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Thanks everyone for the guesses and hypotheses. We might do a DNA kit. I have heard mixed reviews about the accuracy of those. Sounds like people here think they are worth it.
We have named him Nova since he might have some NSDTR in him and we liked the sound of that.
I brought him to drill this weekend and he ended up getting pretty sick while here. He had some diarrhea on the way to the armory when we made a pit stop. He was fine Friday night but continued with the diarrhea on Saturday and wouldn't eat or drink. He got really lethargic and wouldn't do anything but sleep so I had my girlfriend meet one of my cadets between here and home and she took him to the ER vet. All the tests came back negative for parvo and other nasty stuff, but they said he was anemic and dehydrated for sure. He stayed overnight and got some IVs. I will pick him up later this evening. Right now they are saying he is doing pretty well and has eaten some and been playing. Hopefully it was just some freak thing! My almost free puppy has gotten really expensive suddenly.
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They do have a way of costing us money unexpectedly! (It's good practice for any possible future two-legged additions to the family, because those things get super expensive!)
Glad to hear he is on the mend. Poor pup!
My first "free" pup, many years ago, would get sick in the car any time I would try to take her anywhere with me, even though she enjoyed whatever we did (hiking, hanging out with friends, etc.) once we would get to our destination. She would throw up EVERY SINGLE TIME she was on a car ride for the first year I had her, which totally sucked since that year I was off at grad school, and had to make more than a few 3 hour drives to and from "home" home.
I had to clean dog barf out of my car every ride we took, long or short, even if I would hold off on feeding her breakfast (or dinner the night before, if I knew we had to drive in the morning, whatever). I had taken her to the vet early on with this issue (she had a clean bill of health) and finally got her some doggy prescription "valium" for the long trips (since the only hypothesis we could come up with was that she was either consistently car-sick from an upset tummy or sheer anxiety--we speculated that maybe she had been pitched out of a car or dumped by the side of the road, and associated car rides with "bad things," despite my efforts to make sure she had only good experiences--besides barfing--on any car ride we took).
After a year of this (a YEAR!!) one day she just stopped barfing on car rides. We went for a ride to a reserve to hike a trail we would do about once a week and that trip she did not get sick. I was surprised, but thought THAT was a fluke, I was so used to her getting car-sick. But every trip after that watershed moment was barf-free. Finally! And I don't actually know what did it...did she finally outgrow her puppy carsick tummy? I have no clue. She was actually an excellent traveler after that, we took her on all sorts of car trips, cross-country camping, you name it, and she loved it. She would sit or relax in the back, and get really happy looking out the windows when she got to see horses or cows if we passed farmyards.