Scary Night...

Jeremy Ordan

Jeremy Ordan

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Look, I don't have children so I can only imagine what you parents go through, but tonight I was laying out on the couch and my little dog who means the world to me started vomitting like crazy. I've never seen so much stuff come out of a dog. He lost bladder control, urinating all over the floor as he was puking. Then he was dragging his hind legs as he moved through the apartment and was unresponsive to any verbal commands. I thought he had a stroke. So I start freaking out, call my vet place (24 hour joint), and they tell me that iI can bring him in in 30 miunutes if he doesn't get back to normal. Well everything seems ok right now (he's sitting on my lap as I write this licking my hand), but I am just freaking out...

If I'm acting this way with my dog, who really does mean the entire world to me, I can only imagine how those of you who have children must feel...

I'm on dog watch for the next four hours at least.
 
Wow, that's harsh. I hope he's okay.

...so he's sitting on your lap, licking your hand as you type. Are we to believe what you wrote that entire post with one hand? Why don't you tell us what really happened, you don't even have a dog, do you?
 
I have a little dog that means the world to me too. I'd be devastated if something were to happen to her. I can relate. I'll talk to my girlfriend about your problem. She use to be a vet tech and knows a lot about animals.

I hope you pet is ok. What kind of dog is it?
 
Man that's scary. We've had similar scares with our dogs (labs) in the past. One got into some tequila at a gathering we were having, and its toxic to animals. Could yours have gotten into anything?
 
I don't know what he got into...

He's eating now and walking around just fine. He's always been super affectionate, loves kissing (esp your nose).

He's a five pound little poodle (ex fiance picked him up, I bought the check, and she kept the jewlery, I wanted the dog).

He's eating now and hopefully he'll be ok. We've been laying on the couch together. I'm just a bit freaked out.

EDIT:
There as a torn up paper towel, he might have gotten into that. I've just never seen so much vomit come out of such a small dog.
 
Glad to hear he's doing better. That's some scary stuff. How old is the dog?


TC said:
...so he's sitting on your lap, licking your hand as you type. Are we to believe what you wrote that entire post with one hand? Why don't you tell us what really happened, you don't even have a dog, do you?
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That's some funny stuff! :violent5:
 
He's doing better now it seems... He'll be four in June & TC, I was typing with both hands, he was just licking the wrist/hand. That did make me laugh though, and I needed that.

Thanks for the support everyone!
 
you're dog might of ate some chocolate. You should still just take him to the vet to play it safe if he means the world to you.
 
BLUESPIDER said:
you're dog might of ate some chocolate. You should still just take him to the vet to play it safe if he means the world to you.
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There's no chocolate in the house. I just now got off the phone with the vet and they said it sounds like just a vomitting episode and nothing to worry about.

Either way, we're going tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.
 
If he was throwing up so much, then he's, no doubt, dehydrated. Make sure he has plenty of fresh water to drink. Check to see if he appears dehydrated by lightly pinching a bit of skin around his neck area and pull and release to check for elasticity in the skin.

If the skin snaps back to normal almost immediately upon release, he may be OK. If the skin is slow to return to normal and kind of hangs there, then he may be dehydrated, in which case you need to check him for any signs of fever or chills. If either of those are evident, you may need to take him to the vet, although it's your call as to whether or not you take him now or wait until tomorrow.

I hope your pup recovers soon.
 
Terry. I just took your advice and his skin went right back. That put me at ease more than I have been. His nose is cold and wet, as usual, but he's had these chills for about three weeks (ever since he came back from the pet spa - he's a poodle, he has to be groomed), but he has that everytime he gets groomed for about a month sporadically.

I know dogs get into stuff and throw up. Normally I wouldn't have freaked out, woken up a bunch of people in the middle of the night and then confess to my second family here what is going on, but him not responding to me after he threw up and sort of limping really freaked me out. Things are a lot better now. I'm leaving the room, calling him, and he is coming. I cleaned out his food and water bowls and replaced them, tomorrow we'll go to the doctor and then I'll rent a carpet cleaner for the vomit marks that didn't come up.

This whole incident tonight proves that I do not ever need to father a child. I couldn't handle that.
 
Glad to hear that he doesn't seem to be dehydrated.

Not to be a
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, but I had an eight year old cat once that started vomiting uncontrollably. I took her to the vet and she died a day later. Turns out she had some kind of kidney problem common in cats and her kidneys had been almost completely calcified. Yet, she appeared as healthy and normal as could be prior to the vomiting episode.

I don't mean to alarm you by saying all this. I'm sure it's totally unrelated to your dog's health, but it just shows how precarious life can be even for rough and tumble critters.

Ich Ben Ein Caniner. Does that mean jelly-filled dog? :cheesy:
 
Dude... hope your dog is ok... I know how you feel... our most awesome dog (who died a couple years ago) used to have seizures... the first time it happened I got so freaked out... looked like he was dying... anyway, I know how you feel...hope your dog is ok :)
 
I have a dog that regularly has seizures, sometimes really bad ones, so I can relate as well. Don't know what I'd do if I lost that dog. Feel for ya.
 
TheYankee said:
Look, I don't have children so I can only imagine what you parents go through, but tonight I was laying out on the couch and my little dog who means the world to me started vomitting like crazy. I've never seen so much stuff come out of a dog. He lost bladder control, urinating all over the floor as he was puking. Then he was dragging his hind legs as he moved through the apartment and was unresponsive to any verbal commands. I thought he had a stroke. So I start freaking out, call my vet place (24 hour joint), and they tell me that iI can bring him in in 30 miunutes if he doesn't get back to normal. Well everything seems ok right now (he's sitting on my lap as I write this licking my hand), but I am just freaking out...

If I'm acting this way with my dog, who really does mean the entire world to me, I can only imagine how those of you who have children must feel...

I'm on dog watch for the next four hours at least.
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Hope it gets better man. Yeah, thats life though, sickness, death, life, its all around us.
 
My dog licked a frog once that just happened to emit some nasty oozy stuff on its skin as a detraction to getting eaten. That oozy frog skin stuff made my little dog look like Cujo. puking, foaming at the mouth, etc...but she was fine. I wanted to kill the frog, though.
 
Glad to hear your dog has bounced back. BUT, those symptoms you describes are NOT just the result of a vomiting attack. Specifically, the dragging of his legs and nonresponsiveness. Was he displaying a lack of cooridination, acting like he was drunk? Were his eyes flicking from back and forth to the left and right? Was he tiltling his head when this was going on, or are any of these still present to any degree?

If they are, or if he showed them, even if they are not there as much now, you may want to see the vet anyway. The odds are very very VERY high that is WAS NOT a stroke, but something more along the lines of Canine Periphreal Vestibular Syndrome. It is an inner ear deal where they lose balance, throw up, and in general behave as if they had been poisioned/had a stroke.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=canine+peripheral+vestibular+syndrome&btnG=Google+Search

Look at some of those links, and you should be relieved to a degree. I know all about this, since my dog had that happen 2 months or so. She is 13 though, and the "getting over" stage lasted quite a while (more than a month). Your dog is much younger, and that may be one of the reasons he is bouncing back more quickly. You might want to examine the contents of the throw up, and yes, even his poop. If he had vestibular syndrom, the sympotoms can onset with no warning at all, and the one way to figure out if that could be the case and NOT poision is to look at the contents of his tummy on your floor and see if there is something there that shouldn't be. You probably have cleaned it up by now. He could have eaten something outside, which could have done it.

Is this an outside dog, an inside dog, or both, and to what degree of each? Dogs will eat just about anything not moving under its own power (and some things that are), and can also have alergic reations just like we do.

Good heads up call Terry, that's a great suggestion. Especially if the dog had thrown up to the point where is was foamy.

Yank, watch his eyes and motor movements closely. if he shows ANY of the signs listed above or found in the links, get him to a vet. There's nothing they can do about the actual Syndrom itself, but they can get him an iv and give him antibiotics if it is an inner ear infection which could be the case also. The upside is the symptoms usually go away entirely, especially the younger the animal, and the only thing which may stay is a slight tilting of the head, which our poor girl still has, but only slightly. You give them a doggie Dramamine (sp?) for a while and that helps, but makes them sleepy.

Good luck with yer dog. I know the feeling.

Christ, what's it gonna be like when I have kids???
 
thartley said:
My dog licked a frog once that just happened to emit some nasty oozy stuff on its skin as a detraction to getting eaten. That oozy frog skin stuff made my little dog look like Cujo. puking, foaming at the mouth, etc...but she was fine. I wanted to kill the frog, though.
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You should catch the frog, harvest the ooze and sell it to hippies. They pay high dollar for that kind of thing. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
oh man, sorry to hear that happened. Don't be embarrassed even for a bit about "it's only a dog" kind of stuff. I have three kids but had a dog (Fred) he was a boxer. I have to tell ya, the love I had for him was damn close to what I have for my kids. Well, kinda. Anyway, he had an episode like that once and it threw me for a spin, I was terrified for days for him.
Hope all is well.
 
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