Poor Redders has the runs...

**Burns** · 09-25-2007, 10:18 AM

I'm not sure what caused it but we had to take Red out in the middle of the night twice last night due to diarrhea.

The first time was 3:45am and he was whining in his crate, and at first I thought he was whining at the cat who seemed to be aggrevating him by sitting just outside his crate staring at him, but after a few more minutes of whining, I finally decided he may need to go out. So I let him outside but I couldn't tell what he was doing out in the dark yard, but I assumed he either had to pee or poop really bad - which NEVER happens in the middle of the night for him. He came right back in and went straight back to his crate and laid down. ok, everything's cool, time to go back to sleep.

Then at 6:30am, he started whining again. We shushed him for about 10 minutes or so because we just thought he wanted to go outside and play now. But he wouldn't stop whining so my hubby got up this time to let him out. Apparently he was just in time because he came back into the bedroom to tell me that Red had a massive diarrhea all over the garage floor, he just couldn't hold it anymore.

I felt sooo bad for Red! Here we were telling him to shut up and go back to sleep, and he was sick and miserable with diarrhea and needed to go outside! It was horrible watery, mucousy diarrhea - and I almost threw up twice trying to clean it up - and remember, I work at a vet clinic and have had to clean some really nasty stuff.

He's acting normally and ate his breakfast. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary. Hopefully it doesn't continue. He is going to be alone here in his crate for 4 hours today between my hubby and my work schedule so hopefully he doesn't have to go within that time frame! He's a really good dog though, he easily could've gone in his crate but he didn't. He's NEVER had an accident in his crate, and I am so thankful for that.

DobeGirl07 · 09-25-2007, 10:32 AM

Poor Red, I hope he feels better real soon. I feel so bad when dogs have diarrhea. I hurts me to even watch it...

hbwright · 09-25-2007, 10:35 AM

Poor little guy. I've done that before and you do feel like such a bad mommy. Jordan has gotten the runs from too much marrow in a bone or something and if I'm not careful we'll end up outside a couple times in a night.

Julie W · 09-25-2007, 10:43 AM

Poor guy. I'm sure he'll feel better soon. Canned pumpkin and kaopectate can help I suppose, but I feel that usually a quick bout of the runs just needs to work itself out (so to speak). I normally skip a meal if somebody has diarrhea to give the intestinal tract a little break and let it stop itself up.

**Burns** · 09-25-2007, 10:44 AM

Thanks guys

I think maybe I gave him too many treats last night... we were playing hide and seek (our fun tracking game) and I'd give him a "jackpot" when he'd find me. I didn't think it was THAT many treats, but I guess something just didn't sit right with him.

I just talked to my hubby on the phone and he feels sooo bad about this morning too. We've definitely learned from this experience that if Red is whining in the middle of the night, it's for a damn good reason!

Dobemom2b · 09-25-2007, 11:21 AM

Get well soon!

**Luvbirds59** · 09-25-2007, 11:29 AM

must be that never ending treat ball!!!

I hope he feels better, Petey occasionally get bouts with his raw feeding...usually after too much organ meat or we try something new. He has gotten me up at night too. Usually it passes in just a day. Last week he had it bad, I tried kibble again.....I'll never learn.

Carol
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**Burns** · 09-25-2007, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Luvbirds59

must be that never ending treat ball!!!

I thought about that too! But he didn't really eat any of the Everlasting Treat, though he did get most of the treats out of the middle - I think I put 5 or 6 in there. Plus the treats he got from hide-and-seek... I can't think of what else it would be

Hopefully he'll be ok now... tomorrow he'll be in his crate for a long time, though I'm hoping hubby can come home on lunch to check on him and let him out. Being a worry-wart mom, I guess.

**Luvbirds59** · 09-25-2007, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Burns

I thought about that too! But he didn't really eat any of the Everlasting Treat, though he did get most of the treats out of the middle - I think I put 5 or 6 in there. Plus the treats he got from hide-and-seek... I can't think of what else it would be

Hopefully he'll be ok now... tomorrow he'll be in his crate for a long time, though I'm hoping hubby can come home on lunch to check on him and let him out. Being a worry-wart mom, I guess.

I used to get my mom to come over and let him out of the crate too...especially if he was a little off. It might just be a stomach thing. During Petey's stomach problems when he was young....I would use Kaopectate and give him boiled chop-meat and rice....both would firm him up enough to make it through a crate day.

Carol

**Burns** · 09-25-2007, 12:10 PM

Thanks for the advice, Carol. If he still seems off this afternoon, I'll try the Kaopectate - do you happen to know a cheater dose for that? I'm completely clueless about the meat stuff though. What meat do you use and how do you cook it? And you just mix it with cooked brown rice?