Oliver is the beautiful 12yr old black Labrador that I have been dogsitting for the past month and a half. Late Thursday night we got a phone call from the vet emergency hospital that Oliver was in distress. He was taken in by his owners with a bloated stomach which later was diagnosed as “stomach torsion“. This is life threatening in dogs. He died that night of heart failure during surgery. It came as a big shock to everyone and his condition and worsened in a 2 hour span. There was no warning. He had a gag type cough for some time that everyone ignored, which probably weakened the muscles holding the stomach in place. He did not have the typical symptoms as described.