Puking dog

[Big Dave2]

I have an 18 month old Brittany. About 3 out of 7 mornings she will drink her water first thing in the morning like she is super thirsty and puke it up about 5 minutes later.

We let her have water available to her until about 8 or 9 pm before we take it away for the night. She goes into her kennel for the night sometime between 10 and 11 pm. She gets out of her kennel in the morning at about 6:30 am.

I understand she might be thirsty sometimes in the morning but is there anything I can do to keep her from vomiting up her water so much? The only thing that seems to work is to only give her a little bit of water, like just enough to cover the bottom of her dish, at a time. The problem with this is that I am afraid that some morning we will forget to keep giving her water and this is all she will end up getting until noon when I go home and let her outside.

I've had dogs that drank all their water at one time sometimes but I have never had one that constantly pukes it up.

Any advise?

[kentuck_ike]

This is a bit odd, she hasn't been around any mouse poison, this will sometimes increase thrist. I would fill her dish with ice cubes. she will only be able to drink as fast as they melt, and would just melt to fill her dish so you don't have to worry about forgetting.

Ike

[Big Dave2]

Hi Ben,

No, I would say there is no way she could have come into contact with mouse poison. We don't use any and she never leaves our fenced in yard.

She has done this quite a bit ever since we got her. I just thought she would grow out of it as she got older but she just did it this morning.

The ice idea is good but I think she would just pull them out and play with them, then we would just have little puddles of water all around when they melt. I might try it though and see if it works.

[MN Greenheads]

Sounds like she was out drinkin the night before. AA sounds like your best solution.

Seriously, you should call a vet, she may have a kidney or pancreas problem. Good luck and I hope she's okay.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My Dane will do this on occasion (rare, though, maybe once a month). If she's anything like my dog, she'd love the ice, but like you said, there would be puddles everywhere

Since it is happening so frequently, I would bring it up to the vet.

[kingr]

My dog used to do that as well. You'd think he hadn't seen water in days. What I did was just give him half as much right away in the mornings or take it away when you think he had enough. He's 15 months old. At first i thought it kinda funny/cute. Then he puked it up on the bedroom carpet. Not so funny anymore!

That seems to work for me. After the first gorging of water after i feed him he's fine for the day, just drinks when he's thirsty.