Need some input.... on puking! - Page 1

My boy Apache puked the 4th night in a row last night. If things would be only as easy as saying...well, he is sick. But they arent.

I feed my dogs twice a day. He gets 1.5 cups of Wellness Core kibble moistened up with water at each meal. He's been on it for close to 2 years now. 3 other dogs are getting the same food, no problems. Apache eats fine, is enthusiastic, full of energy and all of his obnoxious self. No sign at all that he doesnt feel well. Poops are fine as well, not too soft and not too hard. And whats most puzzeling, he only puked at night, never throughout the day. He has been wormed about 2 weeks ago using ivermectin. We went to training today and he enjoyed himself very much, even played 3 dog ball after and he had no hesitations with all the running around.

Hubby and myself are tired of getting up in the middle of the night to do clean ups. Dont even know what to tell the vet "he pukes at night but otherwise is perfectly fine?"

I need some brain storming please. Anyone experienced this before?

Any reason to wonder if ivermectin didn't agree with him maybe? Do you always use that? Any previous problems? Does he drink a lot of water? Is there possibly anything he could be getting into at night, outside, say in the last potty break? I had a dog do that once- couldn't figure out what was going on but followed him outside and discovered that he was eating something weird in the corner of the yard, hence the puking. 

Giardia can cause puking sometimes; is he thin at all? Does he eat grass? 

No weight loss? No change in coat consistency? I don't know what you mean by obnoxious; that must surely be a typo. I'm quite positive he is charming. 

Maybe he ate the Wii remote cover. We're missing ours and my dog puked. But not 4 days in a row.

One of our dogs has been doing the same thing.  No fever, no lethargy, eating fine, pooping fine but when her tummy is empty (middle of the night or right before supper) she heaves up a small puddle of bile colored mucus.  This morning she chukked up 2 little pieces of chewed plastic.  So I am hoping that is the end of that.

Actually, I was just going to post a similar question.
One of our other dogs will puke if he eats snow.  He is fine otherwise.  Every year it's the same thing.  He will be in the yard running around doing his business, acting totally normal.  Then he picks up some icy chunks and crunches them down. In less than a minute he is heaving.  If he has eaten his breakfast/dinner it all comes up.  If he has an empty tum he still gags out the mucusy stuff.
He eats grass in the summer and it doesn't bother him.  We laugh about that and say he must be part Angus steer.  But snow and ice are an issue.
Anybody else seen this?  I try to watch him like a hawk and  yell but sometimes my timing sucks.
 Hey Chaz what color was your remote?  White?????

Yes, how'd ya know?

Let's think this through...
Has anything at all changed in the evening routine? Does he sleep in a crate? How soon after eating does he go to bed? How soon after he eats does he go out? Do you go out with them? What does he vomit up? Just food? How much does he drink in the evening?

I would get an x-ray to make sure he does not have a tumor that pressing on his stomach when he is laying down for long periods of time. He may also be trying to bloat  or air may be getting pocketed at night and in the am he can walk it out? Grasping at straws....

Debby

 

uh....I dunno.
Two, chewed, little white pieces of plastic.......sorry. check's in the mail.

We have had that happen and it's at night. Chewed plastic as someone said, I know my router was destroyed one day and I think a plastic water bottle from the counter!

My sister-in-law's dog did this and it was a squeaky that he ate from a stuffed toy. It was imbedded in his intestines and he needed surgery. He was off his food, my dogs were not and they have chewed dishes too. Now it's stainless only, but they have always puked at night and something they ate came up.

  Blaize did same thing and he died after the third day of throw up..We thought he just ate grass or something  that made his stomach sour., as he was a hugh boned gsd.

Found out he ate too many pieces of his KONG and it caused Liver failure...plus was obstucting other parts of intestine ...

Nothing we could do by the time I got him to the vets office...Now we have no Kongs, and of course, all dishes are stainless steel or eat off ground..But you cannot stop them from dirt, rocks  , or fence wood bark and they are like garbage vacuums....

We would have never every thought anything he put in his mouth would not come out..his kong he secretly would knaw on while Heith was reading late into the morning. Blaize was my sons dog he raised from pup and was his right hand man...been all over the USA and was well trained, well socialized and a fabulous dog..and has never been sick one day in his life...

The puking he ever did was usually when his tummy was upset he ate grass....three acres of anything he wanted....so it was a shock.

The funny thing , is , like your dog, he chased a horse w rider in ditch out front down a half an acre length of fenceline, the afternoon before we found him laying lethargic and half dead on front porch..I had been only giving him  broth with rice for two days...his bowl cleared up to firmer but not perfect...so I assumed he was mended especially since he showed no signs of feeling bad..

Vet was sure either liver or kidney failure as bits of pieces of kong began showing up...the night before he did  die. There had to  have been an obstruction somewhere.

YR

Isn't there a flu outbreak in your area? I swear I read something about it on this or another forum. A few dogs from training clubs in your area were sick, if I remember right. Could it be that he just has a mild form and for whatever reason, happens to only throw up at night, but isn't sick enough to act sick? 

What does he throw up when he throws up? I assume you don't mean regurgitate, as you're a medical professional, and you mention getting up in the middle of the night to clean it, so it should be on its way to digested...not still in the esophagus as it would be with simple regurgitation. Is it food, digested food, or bile or just clear?