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Puking... or not

Posted : 4/18/2006 7:45:59 PM

I've got a 10 y/o GSD that refuses to throw up.

It all started about 3 years ago. After taking her out, we came back in and as I was getting ready to shower (meaning I had no clothes on) I heard her start hacking and retching so as I ran back into the other room (all the while pulling clothes on) she threw up. I then biatched and complained about the timing and almost breaking my neck while trying to let her out. I cleaned up the puke, gave her some loving, took a shower and went to work.

Since then...

She will not throw up while I'm around. Example... We'll be out for a walk and I notice she starts the doggie puking ritual. She will keep her mouth shut and swallow it than let it out. I've even let her off the leash to give her space but no. She then comes back to me with strands of doggie puke dangling from her muzzle.

How in the hell am I supposed to do anything about this? I can't praise her for puking in the house when I come home because it will be well after the fact. I can't praise her for puking outside when I'm around because she won't puke.

The thing that pisses me off the most is that it's because I yelled after she puked inside but that was almost three friggin years ago! Angry

I'm starting to think prozac will be the only solution.

Any help is appreciated.

loveukaykay

Posted : 4/18/2006 11:33:03 PM

Awww poor girl! Maybe if you come home and there is throw up you can bring her over to it and not praise her but gently pet and comfort her next to it before cleaning it up. Maybe stay very calm when she is about to in front of you... she may sense your intenseness (even though its cause you want to help her get it out) and she may think you will get mad. I wish I had more for you... I hope you can get it figured out because that doesnt seem good at all to me... their bodies throw it up to get it out of the system, I wonder how bad it is to swallow it right back... then again some dogs eat it. I feel so bad for her I cant imagine a dog doing that.

spiritdogs

Posted : 4/19/2006 6:09:45 AM

Perhaps it is you who should be taking the Prozac, LOL. That way, you'll remember not to yell at her for anything else. Dogs learn best by being rewarded for good behavior, and having bad behavior ignored - if they never get anything for it, they stop doing it.
The next time she's in another room and you hear that she has puked, gently say "yes" and throw her a cookie (of course, if she pukes it up, say nothing [

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marynh

Posted : 4/19/2006 7:26:22 AM

you get upset with her when she puked, now you are upset cause she won't puke....ignore it.

Julie Byers

Posted : 4/19/2006 9:32:29 AM

How come you are so upset over throw up? What does the vet say about the dog vomiting? Sounds like the dog knows you get tense about it and tries to conceal it from you. Dogs know when their people get uptight, and they try to keep the peace but in the case of a body function where they can't control their own stomach ejecting food, it's gonna come out, strained thru the teeth. It's not you that's throwing up, so take it easy. Look to the source, not the symptom.

Jules

glenmar

Posted : 4/19/2006 9:36:20 AM

Granted I'm an old fart, but I don't appreciate posts that are full of swearing. Dogs puke. Dogs poop, dogs pee. Stuff happens. You deal with it and try to keep laughing while you clean it out from between your toes. Poor dog. However, I would want to know WHY my dogs was feeling the need to vomit so much......

loveukaykay

Posted : 4/19/2006 1:22:30 PM

I must admit its strange to hear that you yelled ta your dog for throwing up inside, they cannot help that... my dogs are not throw up trained, and each and every time had been inside somewhere because they dont think to go out during that sort of thing. I dont even yell at them on the rare occasion one has a bad diarrhea night in our bedroom (which is almost never but still)... again I dont think they can help it sometimes.

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Posted : 4/19/2006 2:59:42 PM

Just [sm=2cents.gif] but there really is never a *convenient* time for a dog (or a kid or anyone else) to puke, or have diarrhea or whatever. You just deal with it, clean it up and don't make the poor pooper or puker feel like they did something wrong. I think it would be really very hard to train a dog to go outside to puke, because it's not a once/twice a day thing like pooping is - with any luck at all, it should be a rare occurrence. If it happens a lot, it might be time for a visit to the vet.

Joyce & Max

Jason

Posted : 4/19/2006 5:38:54 PM

Thanks for the responses. I don't think I made myself clear. I didn't yell at her for throwing up. It was more of the after the fact "Oh Crap!" because I was too late to let her out plus almost breaking my neck trying to get pants on while running.

Every time we are outside and she feels the urge, I try to keep my distance and I also try to comfort her by saying good girl but I don't know if that helps or tells her to not throw it up. If it's something like food, she will get it all out (which has happened maybe three times ever). All of her puking is bile and it might be once a month if that. I don't yell at her or pull the guilt card even if she has an accident in the house. Sorry if I didn't include that much information.

Oh yeah, I've tried Prozac and it didn't help

loveukaykay

Posted : 4/19/2006 7:07:47 PM

I know dogs will throw up occasionally but why would she be throwing up that often? Maybe shes getting into something in the yard? Have you asked the vet about that?

Its similar with me and my dogs as to what you said, I dont yell or anything I used to just try to hurry and grab them (as gentle as possible) to get them out, or hurry to grab a towel or something, but that made them run away... so I finally just went slowly to them to pet them while they did it, then cleaned it up. I think the petting while they did it is something they took comfort in because now they run to me when they are about to... again thats hardly ever.

astaracheetah

Posted : 4/19/2006 7:23:26 PM

I agree with a vet visit... maybe then you can find out why she's doing that and stop her from doing it anymore. >o.o<

Jason

Posted : 4/19/2006 8:30:10 PM

From what I've read here, the bile indicates a hungry dog and that may be since I only feed her at night. If it was once a week or even nine times a month I'd get her checked out. She doesn't puke once a month. She has gone three months without an incident. I'm starting to think it's an allergy because it happens only during the spring/summer months.

I only posted this because she did the puke thing the day before I posted the OP.

Where is all the cursing that Glenda is talking about? I posted "Hell" and "pisses" but I don't think that is cursing. Maybe I'm just from a younger generation that isn't bothered by the word hell or piss???

If I was out of line. Call me out. I won't take it personally.

loveukaykay

Posted : 4/19/2006 11:48:42 PM

I dont think you were out of line...

Allergies may be a cause, not sure tho...

spiritdogs

Posted : 4/20/2006 4:28:31 PM

Amy, you must be young, too, LOL. My mother always told me that if what you say is offensive to an elder, you should stop doing it when talking to that elder. Glenda doesn't mind accurate descriptions (go look in the archives and search on "penis") LOL, but I can sympathize with not wanting to see "bitchin" or "friggin" on the forum. I'm an old trucker, so I have heard just about every obscenity under the sun, from here to Hades and back, but I think we probably can live without it here, too.
At any rate, I agree that an empty stomach might produce vomited bile. One thing you can do, if you don't want to feed two meals, is to make sure you toss Phydeaux a healthy dog biscuit or two so that his little tum won't be totally empty. I do this and use Innova Health Bars or Canidae Snap Biscuits.

glenmar

Posted : 4/20/2006 5:08:46 PM

Or hell or pissing, Anne! I readily admit to being an old fart, but, that said, I could make a drunken sailor blush. Heck, I'm an overgrown hippie. And just ask Lori about what came out of my mouth when the hot coffee slopped on my leg when we were down there searching for Sadie....However, there is a time and a place for being crude and on a public message board that children can acess, well, that's not the place.