i walked into my dining room earlier today and found a pile of vomit with blood in it - i immediately panicked and rushed him to closest animal hospital fearing the worst as i lost my last shepherded in a similar fashion

vet said its most likely from hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. shes going to run more tests to confirm it and keep him overnight possibly tomorrow night as well.

any brahs ever had their pups get this before? i cant lose another one of my boys brahs i'll fall apart. hes only a year and a half old (ded fkn Srs)

feels sad man


pic of my boy Odin:

Get well soon Odin brah

I know shepherds are prone to their stomach twisting in their belly and as long as it is caught fast, they’re usually fine.

No experience with that. Hope it’s all okay tho and just a scare

not quite the same, but sorta similar after ingesting a lot of wood and then did vomit it up which caused some damage

first vet told us not to worry, but clearly he wasnt doing well so we got a second opinion
second vet told us we could wait another day for a local appt or to drive 3hrs to emergency hospital (due to covid, they were all by appt only???, so this was the next available appt)
third vet did a barrage of tests, told us they found nothing but needed to do imaging and their tech had just walked out so we had to wait until the next day, fortunately we did make that appt with the local vet so we drove back
4th vet did some more imaging, inconclusive and agreed they should open him up because clearly he wasnt right.

long story short, he was fine, just a LOT of inflammation, eso****eal damage from the wood going down and back up again, and the real killer was the self induced bronchitis and from the refusal of him to eat/drink he was very lethargic. solution? pills to coat his esophogus and stomach for comfort, and an anti cough pill, he was eating and drinking like normal within 24hrs, and perfectly fine in about a week or so with pills

vet bills? no insurance, so it was around $6000-10000, cant remember, the procedure to open him up was a $3-4k cash deposit

I hope it's just a fluke thing and and everything turns out ok. I thought it was smaller dogs that are more prone to hemorrhagic gastroenteritis.

Give him lots of hugs.

Gosh darn that’s awful brah

How old is he?

Is he fully vaxxed?

My pup was in emergency for four days with something similar made a full recovery

Fuk, that sounds rough. Stay safe, Odin