One of the puppies I bred went off to his new home last weekend a big bouncy puppy, the new owner phoned me to let me know he has had smears of blood in his stool and mentioned it to the vet when he went for his vaccination. Vet could find nothing wrong temp. fine , eating well etc. Suggested they put him on some cans of Hills food and not the Betta puppy he has always been on. Today I was telling someone about this and she said the same thing happened to her new puppy (about 9 years ago) she let the breder know who gave it a tablet which cleared it up. Does anyone have any idea what that may have been or what the problem is with this otherwise big healthy pup ? Non of his littermates have the same.
Ted

Possibly a pill for tapeworms. It's not that common in small puppies to have tapeworms;but not impossible and a vet can't easily tell if a puppy has a tapeworm. Tapeworms could cause some blood in the stool along with slimey-mucus (yuk). It may also be some other type of intestinal worm that the vet may have missed, ie hookworm.
To cure blood in the stool with one tablet would almost have to be something such as tape or hook worms.???????

There was some slimy mucus apparently but I wormed them the week they went with panacure 10% over 3 days and that should do tapeworm. Wormed them at 2 & 4 weeks too.
Ted

a touch off topic but hows the pup that was leaking doing, is anything any better?

When I got Alice 6 yrs ago she had lots of blood in her stools. I was in a panic , and went to vet ,he said her breeder used wormer, which was known to cause bleeding. but it did clear up and as I said she is six now . best wishes Mari

I had the same problem with a full litter of puppies. The only thing I did different to how I normally rear them is feed a 'well known complete brand' I won't say which but needless to say I don't feed it now and have not had any problems since.
One Vet told me the the blood is caused by a small scar in the rectum wall (inside forgot the tec name), whenever the puppy passed a stool the scar was re-opened.
It took about 4 weeks before the blood disappeared completely.
By the way I have still got a bitch from that litter and she is as healthy as a horse.
Don't worry, the pup will be fine.

My breed can get this fairly often when under stress, new home for a puppy etc.
It's called toxcidiosis(spelling?) We treat it over here with pills or liquid albon. Apparently it is an organism that can lie dorment in the puppy/dog until under stress. Some will never show it, some do. The only thing that will clear it up is albon(maybe called something else there).
Puppies appear totally healthy, eating, growing, playing, just blood in the stool. It won't clear up with wormer. Mention it to your vet.

I phoned the new owner today and seems to have stoped now, she is due to worm him again and it will be intersting to see if it reoccurs after that.
Ted

hi ted i have a 10wk old cocker spaniel he has had blood and mucas in his stools.This to like you worried me after reading all the answers you got from others,i took my pup to the vet.What they have is called colitis which is inflamation of the large bowel.The cause of this is rich food i.e. if you feed them treats or to richer dog food.Our vet told us to put him on chicken and rice which you can get from yuor vet in tinned meat form.He said it is common in pups as they eat anything they can find.So dont worry this is treatable by a tempory change in diet then slowly weaning them back on to there own dried food .Hope your pups ok.

I too have a cocker spaniel who is 12 weeks old and come home from work today to find runny poos and blood all over the floor. I took her to the vets who stated that she could have eaten something not too good for her (she is always eating weird things) and she is now in for overnight with a IV drip and antibiotics. Poor thing, she lost 500 grams in one day. I will look at introducing soft food into her diet as she only has dried puppy food (and has had lots of treats over the lat 2 days maybe the reason for her bloody stools). Hope that your cocker is getting better.

I have a two month old male cocker puppy.  He was diagnosed two weeks ago with toxcidiosis (spelling) and given the oral Albon.  Well two weeks later he still have runny stools.  They have now put him on a pill form of Albon and something else that starts with 'MET'.  I'm not sure what it is.  He seems happy and healthy...also my 7 month old cocker is starting to have soft stools.  I talked with the breeder and she said that she deworms them ever 2 weeks for several months (which we were not told at the time of purchase)..could that be the problem?  Wouldn't a fecal float show tape/hook worms or is that something they need to test specifically for....HELP!

My Cav occasionally had attacks of colitis, particularly when extremely excited at a show. He was ok after starving for 24 hours and then feeding chicken and rice, and has been fine since changing to JWB. But they were right to get the puppy to the vet. It's probably stress from changing homes, I hope he's ok soon. :-)