A few nights ago, at around midnight, she sicked up a pile of vomit the size of a loaf and with a smell that one struggles to describe.
Luckily she cleared it all up herself. She is helpful, like that.
At 4am Posy and her friend Lulu woke up and asked to be let out.
When they came back in we all kipped on the sofa. Posy lay down with her muzzle close to my ear.
Crunch crunch crunch.
As one never knows what she has in her mouth and whether it might precipitate an emergency trip to the vet, I woke up, plunged fist down throat and pulled out a piece of foil from a sweet wrapper. Washed hands. Kipped down. Posy lay down with her muzzle close to my ear.
Crunch crunch crunch.
Oh no - what is it this time? Plunged fist down throat and pulled out piece of fabric with button attached. Where on Earth...? Washed hands. Kipped down.
Crunch crunch crunch.
Not AGAIN?
Plunged fist down throat and pulled out a coat button in a small plastic bag. Washed hands.
That's when I spotted it.
Posy's friend Elvis the cat had knocked over and smashed an earthenware pot in which had accumulated all sorts of bits and pieces, and this was where Posy was getting her choice morsels.
Swept up mess. Washed hands. Kipped down.
This time Posy slept with her bottom in my face.
And farted.
It was a long night. Golden Retrievers. Don't you just love 'em?
Been there, done that, had the golden retriever owning T-shirt (Goldie's best was a complete (already dead) bird). I've always felt the canine enthusiasm for eating your own vomit was not exactly a survival trait.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's the only way for them to get a hot meal?
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DeleteI have a hypothesis about dog vomit. No, seriously. I suspect that dogs vomit mainly when they are too hot, and the evaporative cooling of panting is insufficient. Vomiting is a very quick, efficient way to shed a lot of heat. Eating it up when it's a bit cooler restores water and salts to the body. Neat, eh?
DeleteI can sort of see that, but as they are often vomiting to get rid of something that could do them harm, there still seems a certain counter-survival aspect to it. I wonder if wolves do it, or just domesticated dogs?
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