Sick pup
Willie seems to not be feeling very well. He woke us up at 4 this morning scratching at the door to be taken out, which is definitely not typical. He always sleeps through the night at the foot of our bed. I've never once been awakened in the night by him needing to go out. So, I got up, layered up (snowstorm, here) and walked him. We made it halfway around the block before he pooped a HUGE pile (solid, though, no diarrhea), and then, under five minutes later, did the same thing again. He typically doesn't have to go in the night, he goes when we wake up and walk him in the a.m. But he definitely had to go.
Then, this a.m., he got up and walked kind of listlessly around and hasn't asked to go out yet. He was retching, but didn't throw anything up, and then about an hour later, the retching started again, and a small amount of yellowish-clearish stuff came up (probably stomach acid/bile?). Now he's lying curled up, since that happened, and I know he's not feeling well, because he's allowing me to sit and eat a bowl of yogurt without moving a muscle to come over and try to lick the bowl and beg and snatch the spoon. In the entire time we've had him, I've never once known him to leave anybody alone for a second with food involved, but he couldn't care less, so I know he doesn't feel well.
He's never been sick before, since we got him. I feel like a mom with a newborn who's sick for the first time.
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