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no_steeze
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so i got a new puppeh about a month ago and she's always been a little strange about eating. she's a lab and most labs i know eat their food in under a minute. at the beginning she took like a half hour to eat with a lot of coaxing on our part. we tried soft, slightly wet, and totally dry food, and she still wasn't super interested. also, every meal about halfway in she goes and sits down on the floor away from her bowl, puts her ears back, and like sort of regurgitates a little ball of food and spit, and then instinctively eats that back up. she's not throwing up, just kinda spitting up. we tried elevating her bowl while she eats and it didn't seem to change much

so we switched foods gradually and the new food gave her epic diarrhea so we went back to the old one. she now eats in about 5-10 mins with no coaxing and is totally interested but she still spits up most meals. we've gotten really mixed answers from the vet, friends, and breeders as to what's causing the spitting up and if it's a problem or just something puppies will grow out of

so im jw if anyone on ns has had this happen to their puppy, she's totally gaining weight fine, she doesn't seem skinny or weak at all, she's lively, totally normal, she just spits up a little

she'll be 13 weeks this tuesday, anyone know what's up

i'll contact the vet more seriously but i get such mixed answers that i figured personal experiences would be the most helpful, i know a lot of ns'ers have dogs and know a lot about them, thanks
Sep 13 2009 11:00PM
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14.
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pics or it didn't happen
Sep 13 2009 11:01PM
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InkShrink
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My puppy did that. We took him to the vet and he said nothing was wrong. He suggested that he was from a large ltiter and was intimidated by the others so he didn't eat much. Hope you figure it out.
Sep 13 2009 11:04PM
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anxju
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my dog wont eat unless he has to, and hes developing just fine. like well pour a bowl of food for him and he'll sniff it and walk away and eat it when he's hungry. hes not a food scroundrel like most dogs either; it takes him like 10 minutes to eat an entire bowl and hes not inhaling the food the entire time. he's growing up just fine though, perfectly healthy and the cutest thing ever :)
Sep 13 2009 11:06PM
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mellifluous
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im getting a black lab in a couple of weeks..just thought i would share =)

and thats weird cuz labs are like stomachs on legs
Sep 13 2009 11:09PM
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1337
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my dog is a lab too, but she will eat anything you put in front of her in like 30 seconds, and you can just keep feeding and feeding her. Your dog must be different
Sep 13 2009 11:09PM
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no_steeze
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from a few weeks ago, she's like twice the size now

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it's not as much the eating i'm worried about as the spitting up
Sep 13 2009 11:23PM
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liaosongfang
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try running it before you feed it
Sep 13 2009 11:47PM
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Balto
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cole(my old dog that i miss very very much) was the same way, he would eat really slowly unless you hand fed him or put a treat in there, and he was a black lab
Sep 14 2009 2:06AM
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Abc567def
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sorry don't know but cute dog
Sep 14 2009 3:37AM
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SkiBumDreams
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http://www.justanswer.com/questions/1qntj-dog-spitting-milky-white
Sep 14 2009 3:54AM
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Frank_Spinatra
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the only thing that puppy suffers from is chronic cuteness
Sep 14 2009 4:53AM
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musick13
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fuckin awsome puppy
Sep 14 2009 8:46AM
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fireballin
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sometimes i would give my lab grease after frying bacon. she would eat the food in 5 seconds. I dont think that this will help with the spitting up though. labs are awesome btw
Sep 14 2009 11:02AM
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no_steeze
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its not milky white tho, it's simply half chewed food in a little ball of spit, it looks like food and saliva, nothing more to it, no puke, no liquid, no chunks of weird shit, just a regurgitation
Sep 14 2009 2:02PM
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h_bar
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i thought this was doing to be about the position often performed under the act of love, doggie.

screw you
Sep 14 2009 2:09PM
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OldManFinkyBeans
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damn,
i thought this would be a hilarious question having to do with doggy style.

Sep 14 2009 2:52PM
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Golden.
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If you need me, I'll be in my lab...
Sep 14 2009 3:03PM
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