Morning before breakfast: not much (easy, “normal” quick retch): white viscous, nothing solid. Didn’t give breakfast.
Evening, so, ca. 24 hrs no food (not much water, either): little more, liquid, liquid-ier than morning, no solids, grass-green.
I Googled, but still. Wife is going nuts, blames me of course.
The second one “grass-green” would mean he (she?) was eating grass all day. Probably had a stomachache. The first one sounds puking up stomach acid. (When you throw up, but you haven’t eaten anything).
What it means, I can’t say, but that’s what I’m guessing it actually is. If it was my dog, I’d try and get them to eat something, anything. If they’re not eating food. Try some bread. Most dogs (IME) like bread and since it’s novel, it’ll seem like a treat so they might go for it. Other then the puking, what’s his general temperament. Normal or lethargic. That’s probably the biggest indicator of what your next move should be.
Also, if you haven’t done it yet, make sure you look all around the house to see if the dog got into something. Anything from eating an entire rawhide to a roll of toilet paper to a bottle of pills. Check outside too. You might find your answer in one of the piles he left for you too.
There is a green dye in some crayons and chalks that is non-toxic for humans but very toxic for dogs, and does cause throwing up. Any chance your dog could have eaten something like that? If so, emergency vet ASAP.
(Our dog ate a piece of green chalk from my daughters box of pastels once. She survived after stomach pumping.)
I hadn’t heard that. My dogs have never eaten chalk, but they’ve eaten a lot of crayons in the last 7 years. Makes them shit rainbows. But they’ve never puked from it.
It is green ones specifically (and maybe not all green ones, it is a particular pigment that is sometimes used). Given that Leo’s dog is puking green, it seemed a possibility. Our dog just ate the one piece of green chalk (actually a dark green pastel) and was throwing up repeatedly soon after.
I did find it odd the he mentioned grass green but didn’t mention grass in the puke. It’s one of the reasons to take a look around the house. To go back to the crayon example, when my dogs get into crayons, there’s always a mess of crayon wrappers left behind. Unless whatever they get into is all food (or all edible anyways), there’s usually some evidence.
I am not a veterinarian, and I have no idea what may be wrong with your dog.
I have had one dog or another for most of my 54 years. One thing I have discovered is that dogs will vomit. Just like barking and eating cat shit, they will vomit. Generally, not frequently, but it is how they get rid some of the bad stuff they eat (they like to eat really gross stuff, see comment about cat shit, above). I’ve seen white, clear, yellow, brown, and green dog vomit, but I’ve never seen dog die of vomiting. My understanding is the white is mostly stomach acids and the green is bile (both would be expected if the dog hasn’t eaten).
If it were my dog, I would feed him. Your OP is not very clear; is the dog not eating, or are you withholding food? Try to get the dog to eat. If he isn’t eating and hasn’t eaten all day, I would consider scrambling an egg (dogs love eggs), but let it cool before you offer it (dogs aren’t very used to eating very hot food).
How is the dog’s demeanor other than the vomiting? Shallow breathing, lethargic, or changes in usual behavior are warning signs. If the dog is showing other signs of distress (other than vomiting), you probably should find an emergency vet clinic. 24 Hours without eating is bad. Not drinking water is bad. Not going to the bathroom is bad. Vomiting, not so much.
My wife freaks-out when our latest dog vomits; has taken him to the vet for it. I try to tell her that unless he shows other signs of distress, to not worry, but she will do it anyway. The vet checks him out and tells her he is OK, which makes her feel better.
I hope everything works out OK.
excavating (for a mind)
Demeanor fine. He ate some boiled chicken i gave him, drank his water.
He got over some gastritis bug 2 weeks ago (antibiotic regimen finished), then this week presented us, per os (via mouth, as it says on Rx) a large kitchen garbage-pail size garbage bag, which he some unknown time previously boa-constrictored down to squeeze out whatever precious inner organs it might be harboring.
So, my wife, in her usual logic whenever the slightest is awry with Buddy, is worried that maybe “a piece got stuck” and thinks green==bile, plus Google said so, so he must be really fucked up, and as usual it’s my faul because I let him off leash in the bushes in my apt. complex, and that he licks the kitchen floor because I’m too sloppy when I cook, for Christ’s sake.
I must be secretly married to excavating’s wife’s accusatory angel sister.
Many thanks to all of you who responded so quickly.
I’ll update tomorrow.
If he’s acting fine, I’d give him boiled chicken (and rice maybe) tonight and tomorrow, maybe mix in some his regular food for the next meal or two and probably not over think it. Dogs get sick, people get sick, it’s probably not worth stressing yourself out over and as long as he doesn’t get sicker it’s certainly not worth a thousand dollar emergency vet bill. If you’re really worried…scratch that, if you’re wife is really worried, I’ll tell you the same thing I told my ex wife when she called me a few months ago when our (split custody) dogs got into something at her house. Set an alarm for a few hours after you go to bed, wake up the dog and say “Hey, do you wanna treat!!! treat!!!, wanna treat!!!”. It should be pretty obvious if he’s sick or not.
Well, damn. Puking again, almost three days. He’s definitely acting strange, mopy, in weird places (ie not being our shadow), sluggish. We’re going to the vet in an hour. Now yellow and viscous.
He sort of ate, without enthusiasm, some boiled chicken. Nine hours later, it too came up. This morning five minutes after he ate. And then twice later.
The weird thing is his poop (very small amount, since there’s not much food top beging with), is fine.
I think that since he doesn’t have diarrhea maybe it’s a food upset thing, not a bug. But what do I know.
Sorry to hear, but for 3 days, yeah, there is something wrong. If he just ate something he shoudn’t have, he would have gotten rid of it (out of one end or the other) by now.
I hope you get good news from the vet and your dog gets to feeling better. Give him a scritch for me, you know, on his rump, where he likes it.
excavating (for a mind)
[First: Hi mods, this thread is ready to be shuffled off to IMHO now, since vomit color, although still an interesting and necessary diagnostic tool, seems about played out.]
Well, fuck. Buddy (a big Golden) lost 8 lbs in 10 days, from 80 to 72 lbs. Some of that is due to a diet I put him on, but still. He is acting and looking really sick and lethargic. It hurts to watch, naturally.
Since his poop was fine, and what with l’affaire sac plastique, she thought blockage. When she palpated his belly, although he didn’t cry or anything, he gave some of those “something’s going on that probably hurts” look-backs, so she suggested an x-ray. I agreed. (Really at that point only so I could say to my wife I had done so, similar to some other posters upthread.)
So, x-ray shows: a healthy long line of poop in the channel, ready to, not impacted or anything. Fine. But then, reading upstream, one big intestinal loop–she said she didn’t know which one [is this a bad sign for a vet?!]–was puffed up like a hot dog, a tube outlined in white surrounding darkness, which she said is what gas shows up as.
Retreating further on the images was a whole mess of gut coils that were “troubling” for two reasons:
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they were way up “too far” in the transverse plane, in front of or bunching up around his stomach, and
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they too were all puffed up with air.
As to 1) she said possibly it’s nothing, he’s big and has a large chest (Boxer-ish). I asked and she said it’s not gas external to the coils pushing it up.
As to 2) she didn’t like it.
So, everything from plain old gastritis to a blockage, perhaps. X-rays show only metal blockages (this, and other stuff, I got from her). So, pictures off to radiologist to start. Then, sonogram. Then, surgery to go fish around. All together now: :eek::eek:.
Or, we go back tomorrow, as planned, and his x-rays come up roses.
At office treatment: Lactated Ringers Solution. Didn’t think it was all that necessary, but must feel great, so yes. Pepcid (sp?) subcutaneous. She talked about some newish ant-nausea med that effects the brain nausea site (?), but didn’t want to us it because it might mask symptons–ie, vomiting–useful to note. OK, but I feel bad for Buddy.
She also said I could wait till later for blood work, that going to x-rays was more important, and I agreed seeing my bill add and add. I caught hell from a dog friend I met on the way home. Did I do bad (please say no)?
He had some boiled chicken and so far has held it down an hour.
I left $486 lighter.
But I am scritching his butt, which excavating somehow divined is a good spot.