Eating vomit
#220162 - 12/15/2008 01:49 PM |
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About 5 minutes after eating her breakfast this morning, Cleo (8.5 m/o Presa) threw up her meal, and ate it off the grass. She re-chewed the chicken bones and ate much more slowly than usual.
I fed her a chicken carcass (about 8 oz.), 2 tbs of yogurt, salmon oil, vit. e capsule, a chicken liver and about 12 oz of a combination of ground turkey, ground beef, chicken gizzards and beef heart.
She seemed fine both before and after. I'm not really worried but more curious.
Does anyone know why dogs do this? Did something just not go down right? Could a chicken bone been irritating her stomach lining?
I look forward to your thoughts.
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Re: Eating vomit
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#220163 - 12/15/2008 01:58 PM |
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Did something just not go down right?
Yep. It's usually nothing to worry about. Especially if the dog re-eats it. A sick dog will rarely do that. A dog that just needed to "reorganize stomach contents" will, though.
What a thoughtful dog. She saved you the cost of an entire meal.
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Re: Eating vomit
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#220164 - 12/15/2008 02:01 PM |
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My dog has occasionally done this after eating chicken as well. (I also feed raw.) I always figured that the swallowing large chunks of bone and meat whole fairly well irritated her stomach and she just needed a second try.
Never seemed to have problems the second time around, and she doesn't do it all that often. It was mostly when she first started eating raw. I guess she thought she would lose a good thing if she took her time about it.
Of course, I could be wrong and, if so, welcome correction.
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Re: Eating vomit
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#220172 - 12/15/2008 02:38 PM |
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I've always considered it nature's way of telling the dog that something needs further chewing.
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Re: Eating vomit
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I've always considered it nature's way of telling the dog that something needs further chewing.
Yup, that's a good way of looking at it.
Oscar once inhaled his dinner so fast that he didn't even have time to move away from his bowl before the whole meal came up again - right back into his bowl! He wasted no time cleaning his plate, again, I'm pretty sure he enjoyed just as much the second time around...
In any case, no cause for alarm.
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Re: Eating vomit
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Re: Eating vomit
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Dogs are really efficient about temporarily ridding themselves of something that's causing a problem and then re-addressing it.
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Re: Eating vomit
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Did something just not go down right?
Yep. It's usually nothing to worry about. Especially if the dog re-eats it. A sick dog will rarely do that. A dog that just needed to "reorganize stomach contents" will, though.
What a thoughtful dog. She saved you the cost of an entire meal.
Whoa whoa, wait.....think back on the last time that you vomited though - really, do you remember the burning as it was coming back up like an acid volcano and how it even affected your nasal region? And remember the burning, bitter taste and smell afterwards, that even drinking water really didn't help? Even your eyes were watering, remember?
Think here for a moment and try to remember it in its entirety, the awful burning sensation and the odor and how everything lingered....
The acidic stomach contents is at a higher ph after you've ( or your dog ) has thrown up, and your oral mucosal surfaces are not up to the damage it can do now - honestly, leave it be, it's a risk that you don't want to take....and don't let your dog eat its vomit either...
Off to dinner now!
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Re: Eating vomit
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#220286 - 12/16/2008 08:12 AM |
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Will,
That was a great description of vomiting - touched all the senses. I'm going to print it and put it up (framed) next to my liquor cabinet.
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Re: Eating vomit
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Though, are people's dogs regurgitating, or vomiting? There is a difference....I thought regurgitation did not have as much bile/acids as vomit - in terms of safety of consumption.
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