Has anyone else had this problem. My 2 year old chocolate lab at least 3-4 times a week will wake up in the early morning hours and start to retch until some saliva comes up and then with do it again and after the second time will sit and then let out a loud burp and then is usually fine for the rest of the night. I've taken him to the vet done x-rays, blood work and even changed his food to a sensitive stomach kind and he still continues this very annoying behavior. He is in no distress always happy and wagging his tail. I don't know what to do at this point. The vet has no answers besides a sensitive stomach. HELP!
I have no idea if this will help but sometimes dogs do this because they’re hungry or their stomachs are empty. I know people on this forum (in the past) have given their dogs a couple of small dog biscuits, or whatever, for supper, or before bed, and Bob’s your uncle, problem ceases. Could be worth a try?
Cooper has done this once, but apparently some dogs have an ongoing problem having an empty stomach in the morning. You might feed him later in the evening also. Search this forum and also Google Hunger Pukes. I know I've seen this problem mentioned here before.
The most likely thing is hunger, but depending on how long is has been going on for, my boy had a period where he retched in the morning (only for a few days) and it turned out he had picked up cryptosporidium canis. He also had diarrhoea and lethal gas though!
Sounds like hunger pukes to me. One of ours will sometimes skip her evening meal and then suffer for it in the night.
If feeding him his dinner later doesn't help they sell automatic feeders on Amazon for around $30. I used one when my senior lab had to get pain pills every 6 hours. Feed him half of his dinner at the usual time and put the other half in the automatic feeder (or use cookies, whatever works for you), then set it to go off a couple hours before he usually gets sick. I taped a jingle bell to mine to make sure he would hear it when it opened.
That happens from time to time with my lab. I was instructed by my vet to give her famotidine (Pepcid) or zantac every night for a short week to 10 day course and it helps every time. We think that she gets acid reflux probably from eating things she should'nt (it's hard to catch her in time sometimes and she loves "kitty rocca"). Hope it helps.
