Don’t underestimate the dog’s excrement. It contains important information about the health of the dog. As long as the owner observes it carefully, he can prevent and detect some diseases early.

1. The secret of color (understand the health of your dog from the color of its poop)

1. Red poop: The owner should first check whether the dog’s poop is bloody due to anal fissure. If not, it is likely to be bleeding from the dog’s lower gastrointestinal tract.

2. Orange poop: When your dog’s poop contains orange residue, or part of the poop is orange, it is most likely due to poor digestion, which prevents all the food from being absorbed.

3. Yellow poop: The color of the poop at this time is relatively healthy, and it can be judged that the food the dog eats contains higher carbohydrate content. If the color of the poop is dark yellow, it may also be due to the destruction of a large number of red blood cells in the dog's body, resulting in jaundice.

4. Off-white poop: If the poop is "white clay" in color, it may be jaundice or bile duct obstruction caused by stones, tumors, roundworms, etc., which prevents biliflavin from being excreted casually.

5. Brown poop: The color of healthy poop, but the food the dog eats contains more fat, so the fat intake should be reduced appropriately.

6. Green poop: When a dog eats vegetables with high chlorophyll content such as celery and cucumber, the poop will be green because it cannot be completely digested and absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, or the acidity in the intestine is too high.

7. Black poop: Black poop will appear if the dog’s stomach, duodenum, small intestine and other digestive organs bleed.

2. The secret of the shape (understand whether the dog is healthy from the shape of the poop)

1. Healthy poop: It is cylindrical in shape and can be pinched with a paper towel.

2. Soft stool: I try to wrap it up with a tissue, but it quickly seeps out of the paper and leaves traces on the ground. Reason: Colds, eating too much or being too cold can cause diarrhea.

3. Elongated stool: thinner than ordinary stool. Reason: This is a danger signal because the intestinal lumen is narrow or intestinal obstruction is caused by accidental ingestion of foreign objects.

4. Mosaic-shaped poop: incompletely digested things such as corn are embedded in the stool. Reason: The food the dog eats cannot be digested because some foods are not suitable for the dog’s stomach.

5. Small ball-shaped stool: each one is small ball-shaped, with few bowel movements, hard stool, and only one bowel movement every 2-3 days. Reason: Inflammation caused by insufficient drinking water or improper diet, causing dogs to have dry stools and even difficulty defecating.

6. Muddy stool: Muddy liquid stool, chocolate or brown colored muddy stool with a strong putrid smell. reason:Digestive tract mucosal damage, pathogenic infection or digestive tract ulcer.

7. Watery stool: The stool feels like water. Although there are lumps in the stool, it is basically liquid. Reason: When a dog has watery stool, it may be a sign of serious infectious diseases such as parvovirus infection and coronavirus enteritis, which may worsen rapidly.

8. Mucous stool: There is mucus in the stool, with mucus and bubbles on it. Cause: It may be that the rectal mucosa near the dog’s anus is severely inflamed.

9. Tar stool: stool with tarry mucus and shape. Reason: Bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, but for too long, the blood has coagulated during excretion and is mixed with the stool.