Doggy drama

Last night, we let the dogs run around outside in the back yard (4 ft fence FTW!) until they exhausted themselves. About an hour after they came in (and had promptly plopped themselves in the corner of the sofa on their blanket), IO got up off the couch and started to wander. Random wandering makes us nervous, so we asked him to get back on the couch which, like a good dog, he did.

A few minutes later, I got ready to go to bed, and gave Steve a kiss goodnight. I go to give the doggies one last pat on the head when I see that Napoleon has vomited all over his front paw and the blanket (thankfully!) he was laying on. Fantastic.

While Steve goes to wash Napoleon off, I start to clean up the mess. I wasn't finished 2 minutes when IO vomited on the OTHER blanket we have on the couch. Uh-oh.

Clean that up, put both dogs in the crate, and settle down for The Watch. Sure enough, IO vomits again in the crate and once more once out of the crate. Napoleon vomits another time on the kitchen floor (Steve saw that one coming and was rewarded with relatively easy cleanup), and one more vomit incident from IO (who eats a lot more grass than Napoleon does).

Now I'm starting to wonder.

I saw an awful lot of grass in the first "rounds" of vomit from both dogs. Grass tends to make dogs vomit. But you know, we also just opened new batches of food for them. It's the exact same food they had previously, just a new bag. But being that I had read an article about the brand of dog food we feed the doggies supposedly being the cause for lots of dogs vomiting only just a few weeks back on the ultra-paranoid italian greyhound list that I read, I am starting to wonder. Honestly, I wasn't convinced from reading that article that the food is to blame here. Seemed like a lot of coincindences, but what do I know? Link is here; draw your own conclusions. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/04/pet_food_recalls93.html

Meanwhile, I kept thinking. We'd fed it to them yesterday morning, and we had no doggy vomit in the crate 11 hours later. So is it really the food or is it the fact that Brian had just cut our grass today and the dogs were feasting on the clippings?? As of right now, the jury is still out. We fed them this morning (they were famished!), and Steve hasn't let me know yet if the doggies are ok upon arriving home.

Also for the first time in years, we let the doggies sleep in separate crates. I think they were so tired from being outside and from all the vomiting that IO was grateful for the alone time (he really isn't a fan of his noisy roommate when the roommate is being noisy), and Napoleon was just d-o-n-e and didn't argue with the arrangements. In fact, they each went into a separate crate on their own accord, so who knows??