I just wanted to share my experience with bloating. I had a 4 year old Female English Bulldog. She died last Saturday September 27th, 2014 from canine bloating something that I'd never really heard about until that day. That day started out with an appointment at 10:30am to get her nails trimmed at our vets office. They usually trim her nails in one of their exam rooms with my help holding her (she really didn't put up a fuss but she liked me there) but this time a new vet tech came out to get her and said that they were going to do them in the back. I thought it was kinda weird but didn't speak up since one of the techs is the one that always does her trim, anyway a little while later they brought her out panting as usual I paid and we left. I only stopped for gas and was home in 30 minutes. She got back up on my bed to take a nap and it seemed like she couldn't get comfortable and then she got up and was acting like she wanted to throw up so my husband took her out in our backyard and all she did was walk around and around she never did throw anything up. She tried to poop a couple of times but again nothing. That's when my husband said that it looked like she was getting bigger (swelling). We brought her inside the house and I was checking her out when I patted her on her side it sounded like tapping on a drum. I looked up bloating in dogs on the internet and it gave all the symptoms that she was having and it said that it's usually fatal and to get your dog to a vet as soon as possible. So we got her in the car and since our vet's office was closed I took her to the closest Emergency Pet Clinic which is only 10-15 minutes from our house. When I got there I couldn't her to stand up so I picked her up and set her down by my car and at that point she just laid back down and wouldn't or couldn't get up so I again picked her up with the help of my sister and we carried her into the clinic and put her on a gurney that they were bringing out to us and that's when I noticed that she wasn't breathing. They took her in the back and started CPR on her and tried to insert a tube to release the gas from her stomach and then her heart stopped and once again they did CPR and they were able to revive her and then release some of the trapped gas but it was all too much for her and her heart stopped again and they weren't able to revive her. They brought her to a room and let me say good-bye to her and let me tell you that was the hardest thing I've ever had to do and so we were there for all of 30 minutes and after charging me $900 dollars I went home ALONE. So to sum it up she hadn't eaten anything that morning for her to have ingested a lot of air while eating and the only thing she did do was pant and she did do a lot of that. But what started out as a normal day in 4 hours she was dead. I'm sorry for rambling on and on but once I started writing about it I couldn't stop. I said that day that I was NEVER getting another dog so I wouldn't have to go through that again my heart is BROKEN I can't believe that she's really gone and that she's never coming back. She was truly the LOVE of my life. I think I loved her more then my husband and my kids even as stubborn and pig headed as she was. She will always be MY BABY GIRL.