Reg: 11-20-2008
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I woke up an hour ago, and my boxer puked a lot of blood (it was very textured. He ate the chicken backs and some organ meat for dinner, plus a little more organ and licked the blood before bed (I was repackaging the organs).
It does look like the organ mix, but shouldn't it be digested by now? (6 hours ago was the last organ feeding).
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How is your dog acting? Normal or lethargic? Are his gums pink when you press your finger on them?
If he's acting normally, I'd keep an eye on him and offer a smaller, blander-than-normal meal and see how he does with that. It may be that the organs and blood were too much of a good thing, didn't sit well with him, and brought his digestive system to a screeching halt.
If he's acting "off" and his gums are pale then I would get him to a vet pronto.
It's possible that he just didn't digest it for some reason-illness, etc. and it's appearing that he's vomiting blood when it's not HIS blood...it's from the organ mix. Did you by any chance feed him something else after the raw? Something that could've halted digestion?
I'll second Sarah and say that if he's acting at all strange and his gums are not normal, or he's not interested in food or water, I'd take him in.
Reg: 11-20-2008
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thanks for the quick answers.
I did feed him beef tendons earlier that day, and i could find chunks of it in the vomit...the inside of his lips were pale/gray-ish right after, but getting back to pink as time passes...the gums were a little more pale than normal, but now it's back to normal.
I took him to a Vet in the city, and a quick exam shows no pain and no signs of anything else.
I thought that he would have digested most of it in 6 hours, and was expecting more bile than blood. The vet said that probably the chunks of tendons messed up the digestion of the rest, and that's what he's throwing up.
he did look pretty normal (well normal post throwing up) and now he looks better (although after the car ride to the vet, he threw up some more, but far less).
she recommended skipping food until tonight, and feed something bland like rice and cooked chicken breast...any other suggestion?
Not really. Bland dinner sounds good to me. It's possible that the tendons were too hard to digest and his stomach wasn't ready for the organs, which are rich in their own right.
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