What causes Colitis in dogs?Dog has bloody diarrhea.?
Like any illness, there are a number of causes. It could be nutritional, or your dog could have eaten something inappropriate, causing trauma to the gut. Or, your dog could have a congenital predisposition for this condition. Colitis can also be secondary to other underlying illnesses. Your vet could give you a longer list of possible causes that I, but more importantly, they could give you a more likely cause for your dog’s specific situation. Since we are neither vets, nor have examined your dog, no one on here can know what has caused this. Aside from all of this, it isn’t always necessary to know the cause of something generalised like this in order to treat it. When examining your dog, your vet will have asked you a series of questions like ‘how long has this been going on for’ that type of thing – this is all aimed at looking for obvious causes of the illness, but failing finding an obvious cause does not stop the illness being successfully treated. If your concern is avoiding a
