my friends had a near miss today when their houds bowel strangled the stomach,,,,it sounds a bit like colic in a horse....it wasnt a torsion. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Unfortunately they are not medically minded so this is how they described it to me!

I'm no expert either Sam but it sounds like it may be some form of hernia, ie a loop of bowel managed to hook round a bit of stomach and caused a heria type thing. Is the hound OK? was a GA needed and an op or some other form of treatment? Hope alls OK now.
Aileen.

Could it have been Intussusception http://www.acvs.org/AnimalOwners/HealthConditions/SmallAnimalTopics/Intussusception/index.cfm?dspPrintReady=Y

Overview
The term intussusception (pronounced in-tuh-sus-sep-shun) is used to describe a condition in which one segment of the intestine (the intussusceptum) telescopes or invaginates into the lumen of and adjacent segment of intestine (the intussuscipiens). Intussusceptions may occur at any location in the gastrointestinal tract from the stomach to the large intestine, however, most commonly the bowel segments involved are the jejunum (in the middle of the small intestine) or the ileocecocolic junction (where the small intestine joins the large intestine or colon.  Generally the intussusceptum is a more proximal portion of bowel (i.e. closer to the mouth) which telescopes into a more distal (closer to the anus) segment. This pattern follows the normal direction of peristalsis. The reverse, however, is occasionally found.