Hello everyone, this is Pet Ramblings here to talk to you about how to tell when your pet is constipated and how to deal with it yourself at home when it happens.

• Pet constipation

This refers to the inability of the pet to pass feces out of the body normally, the pet often acts in a defecating position, but can only pass a small amount of dry and hard feces or fecal soup, or can’t pass feces at all.

• animals of easy origin

Generally for old dogs or obese cats that do not like to exercise, and some obese dogs that often eat raw bone sticks, etc.

• recognize a disease or epidemic

The disease is easy to find in dogs and harder to distinguish in cats, but there is a way to find out. When the cat finishes going to the toilet, observe whether there is feces or urine in the litter, if there is only urine, eating and drinking normally for more than two days can be defined as constipation.

This is the bowel movement position

• Disease treatment

When a dog becomes constipated

1 If you eat and drink normally and have not had a bowel movement for only one day, you can increase the amount of food and water you eat and drink to give your stomach and intestines a little more power to make them move backward and help speed up the bowel movement.

2 If the method is ineffective, the next day still do not see defecation, the dog frequently Nu then, do defecation posture, there is still no fecal discharge, then you can buy Kesler, in accordance with the 2 to 5 ml per kilogram injected into the anus, if it is a 20 kg dog, you can first give 20 ml, and then go to walk a walk, if there is still no fecal discharge after 20 minutes, then add 10 ml, and then in the walk, after 20 minutes, if there is still no fecal discharge, then add another 10 ml. ml, and so on, but a maximum of 60 ml is recommended.

3 If the feces still cannot be passed, it is recommended to go to the veterinary hospital to take a picture of the abdomen to see if there is a tumor around the rectum that is compressing the rectum and preventing the feces from being passed.

This is the bowel movement position

When constipation occurs in cats

1 If eating and drinking normally, more than one day did not see feces in the cat litter, but there is urine, it is best to go to the veterinary hospital to confirm the diagnosis of constipation rather than urinary incontinence, because in male cats bladder urethral stones, idiopathic cystitis caused by urinary incontinence is a high incidence of serious life-threatening, there should be no delay, so it is still better to diagnose the more secure!

2 If eating and drinking normally, there is normal urine lumps in the cat’s litter, only frequent defecation posture without fecal discharge, at this time, touch the cat’s abdomen without a hard ball-like objects, only indicates that the abdomen is more sensitive, do not want to be touched, if you carefully touch the abdomen, but also feel the long hard lumps, you can judge its constipation, when this case, according to the anus of 2 to 5 milliliters per kilogram injected

This is the position during defecation

• caveat

1 The dog is more obedient, the syringe can be used to put the dog in front of the low back high on the legs or platform, slowly injected, can also be used as a plastic hose, the front end of the application of some corkscrew to do lubrication, and then slowly into the anus of about 10 centimeters is appropriate to inject corkscrew

2 If it is a cat, you can put it in the cat bag to operate, but it is more difficult, if you can’t operate it yourself, you can give it to the doctor in the pet hospital to operate.

3 When you find that your pet is just not defecating according to the usual pattern, if you have honey at home, you can give it a little bit, but the general effect is not good. If you have lactulose at home, you can feed it to your pet according to the dosage of the instruction manual, but when your pet has been constipated for more than three days or more, you can’t feed it to your pet individually, so as to prevent your pet from discharging feces by the action of lactulose, which may lead to intestinal rupture or serious life-threatening injury due to tumor or other reasons. If the pet is unable to pass feces due to tumor or other reasons, it may lead to intestinal rupture, etc., which may be life-threatening in serious cases.

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