My dog is a 6 year old Bassett hound. He has had symptoms of IBS and colitis since we brought him home at 8 weeks old. He’s been on numerous limited diet ingredient foods with no luck. Finally the vet put him on a prescription diet, Hills digestive care I/d. Being on this food has helped improve him symptoms but they are still present. He has frequent bowel movements, straining when having a bowel movement. When we go on walks he has frequent bowel movements, the first couple of BMs are solid and then towards the end of the walk they are watery with mucus present. He then will stop and rub his butt in the grass. My question is, is it wise to switch him from the prescription food? The food is very expensive and I’m not even seeing his symptoms go away. I was thinking of switching to earth born coastal catch food. I’m nervous to do this because his last flare up caused him to have blood in his stool. Should I switch?

Our dog is a 6year old papillon For several months she has had colitis we have spent several thousand dollars at the vet and they can not stop it She has never had food allergies, nothing has changed her stress level, the vet says no parasites. We have worked her. They have her on a special canned food diet with probiotics and prednisone. Yet diarrhea persists every few hours

My dog (and the other 3) had diarrhea and were treated with antibiotics. Clostridium was found in the smear. All recovered but my youngest (1.5 yrs) now has diarrhea again and is only slightly improving with a second round of antibiotics. He was dewormed the first time and the vet found nothing in the second smear and float. Is playful and acting normal with good appetite and water ingestion. Any thoughts on what this is?

We adopted my dog a year ago so we don’t really know too much about his background. Every month or two, he gets watery diarrhea that he can’t control and it usually lasts 24 hours. We took him to the vet 7 months ago for it because blood was coming out and they did a stool sample and said everything was normal. They wanted to do a liver test but said it wasn’t completely needed so we skipped it. He was good for 6 months after the vet visit, however in February it happened again and it happened again last night. It usually only happens for a night or two at the worst and he experiences no other symptoms so I don’t know what to do! He’s on the same food we were given at the pound we adopted him from.

For the past week she hasn’t been eating her dog food, or she’ll eat it very slowly (over the course of hours). She’s had colitis in the past, and she was treated for it, so we’re vigilant. I’ve seen nothing wrong with her stools, and while she’s is lethargic, it’s not as drastic as the last time.

Our girl ate 3 lemon cupcakes one had frosting. That night, diarrhea. The next day, stool was fine. Suddenly the stool is back to diarrhea. Dog needs to go out every 2 hours, suddenly panting and pacing, whining to go out. When walking, she will have one poop with very little coming out. Mucus like consistency, color ranging from translucent yellow, orange, to normal poop colors, bits with red bloody mucus. She will try a few more times on the walk to go, and nothing else will come out. After a few tries, she's done and back to her normal self. She's running, jumping, playing with toys, wanting attention and affection. Has great appetite still but was recommended to fast for 24-48 hours then provide a bland diet of boiled chicken and rice for 3 days after, gradually adding kibble back into it. We will see if it works or if what she has isn't colitis.

My dog has began to act of if he is straining to defecate. Other times he will begin to go to the door to go out and as he is walking small pieces of feces will fall out onto the floor. Now he just went out and when he came in, sat down, and finally got up there was blood on the floor. I checked his anal region and it appears as if there is a large cyst of a large hemorrhoid that was not there before. The bleeding was a very short time, one spot. He is not eating and lethargic.

My little Gunner has had no issues in the past though for the last few days he has been having diarrhea multiple times a day with bright red blood. He seems his happy self, though has gone off his dinner tonight even though he usually never says no to food. There was an incident 2 days ago that he had an accident inside when we were out doing shopping. We came home to a mess of mucus and what looked like a small amount of clots of blood. We bought home a puppy a week ago though other than that nothing has changed and he seems to live the puppy. Should I be taking him to the vet?