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Originally Posted by zyzz

Ex-girlfriend and I got a dog together about a year ago, we've recently broken up, I've decided it's better for me to just cut contact with her and let her have the dog rather then switching off every other week.

She's been messaging me saying that's he's sad, acting weird, peeing on everything and throwing up. Is this normal for dogs losing one of the pack? I'm assuming he will eventually get over it.

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One of the things that I think of first with this description is that your boy may have a Gastrointestinal Foreign Body. Dogs eat the strangest things - plastic bags, children's toys, bones, bits of towel, socks, rocks and other things. Often, these foreign bodies pass through the intestinal tract, but sometimes they do not. They may get caught in the stomach or the small intestines.


The symptoms of a GI foreign body are generally vomiting, loss of appetite, depression and dehydration. If your dog consumed an object that is caught in the stomach or small intestines, it might explain the symptoms that you are seeing. This would be particulary true if the object were something like a ball that could bob over pylorus (outflow from the stomach) and then move away again. Thus, water could pass through but not food.

In the case of an obstruction, surgery is often needed to remove the foreign object.