Hi Everyone!!
I'm new here... I'm trying to solve a mystery that has been going on for over a year now.
Our dog Chops is a 10 year old lab/collie mix and for whatever reason about one day a week just won't eat or drink anything for most of the day. Sometimes he'll kick out of it around 3PM, 6PM or even later and then he wolfs everything down fast.
While he's not eating his stomach sometimes growls loudly, he's super lethargic and then the day afterwards he is super stinky and has very bad bowel movements (no blood though).
We've taken him to the vet 3-4 times since this started and they've run blood panels and done thorough exams with no answers. They're only suggestion is to put a scope through his intestines, but they think that's not going to help and its expensive and very invasive for a 10 year old dog.
For extra info we feed him Wellness Senior Formula dry food and we've also tried doing the yogurt 2x/day to help his digestive system which doesn't seem to have helped in any noticeable way.
Just curious if anyone has any ideas? I'm going to try and get him to a second vet too for another opinion. Just so frustrating since basically he has two days a week where he's not feeling too good and every time we think we're making progress he falls back into the same cycle.
Thanks everyone!!
Josh and Chops
I'm new here... I'm trying to solve a mystery that has been going on for over a year now.
Our dog Chops is a 10 year old lab/collie mix and for whatever reason about one day a week just won't eat or drink anything for most of the day. Sometimes he'll kick out of it around 3PM, 6PM or even later and then he wolfs everything down fast.
While he's not eating his stomach sometimes growls loudly, he's super lethargic and then the day afterwards he is super stinky and has very bad bowel movements (no blood though).
We've taken him to the vet 3-4 times since this started and they've run blood panels and done thorough exams with no answers. They're only suggestion is to put a scope through his intestines, but they think that's not going to help and its expensive and very invasive for a 10 year old dog.
For extra info we feed him Wellness Senior Formula dry food and we've also tried doing the yogurt 2x/day to help his digestive system which doesn't seem to have helped in any noticeable way.
Just curious if anyone has any ideas? I'm going to try and get him to a second vet too for another opinion. Just so frustrating since basically he has two days a week where he's not feeling too good and every time we think we're making progress he falls back into the same cycle.
Thanks everyone!!
Josh and Chops