Reply #16: I'll be the asshole who says give it a little more time.

[Kali]

We just had a little "incident" with the new dog last weekend.

Saturday Lupe and I were out in the cold and wind all damn day and towards the end of the day it rained a little bit. She was fine - working cattle and rowdy as hell when it rained. That night, or rather very early in the morning she had a few kind of dry hacking puke episodes - produced a little foam but not really much in the way of vomit.

Sunday all day she was increasingly lethargic and trying to puke - eating grass and making small puddles of greenish foam with a bit of grass. Now this is a Mexican street dog and she finds and eats all kinds of disgusting things - usually with no effect whatsoever. Thought maybe she got something REALLY bad or possible a bone stuck somewhere. The attempted vomiting stopped and she was just sleeping like somebody who didn't feel well. That night we had several globs of mucusy, bloody diarrhea - on the living room floor (oh, JOY!) Figured I would be taking her in to the vet first thing in the morning (no real emergency service out here and I don't have that kind of money) It wasn't a lot of blood, but it was definitely there.

Monday morning a couple more little squirts, but she was feeling way better - tried to play with the other dogs and drank quite a bit of water. Didn't want to eat anything but the squirts and puking were over so I decided to wait another day. Tuesday she ate some rice and turkey broth in the morning and that evening regular food. She was fine.

We think maybe she got a hold of a toad. It was cold and even got down to freezing Saturday and Sunday night, but believe it or not there was a small toad out on the porch after it rained (we are ALL a little desperate for moisture around here)

She was 100% by Tuesday night-Wednesday morning. Don't know what else it could have been.

If the dog will drink and maybe eat a little rice I'd wait to go to the regular. If it goes into shock symptoms or otherwise seems REALLY distressed, then I'd be thinking the emergency clinic.