)
Some few things, of course - like blood in the stools for more than a day or two or constipation and diarrhea that last for more than a day or two - or worms that we can see should be checked on.......
I just pick it up and flush it down the toilet and try not to look at it....
I would notice the things that I mentioned above, but usually it's just poop.
Carol Jean |