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Starting with the first heat wave, my dog has had intermittent soft, sometimes mucusy poop. Occasionally diarrhea, but mostly just soft. And he didn’t act himself. Then when the temperature wasn’t extreme, it would go back to being solid and he acted normally again. Until the next heat wave. He just came off two + weeks of things being normal and now we’re back to soft poop and him seeming less with it. His appetite is as always great.
i can understand not feeling as energetic as usual when it’s real hot because not many of us do. I do wonder if this poop issue is a common thing in the heat? I did bring a stool sample but never heard back. Since he went back to normal soon after, I didn’t follow up past one call at which time the test hadn’t been run yet. He does have fleas unfortunately so that’s another thing to tackle.
On the plus side....that lump on his rear end that I thought was a perianal adenoma- apparently wasn’t since it ‘popped’ and there’s no trace of it that I can see (and believe me, before you could see it!) and never seemed to bother him. Cyst? It was always soft. But never interfered with his bathrooming.
I hate what hot weather does to him. I’m just keeping him cool in rooms with A/C or fan. Will try to get a stool sample done again too If it continues.
Susan
i can understand not feeling as energetic as usual when it’s real hot because not many of us do. I do wonder if this poop issue is a common thing in the heat? I did bring a stool sample but never heard back. Since he went back to normal soon after, I didn’t follow up past one call at which time the test hadn’t been run yet. He does have fleas unfortunately so that’s another thing to tackle.
On the plus side....that lump on his rear end that I thought was a perianal adenoma- apparently wasn’t since it ‘popped’ and there’s no trace of it that I can see (and believe me, before you could see it!) and never seemed to bother him. Cyst? It was always soft. But never interfered with his bathrooming.
I hate what hot weather does to him. I’m just keeping him cool in rooms with A/C or fan. Will try to get a stool sample done again too If it continues.
Susan