The dog's been throwing up all day.

[Wowbagger]

Delightful.

I wonder whether it's associated with the fact that mice have been dancing a hornpipe in his food bowl.

Can dogs catch gutrot from mice?

[border-rider]

Not unless the food's been down long enough for any contamination to take hold and grow, I wouldn't think.

[Wowbagger]

We've not been leaving any food in his bowl. If he doesn't eat it straight away it goes into a mouse-proof box and comes out again later. The mice, however, have learned that his bowl is a food source and I occasionally hear a metallic "ting!" as they jump in and out of his bowl.

It's just been sterilised and will be kept upside down when not in use.

[Kim]

The mice, however, have learned that his bowl is a food source and I occasionally hear a metallic "ting!" as they jump in and out of his bowl.

Landmines!

[Wowbagger]

The mice, however, have learned that his bowl is a food source and I occasionally hear a metallic "ting!" as they jump in and out of his bowl.

Landmines!

In the name of the late Princess of Wales, go and wash your mouth out!

[Hot Flatus]

Mice wee everywhere. My dogs once got exceedingly ill when mice started eating their dog biscuits. I didn't even realise we had mice until I noticed their multi-coloured droppings.

[Kathy]

Have any neighbours put down rodent poison? Doggy may have found a tasty smackeral of something in the form of a dedd mousie (or rat) and gulped it down. This used to happen with our landlord's dog all the time - though the landlord was adamant that the poison wasn't working because he never saw a dead rat. 

[Jaded]

Mice wee everywhere. My dogs once got exceedingly ill when mice started eating their dog biscuits. I didn't even realise we had mice until I noticed their multi-coloured droppings.

The dogs could just have been eating the next-door neighbours kids toys.

[Kim]

Or concrete / car batteries...

[Wowbagger]

Have any neighbours put down rodent poison? Doggy may have found a tasty smackeral of something in the form of a dedd mousie (or rat) and gulped it down. This used to happen with our landlord's dog all the time - though the landlord was adamant that the poison wasn't working because he never saw a dead rat.  

We have only one set of neighbours nearby and I don't know whether they've put poison down. Knowing our dog, I'd be quite surprised if he'd eat anything dead he'd found: on walks, we've come across the occasional corpse and he's either ignored it or given it a cursory sniff and moved on. He's not very well motivated by food. He doesn't spend much time in the garden either: just two or three charges out each day to woof at the pigeons and then usually comes straight back in.

[Mrs Pingu]

Mice wee everywhere.

They have no bladder. Yeuch. Mousie wee-wee everywhere they walk.  

And if anyone's put poison down I hope it's well hidden. My friends' dog ate rat poison and it was not a happy ending