Any regular vomiting is not normal. Auster has an extremely sensitive stomach and will puke up even the smallest amount of corn. She probably brings stuff up about 2x a month, but each time there is a specific reason (last time it was eating saran wrap and a rabbit fur that gave her a hairball)
Before she bloated it was maybe once a year when she got sick, although she wasn't as much of a goat then either.
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Mine did quite a bit which is why I started investigating diets and moved to RAW when he was about a year and a half old. No problem with vomiting since the change in diet.
Mine vomited more on dog food. They eat fast and it would either come right back up or it would swell in their stomachs and come up. They vomit sometimes with raw but not that often. I can't mix chicken and fish - they'll vomit it right up. They also graze like cattle on the longer grass and lower hibiscus leaves (they made a nice bush out of it). You might try giving your dog some fresh, grated vegetables if you continue with the dry food.
On average I have about one dog a month puke for whatever reason. Mine are fed raw.
Nothing like that sound to wake me out of a dead sleep. urk-urk-urk-blap.
I will say that when I first switched my dogs to raw a couple of years ago it was not uncommon for dinner to revisit. It could happen as often as a couple times a week. With my dogs it always would happen within the first hour or so of feeding, and most often in my male who didn't like the idea of chewing his food.
I also added a probiotic powder to my dogs food starting about a month ago and have had no incidents of vomiting since.
not that often - one of them vomited over some fish about a week ago. Before that, it's been at least a month and that was a fish/chicken incident or the one that was sick with pyometra. They usually don't vomit unless they eat too fast or don't chew their food enough to get it down and that's not that often (meaning usually months in between vomiting). My vet said dogs throw up more than people realize and unless there's an illness associated, it's not a big deal. I have a friend who feeds her dog dry food and he would throw up every meal. They learned that he would eat and then drink a bowl of water. After they took away the water so he didn't drink immediately, he quit throwing up. Dry food swells up so much in their stomachs that it can cause problems. When my dog was a puppy, I let her eat her fill one time and that was it (she seemed too hungry and in a growth spurt, needing extra). The food swelled in her stomach and she groaned with pain. I also have another friend that had a problem with allergies to grains in the dog food and she had to try several kinds before she found out what worked. I hope this helps.
If the dog is doing it after each meal, It may be Esophagial problems. There is becoming more and more of this, and there is no fix. The dog will be best served by putting it down if this is the problem.
Ron
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