Hey Henry glad to see all is working out.
Last week my rescue girl was acting kind of weird at 5am when I got up for work. Pacing panting wanting to go outside (unusual this early), also peed on the kitchen floor (accidents are rare) let her out and she was scouting the yard looking for grass (snow covered). She finally found one of my wife's plants (grass like).
She came in after a bit and seemed OK.
By mid afternoon my wife called me in a panic that she thinks Molly has bloat.
If you haven't done any research on bloat and you have dogs, especially bigger ones YOU NEED TO RESEARCH IT NOW!
Bloat can be fatal from mere minutes to a few hours and can be a painful death.
Deb took her to the vet (you should call first and let them know you are bringing in a possible "bloat" victim).
And true to the symptoms they dropped everything as soon as she walked through the door to start the exam.
Xrays (several series) - IV's- meds TLC and a day later I picked her up with what appeared to be only a food bloat. Didn't make sense until we checked the food bin. Since we were going away for 6 days I had filled it to the top so our neighbors wouldn't have to search for food while we gone.
Best guess is Molly figured out how to open the lid and eat what appears to be 10-12 cups or more of dry food, plus her normal morning ration of 2 cups!
So, we can't leave a dog on meds and bland diet (boiled chicken and rice) with a new feed schedule of 4 times a day instead of 2 with our neighbors, so Deb got to miss out on 6 days in sunny near freezing Florida.
$985 for our little "piglet".
Little more emphasis on the "bloat" if you haven't researched it do it now!