Dog Vomiting Green Bile

[buffymad]

My dog who's generally healthy is being sick at the moment. He was sick a couple of times yesterday but this was just clear bile. We live near the beach so thought the salt water might have caused this (its happened before). However, he seemed fine in himself and was still eating normally. Today he seemed fine when I went to work - hadn't been sick through the night. He was sick on his morning walk out but that was just food coming out and now he's been bringing up greenish coloured bile. I'm at work so this is my boyfriend telling me what's been going on. Do you think I should wait another day and keep him off food to see if that helps? Or get a vet appointment for today?

Usually if it's to do with ingesting too much sea water/sand, he vomits a lot and feels sorry for himself and sleeps a lot - and is very withdrawn. But back to normal the day after.

This is just different as he seems fine other than being sick!

[Clanad]

Probably gastritis, which is fairly common in all dogs. An irritation of the stomach lining, it causes repeated vomiting for period of a cople of days. Can be brought on by any number of things... rotten meat, eating their own feces and possibly an overdose of sea water, as you've suspected.

Vomiting can change color from clear to yellow-green and back to clear during the period. Dog will sometimes exhibit diarrehea as well, but not usually to the really runny episodes.

Be sure to provide plenty of fresh water, to help protect the dog from dehydration during the period. Dog's temperature would probably be normal... 101 to 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 to 39.2 degrees Celcius)(we're in the U.S., btw).

Here, Mrs. C's small Zuchon recently went through the same type of episode and only help we provided was to semi-force feed some fresh water with a rubber syringe (dog hated that, of course, but made Mrs. C feel like we were doing something). We see the same thing from time to time in our working dogs.

Of course, monitor the dog, but this isn't uncommon... If he becomes very lethargic and the event continues beyond, say 3 days, take it to the vet...

[buffymad]

Well I'd looked this up on the internet (sometimes a bad thing to do!) and thought it didn't seem like something too serious. But when I phoned up a (new) vets, they said oh, if he's being sick, bring him in. Well if I brought him in every time he's being sick, I'd be there quite a lot!! That's good to hear its "normal". He has a habit of eating our cat's faeces too so that probably hasn't helped ...

[rockyracoon]

I'm sure I read a while ago about a seaweed that was being washed up and it's fatal to dogs. Get him checked at the vets and I'll see if I can find a link.

[buffymad]

On closer investigation, the "sick" was mainly fur/hair! Am assuming he's licking himself too much ...