Now before everyone flips out I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE VET AT 6:30 AM. I called my vet on her cell and she is still driving home from being out of town. I am waiting for her to call me back so we can discuss the symptoms.
My pup is a 4 weeks old. She was orphaned, her mother was a victim of animal cruelty.
Her behavior is normal. She does not have a fever. She is eating well. VERY ACTIVE.
We have just started to introduce dry food .. She still gets 3 bottles a day but she is learning to eat the dry food. The dry food does have what appears to be red dye.
Today she pooped a huge poop. It was loose but not too watery. No mucus just appeared to have a little blood in it.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Do you know what the problem could be?
If it were something as serious as Parvo, she would be vomiting up mucus that smells like rotting alfalfa sprouts. The bloody stool comes later. It's probably just the dye in her food. In the past, we always started our puppies out on something like soggy cereal in milk, usually rice crispies or cornflakes, with a little beaten egg thrown in. Now days, I make up home-made brown rice and chicken. It is so much better for the pups and all natural as well. You don't end up with weird dye colors in the stool, and at four weeks, she's not going to eat much. So if you make up a small batch, it'll go far.
Well, one possibility (which you might already know) is parvo. If you catch it early and begin treatment you have a better chance of saving her life.
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As for the food, don't feed her food that has dye in it. It's not good for humans, and it's definitely not good for growing puppies who would normally still be nursing for the most part at 4 weeks old. She needs GOOD nutrition for GOOD health.
its just the same as human babies sometimes. but you should still take her to a vet and get a prescription.
You have a vet appointment for 6:30 am. That's GREAT!
Now that was the RIGHT thing to do.
The WRONG thing to do is to demand that your vet call you back tonight and discuss the symptoms tonight.
The WRONG thing to do is to come here to YA and ask us to tell you all the answers because you're too impatient to wait till the vet sees your dog. We're not vets. We can't physically examine the dog.
The dog needs the exam and you have it scheduled, so do the mature thing and wait till the vet sees the dog. If you absolutely can't wait, go to the emergency vet on call tonight and pay the on-call charges which will be higher than your routine vet care.
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You didn't bother to tell us if you've had the pup in for her first shots yet, so I can't tell if it might be Parvo. -! -
