Dog ate vegetable oil - throwing up

My golden retriever puppy, age 8 months, got up on his back legs and ate
vegetable oil out of a pot on the stove (my husband made some
Christmas stuff and left it out overnight to cool so we could throw it
out). He has been throwing up - twice shortly afterwards, and then I
had to go to an appointment, so I put him in the bathroom upstairs so
that he wouldn't cause too much damage - came home about an hour later
and he had thrown up. I thought maybe that was all of it and put him
outside for a bit. He came back in and threw up on the steps, turned
around and threw up in the hallway and then went into the kitchen and
threw up again. He seems fine otherwise. He's outside right now.

My husband doesn't think he needs to go to the vet - my vet is closed
anyway - everything I find online regarding ingesting vegetable oil is
about GIVING it to puppies to help their digestive. That clearly isn't
helping.

Anyone have any ideas?

Chris O'Meally

It's quite possible that the excess fat has caused acute pancreatitis -
you should bring him to a vet if this vomitting continues - pancreatitis
is nothing to fool around with.

Flip

Christine O'Meally wrote:

> My golden retriever puppy, age 8 months, got up on his back legs and ate
> vegetable oil out of a pot on the stove (my husband made some
> Christmas stuff and left it out overnight to cool so we could throw it
> out). He has been throwing up - twice shortly afterwards, and then I
> had to go to an appointment, so I put him in the bathroom upstairs so
> that he wouldn't cause too much damage - came home about an hour later
> and he had thrown up. I thought maybe that was all of it and put him
> outside for a bit. He came back in and threw up on the steps, turned
> around and threw up in the hallway and then went into the kitchen and
> threw up again. He seems fine otherwise. He's outside right now.
>
> My husband doesn't think he needs to go to the vet - my vet is closed
> anyway - everything I find online regarding ingesting vegetable oil is
> about GIVING it to puppies to help their digestive. That clearly isn't
> helping.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Chris O'Meally