Poor Boy, Our First Experience of Parenting

I have heard that dogs can get their moods from their owners. If the owner is sick, the dog can acts lethargic and down in the dumps too. I just wasn't prepared for what happened yesterday. I should have know he wasn't going to be feeling well when I saw him in our Jungle chewing on a cantelope. I figured out what he was chewing on minutes to late. He had already tore into half of it. That was two days ago.
Yesterday morning when he woke me up to go out. He looked as stunned as I when the diarrhea came. He jumped as if something had just bit him on the ass. He ran straight for the door and I thought nothing more about it. At lunch the same thing happened. I thought back and remembered the cantelope and shrugged it off as a small case of the shits.
As I drove up our driveway after work, the misses was hauling Jeter out the door. She was up to her elbows in the soupy mess. I had neglected to tell her of Jeters problem. He had an accident in his kennel while we were at work. When she reached in and picked him up, it was already to late. She was covered. Our boy was sick. She sat him down and went in to clean up. He immediately made a dash for the lawn. As I stood watching him I noticed his poop was a deep red. Chills went down my spine. I called for the misses and told her about it. She took him to the vet.
While they were gone I thought about my pooping problems. Now I know they can tell if you are sick or in a bad mood, but there is no way he could sense the pain I am having there. A few minutes later they came back. The vet didn't think there was much to do. "It was like we had eaten 8 lbs of cherries at one time." They recommended a diaper to save our carpets and watch him for a few days. I didn't like the answer, but figured they knew what they were doing. I just hope it is a bad case of the shits and nothing more.