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Dog most likely has Megaesophagus They have to eat sitting upright like that otherwise food doesn’t reach their stomach properly and they will throw it up. Common with certain breeds of dogs or dogs with Addison’s Disease. Source: My pup has Addison’s disease and for a time we thought the has this as well. The chair is called a Bailey chair if anyone is curious. Pretty easy to train a dog to sit in it, but they have to be in the chair for several minutes after they are done eating to ensure the food has properly reached their stomach.
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@Natural Sarcasm , imma give you a great example! My folks Rottie! She gets bad gas... like baaaaad gas if her bowl is on the floor. My folks raised the bowl to shoulder level and no more gas! Her vet is so impressed... tried to figured out what made her have gas and is like the way she swallowes up her food that made her swallow more air.
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@seeUpee, oh this just came to mind. So my brother has this condition where the sphincter that connects the esophagus to the stomach couldn’t relax to let air out. So if he needed to burp he literally couldn’t. I wonder if that’s something that can happen to dogs. It just seems like if the issue was swallowing air the dog would just burp it out. Hell blue let’s out 2 or 3 massive burps after eating every meal
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@Natural Sarcasm , they has stomach issues for a while, they where tall to where they had to suck in more air to get their muscles in their throat to swallow harder and bring the food into the body, but when they eat Strait on , they don’t breath as hard and damage their stomach, they did at one point need stomach surgery sadly
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@DrSin, I get it in theory but the esophagus is an interesting muscle, at least in humans. We can literally eat or drink while upside down as the muscles in the esophagus contract like waves forcing everything into the direction of the stomach. And we can only breath after it’s passed the valve that allows airflow into our lungs. I wonder if/how different this is with dogs
Please go to your dinner table