Gwen, our 11 year old lab has done this on occasion over the years but has now done it three times in the last two weeks? Any suggestion? She is not ill and doesn’t seem to be losing weight
Hi and welcome. Is she vomiting or regurgitating? Vomiting will have lots of heaving first, regurgitating, food is ejected with no effort involved. It sounds as though she's regurgitating which could be down to something as simple as eating her food too fast to a medical problem with the oesophagus or stomach. May be worth a check up with the vet if it carries on.
Our previous lab did this when he was an old boy. The vet said as they age, the oesophagus becomes less elastic, sort of baggy and when they eat, particularly fast, as mandyb says, they get a blockage and throw it back. We found feeding him with his bowl raised, on a footstool type of arrangement helped, so he wasn't leaning down so much. Good luck with Gwen.
Thank you both for that, thinking about it we do have a bowl on a stand from our previous lab so will give that a try and have booked her in for a check up. She is an anxious girl having spent her first five years as a breeding dog before she came to us
Our older lab has a slightly lax oesophagus. We have a raised table for him which helps. At the time he was diagnosed lots of other things were going on. Essentially though he was prescribed PPI's ( omeprazole) until things settled. Then a probiotic as in our case he needed them as he was prescribed antibiotics for pneumonia he was recovering from, he spent a week in hospital. Going forward he is fine, I have noticed in times of stress, pain (he is very reactive and can be anxious) he goes through a phase of regurgitation. I do hope Gwen is OK, good luck at the vets and do let us know how you get on
