DoeEyeDog

Thank you for all the suggestions! We fed him some bland food (rice+boiled chicken) and that solved his stomach gurgling issue so you were absolutely right he was hungry. We fees him dry kibble with some treats throughout the day. He is 3 yo, and probably has pica. The hospital visits were all caused by eating random things (small plastic parts, mushroom, human food not suitable for dogs). We asked our vet if he has some parasites issue that would cause this behavior and she thought this was just behavioral. His gulping has gotten better after coming back from vet (who just did a quick exam which did not reveal any issue) but not completely gone aways so I do think we still need to work on it.

3 times a day, one at 7am, a small snack at noon, one at 8pm, a cookie at 9:30pm. That's why I'm surprised when I saw his only threw up white foam.... I thought I'd see some cookies residual.

Hi friends, I wanted to ask this before heading to our vet appointment to see if anyone has similar experience. We have a very food driven retired racer who eats anything if you let him. Today before our usual get up time, he vomited some white foam. After that, he started to do his "puking gulp" without throwing up anything (probably because there is nothing to throw up) every 5-10 minutes. His "puking gulp" is what he does everytime he is about to vomit. It's a lip smacking + gulping thing as if he is trying to swallow something. We haven't fed him since (16 hours past since dinner) and his gulping seems to subside now he is on the bed , but his stomach has been making the loud watery gurgling sound constantly. The sound is similar to the sound I make when drinking cold water too fast, but louder. What is this? Poor guy has been to hospital 5 times in the past 6 years and 4 times out of 5 was due to GI issue. I feel like a terrible dog parent seeing him so miserable Any insight is appreciated!

I'm a new greyhound parent too (3 months in) but I wanted to share my experience so far and hopefully it may offer you some comfort. Our adoption group described our dog as "confident and independent". But when he came to our home, he was extremely velcro and would bark and cry nonstop if I walk out of his sight for more than 2 seconds (tried to do some SA training). We gave up after a few attempts because it was pretty obvious he was stressed out. At about 4 weeks in, one day he miracally stopped following us around or cry when we go out of his sight. Now sometimes he would just stay on his bed in the living room while we are on the second floor working. Now I can see a bit of his confident and independent self. My humble opinion is that your dog is still really stressed out with the constant change of environment, therefore the barking and separation anxiety. These behaviors are fear based so with time, training (which builds up his confidence and self control) and your love and patience, he will settle in and you will have a different dog. A side note: dear husband also grew up with dogs. During our first two months he was also going through a lot of stress. our dog also snapped at him once when he manhandled the dog. DH was so upset at one point he was considering returning the dog as well. On the contrary I did not grow up with dog so our dog's "onboarding" was way easier on my simply because I did not have any expectations.

Wow! I'm so glad I asked here. Thank you so much for sharing this! Ours has not eaten a remote yet but I fear we are indeed progressing to that point. I definitely will take him to vet for a thorough blood work. Also I'm so glad your hound got so much better after the treatment. He is a lucky boy :)

Thank you for the suggestion! I was trying to avoid the poop guard because he doesn't seem to like breathing with the poop guard but I guess you are right I should insert it back.

We adopted our boy about 3 months ago and he’s been pretty easygoing and sweet. However in the past month he started eating random things. So far he had chewed/swallowed small plastic parts, ketchup packets, whole banana peels, pebbles/acorns/who-knows-what in our yard. We have been more careful with leaving things on places he can reach now, but it’s almost impossible to pick up all the inedible things in the yard, let alone on any given day birds or raccoons or cats can drop new things off. We’ve also started to put his muzzle on him when he goes to the yard, but today he managed to eat a small pebble even with muzzle on. He also has resource guarding and would growl and snap or bite if we try to take take things away from him. We feel extremely awful because he might get sick from eating inedible things, and in fact once he vomited after gobbling up a ketchup packet from our dining table (poor guy). We start to feel like we are two really crappy dog parents. Is this pica? Does anyone have experience dealing with this or have any advice? We haven’t taken him to see a vet yet because this is pretty recent but at this point it looks like a visit is unavoidable. Thank you everyone in advance! Some additional info: he is a 75lbs two and half year old. We feed him 4 cups of kibble with obedience training and treats throughout the day. He regularly freezes on the walk so although we try to walk him 30 minutes to an hour per day, he may or may not get that amount depending on whether he freezes. We live in a relatively big house with a medium sized yard.