Last night I took a nap after work until 8:30, made myself dinner, rented Syriana, and hung out until about 2:00 AM when Buddy came downstairs and laid down in front of the coffee table.

Buddy doesn’t appreciate when the two of us are not in the same room at the same time. He really loves his spot next to my side of the bed and routinely “hides” up there when scary stuff is going on (like the vacuum) so he apparently feels the need to herd us into the same room or at least split his time between the two.

Anyway, he came downstairs right around the time I was planning on going to bed (2 AM). He laid himself down next to the opposite side of the coffee table from where I was. I called him over and he sauntered over and laid down. Within seconds he started gagging and soon after a pile of puke appeared on the floor. I called him into the kitchen where he left two smaller piles.

I can’t handle puke of any kind. It probably all goes back to when I was 7 or so, had some bad pizza, and ended up puking all over the white carpet in my room. It smelled like rotting cheese in there for a week — I slept in the guest room for a month.

Anyway, I immediately woke Kim up and made her clean up the mess. On my way into the bedroom I saw another small pile on the carpet at the top of the stairs. The poor dog.

Kim started cleaning up the mess and I took Buddy outside to walk it off. After I brought him in the house he was looking really out of it and threw up some foam. Kim was concerned that his stomach might have “flipped” (almost always fatal) and decided to stay up for a while to make sure he was ok. I felt he turned around almost immediately after that last one so I figured he was going to be fine.

At about 10 to 4 we were back in bed and I set the alarm for 6:45 to check on him again. He was happy as can be and at 8:30 I let him out of the kitchen to come and lay upstairs with us again.

I am going to toss his current food and buy another bag. I can’t think it was anything else and because of that I guess that’s the best we can do. I certainly don’t need to see any more piles of puke.