I think Midnight has a problem. As you can probably guess from the title of this post I think Midnight might be constipated. She normally poops about four times a day, but today she’s only gone in the morning and no matter how many times I’ve taken her out today she hasn’t gone.
Oh she’s tried. She’s paced and paced in circles on the lawn out front, but hasn’t produced anything. The one time it looked like she was going to be successful a neighbor came outside their house and called out to me. Great timing. Midnight stopped trying and had to go over and great the neighbor.
Then once we were back on the boulevard for another try another neighbor came by with their dog – just as I was becoming frustrated with Midnight and yelling “GO POOP!” at her. Naturally, Midnight stopped her pacing and went to play with the other dog -stealing his leash handle and making it look like she was going to take him for a walk!
Midnight has a few really good “doggy” friends in the neighborhood and this dog (a lab collie mix) is one of them. So as they played I talked to the other dogs owner. Trying to explain why I was frustratedly telling my dog to poop. LOL Hopefully he understood! We’ve talked several times about our dogs. He’s a very nice guy, but I hate to say this … he kind of needs to look into treatment for acne scars. His face is really pockmarked. sad really as he’s a nice looking man otherwise.
In total I’ve been out with Midnight approximately five times today, for a total of maybe 2.5 to 3 hours! A few walks and trips just outside the house haven’t helped her at all. Plus when Chris just came home from work I told him she was having trouble so he took her for yet another walk. He just got back a few minutes ago and all she did was pee.
She’s had a few other days where she’s been like this over the last week. She’s always caught up to her normal amount of deification by late evening, but this time I don’t think she will. I’m more used to her having the opposite problem, this is something new for her.
Fellow dog owners … has your dog ever been constipated? Is there anything I can give her to help her go? Maybe a fruit or veggie. I seem to remember reading about people giving pumpkin to their dogs but I can’t remember if that was for loose stool or constipation.
I only have experience with the opposite 🙁
Hi Tricia.
Dogs all have their ups and downs. If all else is OK with midnight I would not worry. I’m sure all will come out in the end!
If she is being sick etc that is a different matter, or not eating along with being constipated. Our girls are always doing one thing or another to make me worry. Nature will take its course in a day or so.
4 or 5 times a day is quite a lot anyway. You may just find she is starting to get into a less regular habit. Our pup Jet goes surprisingly little compared to the other two.
I hope there really is no problem with midnight. I’m sure there would be other manifestations if there was a problem.
I hope your dog has relieved herself by now. We had this problem once, and it turned out that our dog had an intestinal blockage.
3 days and $1200 later, he was just fine.
Never had that problem with Webster. But Webster loves the taste of olive oil and likes to lap it up after we’ve eaten our salad. :-/ Go figure. Hope all is back to normal soon.
Not sure if taking human over the counter drugs work for this situation, but it did for my dogs itching problem. I gave him benadryl and it worked. Like I said not sure if this goes with other problems.
Ron if Benadryl helped your dogs itching your dog probably had an allergy. Maybe you should examine his diet and see if there are some food items in it that dogs are commonly allergic too such as wheat or corn.
Midnight, that’s a cute name…!
Don’t worry to much it can happen even to us, but of course for just a few days after that it’s indeed alarming. my dog Goofy had the same problem once and i gave him Benadryl, but consult first the vet.