Milo loves to play fetch. He is constantly bringing me his toys so I can throw them while I’m working from home.

When we were playing fetch this past weekend, he slipped off the couch and hit the coffee table. I’m not sure if he hit his head or part of his body, but there was a loud thud when he hit it, and he was visibly startled. I was holding him in my lap afterwards when he did something he’s never done before – straight peed on my thigh! I was worried bc Rocky, our old family dog, lost control of his bowels and peed himself the day before he died 🥺

Pammie chatGBT’d what to look out for to see if he had a concussion or something worse. Throwing up, unusually sleepy, walking funny… It said he could’ve just peed himself bc he got startled. He didn’t throw up, he’s been walking normal, and hasn’t been sleeping more than usual. I just walked him to Petco Park, and that usually tires him out for a bit.

Actual footage of me saying goodnight to Milo every night since this past weekend:

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Also, I think I found a way to be more unapproachable while walking Milo 😆

Pupdate 7/17/2026:

Yesterday started off normally – Milo ate his normal breakfast (Cesar’s) and we went on our usual walk around the neighborhood… I’m getting a new area rug, so I rolled up my old one and cleaned underneath it with Swiffer Wet bc junk removal is coming today to get my old mattress and I wanted them to haul my rug, too. We took a nap bc it was hot as fuck.

I woke up around 7p and immediately stepped in something wet. I didn’t think it was pee bc Milo never pees on the carpet in my bedroom. Milo had vomited. I went to the bathroom to wash my foot, and when I came back out, Milo had vomited twice more in the hallway. It was all liquid, but tinged pink in color. He has vomited before, but it’s always like one and done. Like, I used to feed him eggs, and one time I saw he threw up the scrambled eggs and I never fed him that again.

I put his dinner out (Cesar’s again – he’s a picky eater, but loves the filets in gravy), and he didn’t touch it. He sat in the bed by the window while i checked work emails at the dining table and I noticed he had thrown up on the window ledge. It had to be earlier bc it was his food from breakfast. As I was cleaning it up, he threw up pink liquid a few more times. I rushed him to the emergency vet and called my sister crying. She met me at the vet – Milo had thrown up in the car, and again in the waiting room. At that point, it was 10pm and they said it was going to be a 3-4 hour wait bc the vet was doing an emergency procedure on another animal, and I could go home in the meantime, but they would like to keep Milo there since he was throwing up blood. I went to my sister’s and tried to sleep. At 4am, they still hadn’t called, so I called them and they were just getting to Milo. They gave him anti-nausea medication and said he hasn’t thrown up since, but he had bloody diarrhea 🥺 They wanted to do bloodwork, x-rays, put him on an IV for 24 hours bc he’s super dehydrated from the vomiting and diarrhea and he’s not drinking water. I said to do everything they can, I’ll pay however much it costs.

Welp, $5K later 😅 The x-rays ruled out any blockages, so he didn’t eat any foreign objects (checked his new toys and they all still have their eyes LOL), his bloodwork was ‘unremarkable’ – slightly elevated white blood cells due to being sick and nothing else alarming, he hasn’t vomited since he got the anti-nausea meds, but he still has diarrhea – the doc said it sometimes takes a few days for his poops to become normal, but at least no more blood in his stools. He’s not eating, but the doc said the food they feed during treatment is pretty bland and a lot of animals don’t eat it. Plus, he’s already a picky eater. I’ve fed him fresh dog food since I got him, and when I tried to give him dry food like Sunday’s or Blue Buffalo, and he was like, ‘NOPE!’ But I do keep a bowl of dry food in the hallway in case he gets hungry outside of meal times, and I can hear his ass crunching on it in the middle of the night.

The doctors have been super thorough and comforting, and the staff says he’s being a good boy and is so sweet and handsome 🥹 Steven at the front desk asked about his adoption story, and I told him I got him from a rescue in LA last December, and he was like, ‘I knew he was famous!’ 😆

Please say a prayer for my sweet boi (and my wallet), and hopefully he’s well enough for me to pick him up in the morning 🤞🏼