I came down this morning to find my poor dog had been sick and had diarrhoea in the night. There was some blood in the diarrhoea
He was feeling very sorry for himself. When he went outside into the garden, we tried to watch him as he went to the toilet, couldn't quite see him but DH had a look later and in the snow there looks like more diarrhoea and blood.
He went out for his walk happy as larry, bit more diarrhoea with blood and sick again when he got home.
We can't think of anything he might have eaten. He only had his normal dry food and a bit of my posh beefburger (posh as in nice meat rather than v cheap burger that might have been more likely to have had all sorts of rubbish in it.) Of course it's possible he managed to quickly snaffle something on his walk yesterday, but nothing obvious.
He has had this once before. We were away on holiday for a week, he was staying with our dog walker, had diarrhoea with blood, she rang the vet and he ended up in the veterinary hospital on a drip
Do we need to take him to the vet? He does seem perfectly happy now. Obviously if he needs to go I will take him, but I'd rather not unless it's necessary, for his own benefit, as he will hate it. If it's just something he ate and he will be fine in a day or two I don't want to put him through any unnecessary trauma. I'm also conscious that our dog walker would have been ultra-cautious.
Any help much appreciated.