Duke Needed An Enema!

poconogal · 09-22-2007, 10:28 AM

I've posted about Duke, my now almost year old, not wanting to poop outside, but instead walking into the house and pooping. Well, I guess he decided not to poop anywhere, since he didn't for about 36 hours. Had to take him for an emergency appointment to the vet yesterday. He was x-rayed and he had plenty o' poop in his colon, 4 meals worth! They kept him for several hours while the enema they gave him did its de-pooping job, for $150!!! Oh, my husband and I tried using baby suppositories the day before, but wow, there was NO way that suppository was going anywhere near his butt... LOL!!! It is amazing to see exactly how strong his 3 inch tail is, too! So last night he got some canned pumpkin after his dinner. He had breakfast this morning and... no poop yet.

MissPhoebe · 09-22-2007, 11:11 AM

Ok, so I just read that to my husband and he said... "mannnnn, just hearing that makes me want to go!" Ugh. Men! Poor Duke. I hope that Duke goes outside soon, takes a deep breath and works some magic. Phoebe amonst other issues, will NEVER pee or poo on a long walk but as soon as we get home, she races to the back yard and does her thing. Phoebe is going to her fav vet today for what I think is an ear infection (stinky ear and lots of ear flappin'). I love my dog and my vet loves my check book.

Julie W · 09-22-2007, 01:34 PM

Prunes work wonders also. About 4-5 prunes will move a 36 pound whippets colon well without giving diarreah. You can adjust for the size of your dog.

tjmom · 09-22-2007, 07:57 PM

Poor baby. I'm sure for Duke the $150 was money well spent. He must have had one bad belly ache.

Yeah - it is very surprising how they can tuck their little nubs and not let you near their back side if they don't want you back there.

poconogal · 09-23-2007, 01:01 PM

Duke finally pooped yesterday, without anymore enemas. On our deck, oh well... at least that's outside. And this morning he pooped... yep... outside. I think we're making some headway! (I hope).

The puzzling thing is that he used to do all his business outside, but stopped after we had to kennel both our dogs for 2 days. We had a behavioralist/trainer over yesterday. She seems to feel that something happened at the kennel so that he is now associating pooping outside with not being a good thing. The kennel comes highly recommended, we've had our other dogs there and they and we were happy, and the trainer also uses this same kennel, so, who knows... Plus he's a rescue and we only have him about 1-1/2 months now, too... so maybe an adjustment period for pooping!

Hope Phoebe's ear is better, poor girl. Didn't mean to upset your hubby... LOL!!!

Dobemom2b · 09-23-2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by poconogal

The puzzling thing is that he used to do all his business outside, but stopped after we had to kennel both our dogs for 2 days. We had a behavioralist/trainer over yesterday. She seems to feel that something happened at the kennel so that he is now associating pooping outside with not being a good thing.

I have a friend who had her dog kenneled for vacation, while at the kennel their were several dogs turned loose at a time for supervised play time with other friendly dogs. During one of these play sessions, her dog needed to go potty, she went off to the side of the area and proceded to do her thing. In the middle of it another dog ran and broad sided her playing chase with another dog. This dog hit her hard enough to completly knock her off her feet and into the chainlink fence kinda squishing her into the fence.

For a very long time she was leary of seeing any other dog when outside and refused to use the bathroom if there was a chainlink fence in sight. The kennel did tell her about it when she picked her dog up the next day and they all kind of laughed it off. When she started going in the house instead of the chainlink fenced back yard it finally dawned on them how tramatic this had been for her dog. She started letting her out in the front yard that has a wooden picket type fence and although she waited until she was positive no other dog would ambush her and took more time than they wanted she did go out front. It took her months to get her back to being comfortable in the back yard, partially because it was chainlink and partially because the dogs next door were outside most of the time.

poconogal · 09-23-2007, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Dobemom2b

I have a friend who had her dog kenneled for vacation, while at the kennel their were several dogs turned loose at a time for supervised ply time with other friendly dogs. During one of these play sessions, her dog needed to go potty, she went off to the side of the area and proceded to do her thing. In the middle of it another dog ran and broad sided her playing chase with another dog. This dog hit her hard enough to completly knock her off her feet and into the chainlink fence kinda squishing her into the fence.

For a very long time she was leary of seeing any other dog when outside and refused to use the bathroom if there was a chainlink fence in sight. The kennel did tell her about it when she picked her dog up the next day and they all kind of laughed it off. When she started going in the house instead of the chainlink fenced back yard it finally dawned on them how tramatic this had been for her dog. She started letting her out in the front yard that has a wooden picket type fence and although she waited until she was positive no other dog would ambush her and took more time than my sister wanted she did go out front. It took her months to get her back to being comfortable in the back yard, partially because it was chainlink and partially because the dogs next door were outside most of the time.

Thanks, Dobemom. So something like that could have happened to Duke. He's still very puppy like and dog friendly, and I've already seen that his reaction when he was attacked by another dog was to stand there and look puzzled, not like my GSD who would go after the attacker and finish the fight if allowed.