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My boyfriend and I just got home from a trip to Florida to find our dog, Sebastian (4 years old), had explosive diarrhea in his crate. Our neighbor watched him over the holiday and he started having diarrhea sometime Sunday morning. Since then, he's been having episodes once every hour or so. His diarrhea doesn't have blood in it, it's just brown water at this point but he's getting it everywhere. We're very frustrated. We're not sure if he ate anything unusual recently since we weren't home. Is he still eating well? Any vomiting? Is he bright and alert? We haven't fed him since he's had diarrhea but he hasn't been vomiting. He's never really "bright and alert" but he's acting pretty normal just nervous because we're upset. We're keeping him hydrated and we've dealt with bouts of diarrhea before but it has never been this frequent or uncontrolled.
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