Re: Dog Has Black Stool, Eats Lots Of Grass

I was always told that black, _tarry_ stool indicates blood in the stool.
The black tarry stuff is digested blood, which is a sure sign that there's
some kind of damage to the dog's digestive tract and it's bleeding
internally somewhere.

My dogs occasionally poop really dark -- but otherwise normal-looking --
poop, and sometimes the poop is two-tone (starts off really dark, then
becomes more mornal). There's never been a problem with this, and my vet has
told me that it's OK. It's when the poop looks a bit like tar that I was
told to worry.

On occasions when the dogs have battled with diarrhea, they have
occasionally pooped whatever messy stools with obvious streaks of red blood
on them. If the blood on the stool is red, it's undigested. This is usually
from anal irritation from the constant pooping due to the diarrhea.

Chuck


"Melinda Shore" <shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <Fri9AE6769E95063australianshepherdca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rocky <3dogs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday, I had to ask a dog daycare client what he feeds his
French Bulldog. The dog's stools are firm and the darkest--
almost black--I've ever seen. Eukanuba, but he wasn't sure
which version.

I've fed various Eukanubas and they do produce dark poops,
but not ones that look like they've got blood in them. I've
recently discovered that slipping the dogs a few pieces of
beets can produce eyebrow-raising poops.

OP: get yourself to the vet.

Hear, hear.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore@xxxxxxxxx

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community


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