dogs only get sick in the middle of the night. it's a rule.

[cimorene]

last night i tried to go to bed at two.  i wasn't able to fall asleep until around three, though, maybe later... and i was awakened completely before four by the extremely determined and long-lasting efforts of perry. 

he wasn't actually trying to wake me, he was horking and horking and then vomiting and then horking some more, and i kept drifting in and out of sleep waiting for him to stop, and he just didn't.  then i thought he was drinking water, but it turned out the sound was him compulsively and repeatedly licking his lips.  he kept this up--vomiting, heaving and lip-licking--for a couple of hours, during which time i tried to go back to bed three times and eventually ended up googling dog symptoms on the internet and hovering nervously over the open phonebook, which is 90% in finnish, hoping i wasn't going to have to try to call a vet in the middle of the night.  the lip-licking was what weirded me out the most because he's seven and i've never known him to do that before.  he was literally licking his lips constantly, no real breaks--just the occasional gulping, or horking--for ten, fifteen minutes at a stretch.  i didn't get to sleep until five, after drinking some chamomile and eating some medicinal chocolate (since i didn't have any xanax on hand, and that was what i really needed). 

of course now the dog seems fine, if a little smelly.  stupid canine digestive system.

Comments

dog horking

[devon.livejournal.com]

My dog used to hork and hork and hork and never vomit. It really annoyed my boyfriends - whichever one was sleeping over at the time. I learned to sleep through it, because the dog only vomited immediately after eating dinner, if he was going to. It was a totally stupid thing - he'd jump up and down and run around and get excited, then go and drink a quart of water and gulp down a bunch of food. 5 minutes later, instant vomit. Yay. :P

Re: dog horking

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, when i say vomit i mean this white or yellow foam, which is all he produces if he hasn't just eaten. i think that may be the result of eating the potted (poisonous) plants, which he eats especially to make himself barf.