Help! Black blood and ORANGE-JELLY POOP!
Hi all,
For those who don't know, I run a dog boarding facility. This morning a new client dropped off her 7 year old, underweight, Miniature Poodle- who will be staying with us for 3 days and again in August for 3 weeks.
We meet once before when she brought the dog along, to meet my pack. The dogs got along great; they played, ran around, doing what dogs do! He did seem a little bit underweight when I rubbed him, however, at the time he had an extremely long coat so it was hard to tell how underweight it really was. And anyways, many healthy dogs begin to loose weight when they age.
Except, when she brought him over this morning (fresh from the groomers) I noticed he was severely underweight- painful to look at.
I gave him his kibble (Beneful) which he had no interest in. I added some peanut butter into the mix, and ate it all!
ANYWAYS, I was taking him out for a walk and noticed his urine wasn't really urine... But rather dark blood; as dark as teriyaki sauce/dark red wine. Plus his poop was the size of 25-cent-quarter; it was bright apricot orange and CLEAR (I could see through it), like jello.
I doubt the owner knew the condition of his urine and feces. They were surprised when I said I walk my dogs 3 times a day, as she explained they have never walked him. "We just let him out in the backyard, since no one goes out there".
One of my rescues, a Bichon Frise, had kidney stones which caused blood in his urine- only his was only a few drops of bright red blood and a stream of urine. In this case, there was no urine at all.
Her emergency contact isn't answering and my vet is on vacation.
What should I do?
Take him to the emergency clinic?
Contact HIS vet and ask some questions about his health?
Help, please.
Hi all,
For those who don't know, I run a dog boarding facility. This morning a new client dropped off her 7 year old, underweight, Miniature Poodle- who will be staying with us for 3 days and again in August for 3 weeks.
We meet once before when she brought the dog along, to meet my pack. The dogs got along great; they played, ran around, doing what dogs do! He did seem a little bit underweight when I rubbed him, however, at the time he had an extremely long coat so it was hard to tell how underweight it really was. And anyways, many healthy dogs begin to loose weight when they age.
Except, when she brought him over this morning (fresh from the groomers) I noticed he was severely underweight- painful to look at.
I gave him his kibble (Beneful) which he had no interest in. I added some peanut butter into the mix, and ate it all!
ANYWAYS, I was taking him out for a walk and noticed his urine wasn't really urine... But rather dark blood; as dark as teriyaki sauce/dark red wine. Plus his poop was the size of 25-cent-quarter; it was bright apricot orange and CLEAR (I could see through it), like jello.
I doubt the owner knew the condition of his urine and feces. They were surprised when I said I walk my dogs 3 times a day, as she explained they have never walked him. "We just let him out in the backyard, since no one goes out there".
One of my rescues, a Bichon Frise, had kidney stones which caused blood in his urine- only his was only a few drops of bright red blood and a stream of urine. In this case, there was no urine at all.
Her emergency contact isn't answering and my vet is on vacation.
What should I do?
Take him to the emergency clinic?
Contact HIS vet and ask some questions about his health?
Help, please.
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