Dog with chronic vomiting.

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I have SUCH great luck, another pet is having issues!

I got her a vet appointment this Friday, the earliest I could.

Mysti is Husky/Border Collie, 40lbs at her last check up in December, and of unknown age since she was a stray before we got her.

For the last couple of weeks she has been vomiting (no regurgitating, I looked it up) solid food, digested food, mucus and, rarely, bile. No blood, ever.

This primarily happens at night, but sometimes happens during the day. Sometimes she can go a day without anything coming up.

We have tried three different foods, no change.

She hasn’t gotten any new meds, foods for a week, and nothing has changed in the house/yard.

Right now she is an a scrambled egg, chicken and rice diet we started this morning at the vets over the phone suggestion.

She is not a “hoover dog”. Won’t even pick up non-food objects.

Neither of the other two dogs is throwing up.

She doesn’t have diarrhea, no discharge, etc. She is UTD on shots, is on a monthly heartworm/flea/worm med (Trifexis).

Any ideas? I’m just scared its some kind of cancer.

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My 12 year old English Setter has the exact same issue. He IS a stomach cancer survivor who has had one third of his stomach removed. We have tried every type of food imaginable and none of them has alleviated the issue. What has worked, at least a little, is to feed him very small amounts , frequently, during the day, and to do the same with his water - small amounts, frequently, throughout the day.

I have had numerous tests done with no definitive answers. Rocky is active, in no distress other than the vomiting, and happy. I just keep the Spotbot handy and have him checked quarterly.

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We had problems with our dogs vomiting at night and were able to stop it by feeding them 3 times a day vs. twice a day. It seems going 12 hours between meals was causing gastric stress. Of course you have to change the portion you feed them. Not sure if it will help but, it worked for us.

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How old was he and what symptoms did he have before he was diagnosed with stomach cancer?

We have one of those dog feeders that holds about a pound of dog food and the dogs can eat throughout the day. She has been fed this way since we got her two years ago with no problems.

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Our dog had this. It was a partial tracheal paralysis, which caused him to swallow or aspirate much more saliva and mucus. It got progressively worse and required a surgery.

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Yes, I would try restricting her food to small portions and see how that goes. Yes, that means no free feeding for now, which means changing the household. :frowning:

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My last dog wasn’t able to keep his food down and them he started to have blood in his urine . Sadly it turned out he had cancer in his kidneys . :frowning: I hope this is not the case with your dog , I agree try feeding your smaller meals and made sure it drinking enough water too. Best of luck

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My youngest dog, 2-year old Quinn, a doberman mix, had a very scary incident of choking, regurge, and running around panicking because of the choking. The ER Vet did scopes and xrays and kept her 2 days and couldn’t make a diagnosis. $1000 later, after a couple days in the hospital of fluids and anti-nausea meds, she came home. Was still panting and shaking in the car on the way home, but as soon as she was home, she seemed fine. The world’s most expensive tummy ache with a side of panic attack.

Good luck with Mysti!

StG

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One problem with that is the setup is the only thing keeping my senile Great Pyrenees/Lab mix eating. We don’t really have room to separate them.

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Your Lab/Pyr won’t eat if you put a bowl of nummy food in front of him 2-3 times a day while his buddy is eating? Even if you throw in some of the eggs or other good stuff? If you absolutely cannot feed him any other way, can you keep your puking dog on a leash or crated so she cannot free feed for 1-2 days?

Think of it this way. When you have the stomach flu, one thing you are told to do is to stop eating entirely until you stop getting sick. After you’re not getting sick any more, then re-introduce foods. If you start eating too soon, you get sick again (often). In this case, the vet is advising different food. Smaller meals also seems like good advice while you try to determine cause.

If you can’t separate the dog from the food, can you restrict the dog from the food by a leash or crate and only let her eat what the vet has recommended?

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[quote=“Brodi, post:4, topic:781113”]

How old was he and what symptoms did he have before he was diagnosed with stomach cancer?
He was seven when diagnosed with the stomach cancer. He had started losing weight rapidly, was listless, and running a low grade fever. What little he did eat came back up almost immediately. The vet gave us decent odds (60-40) that Rocky would have a recovery, so we went ahead with the surgery. I am glad we did, as he has had no recurrence of the cancer.

Now we treat him much like we would a patient who had gotten a gastric bypass.

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Some of those symptoms sound similar to my last dog’s. Pancreatitis maybe, food allergies maybe, kibble v. canned, chicken and rice and a lot of vet bills later, he was just the same. Periodically he’d need antibiotics, pain meds, and half a tablet of generic prilosec. Everything would work for a while, then the lethargy and vomiting and whining would begin again. After a few years of this, given his age, I had him euthanized. He was sick and not fixable.

Not that this provides any help to you, but I wanted to mention the pancreatitis, which I really really hope isn’t your dog’s problem.

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He literally won’t eat. His mind is just to far gone at this point. Some days he forgets what a milkbone is and you have to insert it like a credit card into an ATM before he gets what he’s supposed to do.

I’ve kept her distracted from the bowl and the rice/chicken/egg combo is all she’s eaten today.

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Is that working? My pooch started throwing up last year, and always had bad skin conditions. After some expensive experiments at the vet who really only wanted to sell us their… you know that shit food… we empirically traced it down to not being able to eat anything with wheat in it. Maybe other stuff too, but, yeah, wheat. Maybe she always had it, maybe it just developed. One piece of the old dog food (the other dog eats it just fine) and it’s acckk-ahhh. Rice and chicken and she’s a happy dog. No pookie, no raw skin conditions.

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Any news on how MystI is doing? I was wondering about her today.