How to deal with constipation in black and tan coonhounds. Solutions to constipation in black and tan coonhounds.

Jul 27,2025
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What should I do if my black and tan coonhound is constipated? Dog constipation may make some novice poop collectors anxious, so why do dogs become constipated? How can we solve constipation?

Generally, there are three reasons that cause constipation in black and tan coonhounds:

1. Unscientific feeding and management: For example, the black and tan coonhound is fed dry food for a long time and does not drink enough water, the black and tan coonhound eats human hair and foreign objects, or does not exercise enough and suddenly changes the feed, environment and Management and other factors may lead to constipation in black and tan coonhounds.

2. Black and brown coonhounds suffer from other related diseases: painful defecation diseases (such as rectal polyps, proctitis, rectal stenosis, tumors, anal abscesses, etc.), and constipation due to the disappearance of the normal urge to defecate.

3. Dogs are unwell: Diseases that impede defecation movements (such as medullary joint dislocation, pelvic fractures and hind limb fractures, etc.) can cause constipation.

Corresponding to the causes of constipation in black and tan coonhounds listed above, preventing constipation in black and tan coonhounds can start from the following aspects:

1. Diet adjustment, try to feed easy-to-digest food and less dry food.

2. Add a spoonful of honey or vegetable oil to your dog’s food at each meal.

3. Ensure the dog’s daily drinking water and change it at any time.

4. Check the dog’s body regularly to ensure that the dog does not suffer from pathological constipation.

5. Make sure your dog gets daily exercise, which not only helps his health but also reduces the chance of constipation.

If your black and tan coonhound has developed constipation, straining to defecate, passing out a small amount of dry stool with mucus, or a small amount of foul-smelling loose stool, or trying to defecate but not easily passing it out, feeling nervous, barking , review the abdomen frequently. Then the appetite decreases or disappears, and the spirit becomes depressed. Some vomiting, obvious tenesmus, abdominal enlargement, intestinal bloating and other phenomena must be treated, otherwise the dog will be prone to danger.

Common methods to treat constipation in black and tan coonhounds:

1. Enema therapy: suitable for mild and simple constipation. Use 40 to 80 ml of warm soapy water and pour it into the intestine with an enema device, and use external abdominal pressure to moderately press the fecal mass caused by intestinal secretion. It usually works.

2. Drug therapy: Take an appropriate amount of laxatives orally. For example, 5 to 30 grams of magnesium sulfate or 5 to 50 ml of liquid paraffin oil should be taken orally.

3. Surgical therapy: When severe intestinal constipation cannot be achieved by the above methods, surgery can be performed to remove fecal matter from the intestinal cavity. (Must be performed in a regular hospital)

4. Practical method: You can give your dog a spoonful of salad oil to lubricate his intestines. 10ml at a time, fed 2-3 times, should help. In addition, you can give him a little milk, but not too much.

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