Would eating hot food make a dog really really sick?

[bentneckwine1]

Hello...I would be grateful for any advice you might be able to give me.

DS dropped his full plate of food as he carried it to the table this evening. As I ran back into the kitchen to get a cloth my dog sneaked in and took advantage of the fact that there was roast beef, tatties and gravy all over the floor!!
Guessing that she was likely to be in trouble the daft dog scoffed the food so quickly and without hardly chewing it - so I wasn't surprised when she vomited it all back up shortly after.

However I am getting a bit worried now because she has kept being sick at least once an hour since. To begin with the vomit was obviously what she had eaten...then it changed to gloopy yellow bile...until the last time a few moments ago which was thick brown liquid.
She is drinking plenty of water and I gave her a handful of dry cornflakes a couple of hours ago. (I was hoping they would maybe soak up the bile in her stomach and thought that they might be better than dry dog biscuits)

She has just been outside and poo'd normally. She doesn't appear to be in pain -whimpering and is moving around ok.

So does anyone have any suggestions of what I could do to make her more comfortable this evening? I will call the vet in the morning if she continues to be sick and ask for their opinion. Is it likely that she has done herself some damage internally?

Thanks

Hello All

So we have been to the vet who had a good poke around - much to the dog's disgust!! The vet doesn't think that there is damage caused by hot food because the dog was too perky/lively when getting examined and not in any sign of distress.

However he did say that it is possible that the stealing of the food was just a coincidence with all the vomiting and that there may be something else causing the sickness. He checked the dog's back passage (TMI - sorry) and removed some hard lumps that he thought could be wood/twigs and asked if the dog chewed sticks. She doesn't really but does have a thing for plastic bottle tops.

She hasn't to get any food over night and I have to only give her water every hour or so to try and settle the vomiting.

Tomorrow morning she has to go back to the vet for them to look again and probably have an xray to be sure of the situation.

She has been sick again since we came home from the vet - so I am glad that I managed to get her seen today. I sometimes worry about being the doggy equivalent of PFB!!

Thank you all for the good wishes.

Glad she is not getting worse - but the regular vomitting is still worrying.

It may well be she has eaten something out in the garden and it is stuck. I would not hang around too long before getting the dog scanned.

Mutt, the vet was very good...but I did get a little row about the dog's recent weight gain. I am guilty of clearing leftovers into her bowl and she usually gets bits and pieces throughout the day like last bite of my biscuit.
He weighed the dog and wrote it down so now I will have no excuse for letting it get any worse.

ABetaDad, I think the plan is to xray her tomorrow morning when I take her back to the vet. She is walked round the park on the lead so I would know if she had eaten something there - but she does wander around the garden for a long time without me always paying attention to what she is sniffing at.

Something she is bad for is stealing the cat poo out of the litter tray. So I bought a covered tray with a flap to try and stop her from being able to do that. Only problem is that the kitten won't use the cat flap on the tray so I have had to take that off...most of the time the kitten poos in the far corner of the covered tray which is fine. But occasionally the kitten will poo at the entrance of the tray and I have caught the dog with her head through the space stealing poo.

I stop her stealing poo because it is gross...but assumed that it wouldn't actually do her any harm...I hope.

Thanks again for your interest.

eating poo wont hurt him, usually the advice for a dog that is eating his own poo is to put some pineapple with his dinner - apparently makes the poo taste bad ! But you could try giving pineapple to the cat, a couple of chunks mixed into his meal. Might work.

Hope there is no blockage - fingers crossed for you.

how is the dog today?

Hi Lucy - thanks for asking how she is - we are just home from the vet.

The vet had another good poke about everywhere and he said that the dog does not feel as impacted or swollen as she did yesterday. Her back passage was clear and no sign of any lumps or solid mass that she might be struggling to pass. The dog has not been sick since around 8pm last night and she had kept down water this morning before we went to the vet.

So the vet is hopeful that we have passed the worst of whatever it was that was troubling poor dog. I have to feed her only one tablespoon of wet food (no biscuits as they might irritate her stomach) every hour today. If she tolerates that then tomorrow I have to feed her two tablespoons of food every two hours and continue to gradually increase it over next fews days to her normal levels of food.

However the vet did say that should the dog be sick again I have to phone and they will see her straight away for the xray...but he seemed hopeful that this would not be the case.

Thank you all for your interest and concern.