GI upset
 

My dog had some soft poops twice and regurgitated twice in the same time frame on Monday. Took to vet Monday and checked out generally and for Pancreatitis. All found ok. He was given a pain killer and Cerenia. And for one day he was fed small meals of rice and Prescription Hills ID Low Fat plus well boiled white rice. For one day after vet visit and GI events he was fine. Then early this morning, wednesday, he did lots of poops that were well formed but two of them were softer, but not runny.
Is it usual for a dog to have big poops after day of eating and no poops?
Thank you.
I have a call into the vat and await a call back.

GI upset update
 

Vet just called and said a lot of poop is not a bad thing, all other things being ok. Probably I was feeding more often than usual and his gut motility was increasing. He has eaten at five this am and so far no poops or regurgitation.
Also he has never had runny or bloody poop. So I guess just a GI upset. I wonder if any of you have had issues with dogs licking or eating grass that has been treated with fertilizers etc? We live in a community where they do treat grass. I thought my dog could not consume enough chemicals to harm him. Any comments on this are very welcome, as it is hard to stop him sniffing and sometimes eating grass. I am very careful to stop him eating outside stuff and of course in the home. He does not eat people food only his Prescription low fat ID food.

My girl has had pancreatitis twice and now all she can eat is prescription ID. She has had no further events and it has been about 2 years.

Pancreatitis
 

Thank you.
My dog had a mild P case a few years ago and has been on Hills Prescription ID Low Fat kibble and sometimes canned ever since, and been fine. When he had this last upset I thought it was P and he had the full test and was found not to have P. So I could not imagine why he had this event. I have been so careful to feed the prescribed diet with no treats etc and have kept him well.
Then I saw the community gardeners spreading granules of fertilizer and wonder if grass care chemicals could have got into his system via mouth or paws. He does sometimes sniff or lick grass until I am able to stop him.
I wondered if anyone else had this thought or perhaps experience of unexplained fairly minor GI issues?

Bump
 

Please let me know if anyone has had thoughts on the grass contamination idea?

Grass toxins?
 

Please read my GI upset thread and if anyone has comments on the possible toxicity of grass fertilizers etc for small pets? I am really concerned as a few dogs in my area who frequent the same parks and grass seem to have GI upsets with no explanation.

Never let your dog walk let alone eat, lick grass that has been fertilized, or chemically treated. If they walk in treated grass and lick their feet they are ingesting the chemical which is highly toxic even in small amounts.

Grass
 

Thank you. I always take my dog on a short leash and try and stop him licking grass etc., but the communities I walk him in do not tell me when they are adding toxins to the grass. I always also try and wash his feet after a walk. He never goes out the door alone. The vet seemed surprised that my dog could get enough grass toxin to make him sick, and I must say I though that the minor exposure my dog got would not be harmful. But after this event, I could not see what else could have made him sick.
He often will only poop if I take him onto grass, otherwise I keep to a relatively clean concrete path.
I only thought the grass toxins may be an issue when I saw a gardener spreading fertilizer granules, and also heard of another dog that had recently got sick for a day after walking in the park.
I wondered if others had similar experiences and thank you for your helpful input. It seems our small furbabes are very sensitive to small amounts of toxic chemicals. I sure will be much more careful from now on. Again, thank you for your input. I also thought I might not be alone in having the grass issue and it might help others to raise the point.

Gosh, it could be from anything after going for a walk, ya know? As in - some kind of GI bug, parts of a decaying baby bird or something, parts of a decaying bird egg (dogs love these!), organic (and safe) flower bed food...so who really knows for sure...?

As long as she is not violently ill, you kind of are forced to ride these things out. If I were super, super worried - then I'd be giving a lot of water and activated charcoal to absorb anything nasty (just know that if you do give this, it can turn the stools black).

Is she eating and drinking and everything...? Energy level okay?

Worried about my boy
 

Hello.
Thanks for your comforting reply. I awaken at three am this am to find another gift of formed but softish poop on the bathroom pad. In spite of taking him for a walk at 8 pm after his last meal last night, when he only peed.
Yes it could be many things that caused this illness, but I am so worried about him as he does not normally do poops in the night and is very healthy. He is on one Cerenia a day and Pepcid at night and morning. He has never had real diarrhea and after the first day, Monday, has not thrown up. I have been feeding him only Hills ID Low Fat canned plus a little boiled rice in small meals and he is hungry! The vets don't seem concerned, but I am! He is more sleepy but comes to life when anything happens here that stirs him! But I am finding it so hard to be up at three and worried all the time about what ails him. I was glad he checked out ok at the vet exam and that he did not have Pancreatitis. So don't know if to ride it out or get him into the vet again, especially with a holiday weekend nearly upon us. How I hate seeing a sick pet and can't seem to make him better.
Thanks again for your understanding and compassion.

I just want to offer you my sympathy for what you and your baby are going through. I completely understand how nerve-racking these things can be from personal experience. Not the exact same problem though. Hope things turn around for the better and soon!

GI
 

Thank you so much for your kind words from one who understands. He seems to be behaving normally this morning after eating his breakfast at 5 am! I am the one suffering now and not hungry!
Hope your baby is better now and I pray mine is! But I don't like it if the new normal poop time is 3 am!! Then I wake up, ugh!

My pup had a recent ( and only) pancreatitis flare and I find myself watching her like a hawk and interpreting everything as a possible catastrophe. I'm getting better with that, but our babies are so precious to us we automatically dote!

So I understand all your concerns! You are a great Yorkie mom!

Gi
 

Thank you too for your kindness. One dose of the big P and we Yorkie moms go Gaga. But when it was not P I don't know what to think or worry about!

I'm glad your pup checked out okay and didn't have pancreatitis. Pups do get upset tummies and bowels occasionally and it is of concern. The one time our pup did the vet told us no food or water for several hours, begin with teaspoons of water and if that's kept down add boiled chicken and rice for a day before reintroducing kibble. Our only problem was that our pup loved the boiled chicken a little too much and became a mooch for a couple of days. We were never able to pinpoint the cause but it was likely something she ate. We watch her even more closely now when outside.


It can take the bowels a couple of days to normalize as the water balance was out of whack and their food changed. Hope it all levels out for you and your pup.

Thanks
 

Thank you. I see I am not alone. And that our furbabes can get mystery illnesses, even though we take great care of them and what they ingest. Thanks for the encouragement that it takes time to recover from the upset. I hope he gets better soon or I will get sick from worry! He is sleeping after gobbling down his breakfast and leaving me stressed out. I am sure he will be fine and thanks for your good wishes and support.

Dog food
 

My 2 yorkies had runny poops. They have been on the hills I'd and that helped. Still on the I'd wet food and I am giving them royal canin dry mini for sensitive stomach. They like the taste. Poop is normal. I also give the probiotic. That helps. I use the forti flora one. I bet my dogs licked bird poop or something that got them messed up. Have to watch everything they eat.

Two dogs
 

Thanks for your reply. So sorry your two had the runny poops, dealing with one dog was bad enough, but two??? Glad they are doing better now and that your food etc regimen is working. Yes it is possible my boy had a sly lick at something he shouldn't. They can be fast! The trouble is I don't have a yard with grass in my condo and have to go into a park or community for walks etc. He won't do his business unless he is on grass! So I have no control of what is hidden on the ground. All I can do is look hard and hope. I even called my local City Parks dept and asked them to look into toxins they put on the grass etc.
Anyway. Thanks for your comments and experiences. I think my boy is ok now and I am keeping him on the Hills ID Low Fat canned for a while. Then I will slowly try to covert to his usual ID kibble.

Dog food
 

My friend Kim and I are looking into good healthy foods for our yorkies. Now they are back to normal poop .

Good news
 

So happy to hear your babies are back to normal again. Good luck with the food search. As my boy had Pancreatitis once I have to only fed him Hills ID Low Fat. He has done well on it so far apart from this last upset..

Just seeing this. Hoping Austin had licked his tummy problems.

Lisaly got me to start Tibbe on probiotics and they changed his life. He's a hopeless forager outside and had unlimited bouts like you described until I started him on a supply sweet Lisa sent me! Once we used that up, I was a believer a kept Tibbe in constant supply. Uses 1/4 tsp. over his food daily. He's not been off them since and had no bouts of nausea, soft poops or frank diarrhea since he began them. Once since he started them he retched as if he were going to throw up but didn't and for a Yorkie, that is so amazing considering how he spent his first few years of life w/constant tummy issues.

Austin, we're praying and pulling for you!!!

Probs
 

Hi. Thank you for the suggestion. No I haven't given Austin probiotics so far. Austin rarely has these upsets and I think the prescription Hills ID that I always feed him may have them in the food. But I will look into it. Thank you. Great that Tibbe has benefitted from them. I have IBS and I think that PBs help me, so I am a convert.
I will answer your other post in a PM so I don't hijack the flood thread.
Thank you again for your concern, good wishes and suggestions, grealy appreciated. Good to talk with you again too. 😄 Take care both of you.

Jeanie
 

Hi.
Just see that these are not in the TX threads! My mind is not good with all the sleepless nights etc.
Austin also is a forager and I have to watch his sniffing constantly, but he seems to need to do that to choose a peeing and pooping spot!
He seems fine with eating etc but still poops out a full days food at 3 am instead of his usual poops on day walks. He also barks and wakes me up. After that I can't sleep as I am concerned about him. The poop is well formed if a little soft, but that could be the wet canned ID food. I am still concerned and will take him back to the vet if anything else happens. But the vet seems to think it just needs time for him to heal from whatever he got into. Obviously not serious on the face of it as he has never had real runny poop, but I do worry.
So sad for Linda's babies. She is a wonderful mom to her babies..

The canned Hill's ID used to give Tibbe diarrhea and even now softens his stools when the vet feeds him that when he's there. Hoping Austin continues to recover. Keep us posted and know we are hoping and praying he clears on up. Keep us posted. Try not to worry - Yorkies and their GI issues seems to be a neverending story but you can't help but worry when they are not right.

Poor Linda! Losing little Matty just before all that horror had to be a nightmare and then little Olivia doing so badly. All while every where she turns is one horror story after the other, destruction and her city so disrupted. Got to be the most depressing time for her. Lord, life is tough.

GI
 

Thanks so much Jeanie. Your reply is very comforting. I wondered if the canned ID LFat was doing it. I am now soaking the ID LFat kibble and putting small amounts in with the canned to see if that helps. The vet just called as I had requested and is giving me more Cerenea in case I need it, but I don't think so as he has been fine today, eating with no vomiting since Monday am. She is also giving some doggie Keopectate to firm up the stool. I asked now as it is a holiday weekend.
She said he is still healing and is doing very well. So I am calming down a bit now. He is fine, but I am a more difficult customer!!!!
My hubby wonders what all the fuss is about as he thinks all is going according to plan. But I always assume the worst!!! These dogs sure do have delicate tummies.
I feel for poor Linda and her loss and sick Olivia, what an ordeal with all that is going on around her too. Praying that Olivia gets over her issues and makes her mom feel better too.
I also hope little Tibbe is doing well and continues to beat the odds and gets to be 20 plus at least!
Please take care of yourself sweet girl and thanks for your kindness and support.
Warmest wishes,
Dottie and the Yorky Terror.
😍🌻🐾🐕

Olivia
 

So sorry Lady Jane. You must be devastated. Hugs and healing thoughts and prayers.
Just read your sad post elsewhere.

GI update
 

My boy seems better today and went thru the nite with no poops. First in a week!! Ate his breakfast and no longer on Cerenea and I pray he is on the mend now. I will continue the smaller meals and light diet for a while. Thanks for all your support and comfort. I was really concerned.
I wish all in Tx and La were in better shape. I do so feel for all who are in this horrible situation. Prayers for them.

When Cali was in the doggie ICU recently they gave her the canned ID and it caused pretty soft stools, but when we tried the kibble ID her poos are perfect.

Yorkiemini
 

Thank you for your kind input. Good to have the experience of others.
I have now added rice and softened ID kibble and stopped the Cerenia and any meds and his one poop today was much better. So it looks like he is getting over what ever ailed him. I hope tonight is poop free also and no early morning calls!
Gradually I will return to his regular hard ID kibble via increasing the amount of softened ID kibble gradually to the rice and canned ID. Certainly he seems hungry and back to his normal feisty self. Yeh!