[lemonlauren]

OK, so it started out small. Nikko (about 7 1/2 mo old now) would spit up water if he gulped down too much of it in once sitting. I know that's relatively common.

Recently, after his neuter, he has become less active - likes to nap more often, and isn't as keen on such long walks as he used to be. Which is really neat... more time to love on him and annoy him with kisses and petting while he's trying to sleep, lol.

However, he now doesn't eat very consistently, and when he does he eats his whole day's worth of food too fast all in one sitting, often after he hasn't really eaten much if at all the day before. He is doing the same thing with water - he doesn't drink at night (obviously because he's sleeping), then he won't drink for another eight or twelve hours after he wakes up. Then finally, a handful of hours before we go to bed, he guzzles water like he's been lost in the desert for a week.

I don't understand this. Along with ramping up his eating and drinking binging and fasting obsession, he's started spitting up his water more often, and little bits of food often come up with it. Not his whole meal - just some bits. Just tonight, after a mass binge, he has spit up onto the floor three separate times, and I've seen him spit up into his mouth then swallow it before it came out at least three or four more times. He often wakes up from napping to jump down on the floor and spit up, so it's not that he's being too active and jostling his stomach contents around too much.

What gives? Should I start not letting him eat as much at a time, or drink as much? That's going to be my first step - some rationing. But is there some other underlying factor that might be bringing this behavior on? I feel like I have a bulemic teenager puppy, and it's making this mommy really start to worry!

Lauren & Nikko