Rakka ate a whole tub of margarine...
Yeah. And she puked most of it on my bed and the rest of it all around the rest of the upstairs. This was overnight. I let her out in the morning and she just curled up in the snow and slept. She refused to come in for a long time, but then I got her to come in. She's just been sleeping in her crate ever since then.
It looks like she vomited up all the margarine, or at least most of it. She seems to feel really crappy, though. At what point should she go to the vet, I wonder. Maybe I should call them.
It looks like she vomited up all the margarine, or at least most of it. She seems to feel really crappy, though. At what point should she go to the vet, I wonder. Maybe I should call them.
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I'm surprised she did this... when we saw the tub knocked off the counter and licked clean, we figured Sosuke, but Rakka's the one who puked up at least a tub's worth of greasy, yellow slime. I figured since she did vomit it, she'd most likely be fine.
I'll have to get Noah to take her in tomorrow (I'll be at work) unless she's completely back to normal. I should have taken her in earlier. I didn't know about pancreatitis... that's nasty. I see a symptom is depression, which would explain why she's just not doing anything. She only seemed to be in pain while she was vomiting, now she just seems sad.
Sometimes it can take several days for any acute signs after initial ingestion, but with some dogs it can be completely spontaneous or chronic. Acute pancreatitis is a big concern with dogs who counter surf and is one of the big reasosns most Vets will try to frighten owners away from giving even the smallest table scrap. It can be really awful to treat. Signs I have seen are guarded abdomen (owners sometimes mistake this for back pain and it turns out to be pancreatitis), and almost always vomiting with slimey yellow diarrhea. The dogs appears listless and ill, with a very mopey depressed expression and a funky odor from the bile. You're right, there isn't much for treatment except IV fluids, no food, and sometimes steroid injections, antiemetics and antibiotics, and eventually a bland diet of rice and broth. In worst cases, dogs can experience acute necrotizing pancreatitis, which is very serious.
@Hinata23 Ren had a day of vomiting bile twice the same day Goro had an upset stomach. It's as if they were all girls working in the same office lol :P
Noah said he offered her some margarine just to see her reaction and she was like, "Uhh... NO."
I'm glad she is doing better.
Have you tried using resolve on your mattress? The kind made for clothes. I used it on mine when Jerzzee threw up on my bed. Oxyclean works good, too.
My heeler dog long ago ate (seriously) a 1/2 of a new bag of dog food when my roommate left the pantry door open! I thought for sure I was going to loose him to impaction or something! He made it through fine... a normally "decently fit" dog and he looked like an overstuffed pillow!! That was a scary few days - the funny part of it though is that the day after he was begging for his normal breakfast and dinner - the lil food monger!!! He was incapable of saying, " no"!!
@Hondru good to know Rakka is ok . When Taki ate some funky stuff she had a fluid pouch inserted under the skin on her back - looked like a little camel xD.