Hi My husband and I recently got a new puppy, we are so excited. She's a 8 week old poodle cross we decided to name "Spork", and she's SUCH a doll. She is doing really good in the areas that made me a little sceptical about getting a puppy (house training being the biggest!). She goes potty outside as soon as we go out, no messing around! She sleeps through the night in her crate, or at least until the sun comes up, but that's better than I expected.
My husband and I have tried the rescue route and had two utter flops that have been crushing for me, but I guess the third try is a charm But there's a few things I'm worried about with her. Granted it's been ages since I've had a puppy so this could be totally normal... but I've forgotten in the 10 years since my last girl was a pup. The biggest thing that's worrying me is that the first few mornings we had her she would actually make to throw up, but nothing would come up, mostly because it was early and she hadn't eaten yet, I assume. She still eats and poops fine (nice and solid, nothing runny or gross), and plays, and does all the puppy stuff.
We went to the vet a couple days after getting home, think it was Friday (wanted to give her a bit of time to adjust before taking her to get prodded). The vet said everything looked great except a few spots where the poor girl's really been bothered by fleas, so he gave us some flea meds, and the bugs seem to have cleared up so just waiting on the spots to heal. I asked about the trying to puke thing and he said it was just from change in diet. She had been eating watered down puppy formula some dry food and chicken... stuff. Being from the states where we feed dry food and dry food only (considered the best thing by our vet and what my family has always had sucess with) I was not about to feed her chicken stuff, it was gross So I accepted that that must be it, and went along with little Spork. She puked, or tried to, again the next day, and then was fine again until yesterday, when she did it twice. But she's been fine all day today.
Question being, does this sound like a normal puppy-changing-food thing? Or... should we go see another vet? I'm just really worried as I don't think I could stand to not have this little angel, she's been really easy to get attatched to. Also, where is a good vet on the North side of Brisbane? We went to the closest since the husband nabs the car each morning and I have to walk to get places (boo hiss). I have a feeling I could steal the car for a day though to get to a vet if we need to. We're in the Kallangur/Strathpine area, but yeah...
Thanks in advance guys, you always seem to have good advice for people
