blood clots

Question
I have a pom and she is almost 3.... Today two times that she has went outside and pooped she has ended up with blood clots on her hair. What could this be? she is acting her normal self, eating and drinking fine too.

Answer
Frank blood, or fresh blood like this, is generally caused from some sort of irritation in the lower colon right before the rectum. Most of the time this can be caused by what the dog eats. Cheap food will cause this reaction a lot.

I had cats that had this problem often until I took them off of cheap food and put them on Science Diet over 30 yrs ago. They never had blood in or on their stool again.

What ever the irritation is, it is basically local in the lower area of her intestines. I would get her on some better quality food and see how she does. Cheap foods, or low quality foods, such as Mighty Dog, Little Cesars, Old Roy, Purina, etc can cause this due to additives in the food, food colorings, low quality ingredients etc. Any of these can cause enough irritation to cause minor bleeding.

Get her on some Science Diet small bites for little dogs and watch her flourish.
If that doesn't help, or she has a lot of blood coming out, or goes off her feed etc, get her to your vet as soon as possible. You don't mention vaccinations so if she isn't vaccinated for parvo she could come down with that. That can start with bloody stool.