I honestly don’t think this day could get much worse.
My dog is having anxiety attacks during the night again, after a drug-induced respite of a month or more. So I didn’t sleep well. Last weekend I started cooking for him, since he was apparently starving himself. I’ve been making him a nice tempting casserole of cooked turkey, rice, eggs, carrots, and garlic. He likes it. He eats it.
This morning I woke up to doggy diarrhea all over the living room and hallway carpets. Even as I was cleaning it up, he was producing more. I interrupted my cleaning efforts to get him outside, only to discover huge pools of it at the bottom of the stairs – and of course he walked through it on the way out. I took him to the park, and when we got back I tied him up outside so I could clean up the entranceway before he walked in it again.
After cleaning the mess as best I could (more work will need to be done), I didn’t feel like eating breakfast, nor did I have time. I headed off to work, saw all the neighbours’ recycling boxes, and realized I’d forgotten to put mine out. I went back, got my recycling box off the balcony, and started carrying it out, only to realize it was leaking all over my white shirt. So I had to go back in and change my clothes.
It started pouring rain as I was walking to work, and I didn’t bring my umbrella, so by the time I got here I was cold and wet and my hair looked goofy. It looks even goofier now that it has dried.
I am so not looking forward to whatever I’m going to find when I get back home tonight.
Definitely a bad start to the day.
Oh dear.
Wow, not a nice way to start a new week. I hope things have improved by now
No, unfortunately they’ve gotten worse…I don’t want to be graphically gross, but the diarrhea continues, and now there’s blood in it.
About 4 months before “the end”, my old Lab got blood in her poop too. It was bright red and the vet decided it was probably just due to stress of the diarrhea so after a session of Pepto Bismol and a new diet, it went back to normal. Interestingly, I had been feeding her rice and meat I cooked for a few months just before this started and the vet put her on a special commmercial dog food. Much easier than cooking and better for her bowels, as it turned out. I can’t recall the name of the dog food but it was for old dogs with wonky guts and it worked nicely. Unfortunately, this may be the beginning of the end. Good luck.