u/duraraross

My dog is a ~25 lb, 11-15 years old (rescued as an adult 9 years ago, unsure of age but she is genuinely as spry as ever) mixed breed. It is currently 2 PM on Friday, May 1st, and she has been having (completely controllable) diarrhea since early Thursday morning/late Wednesday night. Her behavior hasn’t changed in the slightest, nor has her appetite. The diarrhea isn’t constant or uncontrollable. In fact, I have to walk her around for a while before she decides to do it. She’s done it about three times now:

4 AM Thursday

2 PM Thursday

1 PM Friday (today)

These aren’t odd times as my schedule is a bit more nocturnal, so it’s not like she woke me up in the middle of the night to go, these are during normal outside times for us. There has been no normal poop in between this diarrheas, but plenty of pee. Her behavior hasn’t changed, she’s not lethargic, and she isn’t allowed any human food. She occasionally gets very small pieces of apple or carrot, but nothing else that isn’t her vet prescribed dog food. However, she is a scrounger and vacuums up anything edible she can find on the floor.

Possibly relevant or not information: in August of last year she had vomiting and diarrhea (much more watery than this), so I took her to the vet and she had very acute pancreatitis, which was quickly cleared up with some medication. She was getting a lot of human food before this event, so now she doesn’t get any. A little bump has surfaced on her forehead and a skin tag looking thing on her eyelid a month ago, which I took her to the vet for and he said it could be a cyst and a skin tag, but it was too small to tell, and to monitor them for size changes. There have been no size changes.