Hello, I'm new here and I have an issue with our 4 year old English Bulldog named Nemo.
Let me give you a small backstory on Nemo. When he was a puppy, he was pretty outgoing and adventurous. He would play and was never afraid of anything. When he was about 7 months old, he (fortunately) survived a house fire. Ever since, he has been afraid of everything except people. Bags, boxes, vacuum, new items being brought into the house, the patio umbrella blowing in the wind, etc.
He also is the laziest creature... he spends his days sleeping like a cat, only getting up to eat and crap. He has his own recliner downstairs lol and pretty much sleeps in there all day. He likes to go outside only to lay in the sun -- fetch is not an option, he would rather not play. Sometimes you can get him going, but not for long. He shares his home with a German Shepherd who would love nothing more than a dog to romp around with, but he's not interested lol. We've tried to get him excited about life, but he seems totally content to be a couch potato.
He's loving, but lazy. He has never had any kind of medical issue. We feed him Blue Wilderness Salmon, same as our Shepherd.
The past 2 weeks his bathroom routine has been off. He usually goes number 2 twice a day, before noon and after dinner. Every other day or every couple days lately , he has been waking us up barking to go out with urgency - it's literally an EMERGENCY - at 3:30, 4, 5am.. He can't get outside fast enough to go diarrhea.
NO idea what's going on. I looked it up and a lot of websites say stress is a factor for diarrhea. Not sure what he has to be stressed about. Nothing has changed in our daily lives that would make him any more stressed than his normal self. Food has not changed. Before taking him to a vet, I'm curious what any of you think could be going on.
I'm sure it's not fun for him to have diarrhea, and it's certainly not fun for me to be getting up in the middle of the night/early morning every other day. How can we get him back on schedule?
Thanks for any help!
Let me give you a small backstory on Nemo. When he was a puppy, he was pretty outgoing and adventurous. He would play and was never afraid of anything. When he was about 7 months old, he (fortunately) survived a house fire. Ever since, he has been afraid of everything except people. Bags, boxes, vacuum, new items being brought into the house, the patio umbrella blowing in the wind, etc.
He also is the laziest creature... he spends his days sleeping like a cat, only getting up to eat and crap. He has his own recliner downstairs lol and pretty much sleeps in there all day. He likes to go outside only to lay in the sun -- fetch is not an option, he would rather not play. Sometimes you can get him going, but not for long. He shares his home with a German Shepherd who would love nothing more than a dog to romp around with, but he's not interested lol. We've tried to get him excited about life, but he seems totally content to be a couch potato.
He's loving, but lazy. He has never had any kind of medical issue. We feed him Blue Wilderness Salmon, same as our Shepherd.
The past 2 weeks his bathroom routine has been off. He usually goes number 2 twice a day, before noon and after dinner. Every other day or every couple days lately , he has been waking us up barking to go out with urgency - it's literally an EMERGENCY - at 3:30, 4, 5am.. He can't get outside fast enough to go diarrhea.
NO idea what's going on. I looked it up and a lot of websites say stress is a factor for diarrhea. Not sure what he has to be stressed about. Nothing has changed in our daily lives that would make him any more stressed than his normal self. Food has not changed. Before taking him to a vet, I'm curious what any of you think could be going on.
I'm sure it's not fun for him to have diarrhea, and it's certainly not fun for me to be getting up in the middle of the night/early morning every other day. How can we get him back on schedule?
Thanks for any help!