I had a similar scare last week w/Maggie. She was sort of gagging, like she was trying to throw up but nothing was coming. It was in the morning (her morning--like 11am-she stays in bed till about 10:15) so i don't think she had been chewing. She usually just chills in the window or in front of the storm door in the morning. I put an ottoman in front of the living room window just so she can lay up there and look out.
Anyway, I saw some yellow bile spit up in her bed by the door. She will spit some of that up maybe once a month. I didn't know if she had inhaled some of it by accident or had thrown up the yellow stuff because she got something else caught in her throat. She could breathe, but she would just TRY to throw up a few times throughout the early afternoon. She'd open mouth wide and lean down and gag. I read the doggie heimlich and somewhere it said to try to hold them head down, or to give them a wack between the shoulder blades. Did that (not hard!) and she went in her cage! (she only goes in cage when bedtime or scared).
She seemed OK for the most part, I decided to do a quick bath because she got yellow stuff on her face and it smelled (HEY-maybe the smell was gagging her!). Bathed her....she did her after bath face wipe on the floor and shake and then tried to throw up again and twice got a little white stuff, like spit, out....She seemed ok and eventually i took her outside for a little natural blow dry. She was fine on the walk, gagged maybe one more time after that...and then she was fine.
It was really weird and i was prepared to throw her in the car if she had trouble breathing. She never did throw up anything solid. I think she breathed in some of her initial barf.
Sure is scary when they're doing it......Oh yes, one other thing that I think makes them barf or gag is when they get hair or a dust bunny in them. |