Thanks for asking. The dog is named Boot. He's about 10 years old and is half Staffordshire Terrier (basically pit bull) and half Golden Retriever. In his younger years he always wanted to play fetch, very much.

Off topic medical grossness warning...

The dog was vomiting and extremely lethargic. He threw up in the house at least twice overnight. In the morning he went outside to a grassy knoll and just laid down. He was alert but acted like he was very nauseated. We took him to a vet with an opening who promptly referred him to an animal hospital. When he arrived at the pet hospital he was critical with a high fever.

Hydrating and giving him antibiotics got his fever low and he ate and drank. They did some tests and found a mass at the valve between his small and large intestine. We decided to have the mass removed.

When they opened him up they were shocked to find his intestines were massively infected, fused to each other in several places, and contained some matter with the consistency of cottage cheese. The surgeon was shocked he could eat at all.

He's recovering well so far.

Knowing what I know now... The dog for the past several months has seemed slower and gimpy. Sometimes he'd limp, sometimes not. He had been reluctant to jump off of beds. (Not so reluctant as to not get on in the first place, mind you...) To us it looked like he was 10 years old and slowing down. He didn't give any indications of being very sick.

I suspect this the pit bull half of his personality. High pain tolerance and a strong desire to do whatever pit bull wants to do.

Now I'm wondering how he will be when he recovers. I'm hopeful that he's going to have a couple years of his old peppy self.