Updates: Blood in Gabby's stool... possible impaction? 
This post is for Gabby (15+ year old Mack snow, male)
On the night of April 4th, I noticed a small red spot with Gabby's pee on his paper towel. I had a doctor look at him. He said Gabby seemed healthy in every way, and couldn't find any source of blood - even after using a q-tip inside Gabby's rectum to check.
The second stool was fine, but the third (which was last night) came out with a little more blood than last time. I brought this sample into the vet and had them run tests. There are no parasites, but they suspect the blood may be from pieces of sand that Gabby swallowed, scraping his insides. They found some in his stool, and I have found more sand in his stool a week ago. They told me to drop him off Monday morning so they can do an X-ray.
I removed all the sand from his tank, and he's resting at the moment. 6th day since it first happened.
My questions for users:
1) Should I feed him tonight? Or hold off? I'm not sure what more digestion will do to him.
2) Is this more urgent than waiting Monday morning? Should I be taking an emergency visit to ICU?
3) Is there anything else I can do to help?
This post is for Gabby (15+ year old Mack snow, male)
On the night of April 4th, I noticed a small red spot with Gabby's pee on his paper towel. I had a doctor look at him. He said Gabby seemed healthy in every way, and couldn't find any source of blood - even after using a q-tip inside Gabby's rectum to check.
The second stool was fine, but the third (which was last night) came out with a little more blood than last time. I brought this sample into the vet and had them run tests. There are no parasites, but they suspect the blood may be from pieces of sand that Gabby swallowed, scraping his insides. They found some in his stool, and I have found more sand in his stool a week ago. They told me to drop him off Monday morning so they can do an X-ray.
I removed all the sand from his tank, and he's resting at the moment. 6th day since it first happened.
My questions for users:
1) Should I feed him tonight? Or hold off? I'm not sure what more digestion will do to him.
2) Is this more urgent than waiting Monday morning? Should I be taking an emergency visit to ICU?
3) Is there anything else I can do to help?
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