My 2 year old female, Weimaraner has a terrible time with bowel movements, every time. Her routine after she circles and circles is that she finally gets into the poop position and then will hold it, and squeeze, and strain, for several minutes until finally a SMALL AMOUNT of liquid poop comes out;
Then she repeats that several more times over the next 10-15 minutes until she finally has pooped her total.
She NEVER poops one long, firm poop, like my lab does. I feel really bad for her, its soo much work and strain for her.