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[quote=Anonymous]Our dog, a poodle, started the same pattern you are dealing with starting at abut 6 months old.  Our initial vet tried many things, trying special foods, medications, and there would always be improvement, but then break throughs of symptoms again.  Then in a particularly bad episode I had to take her to Friendship, not our regular vet, late one evening. They gave her fluids but also ran a series of expensive blood tests.  It turned out she had pancreatitis, which they suspected was a low-grade, chronic form, probably congenital.  Initially treated with Carafate and a probiotic paste, but the long term treatment is a low fat diet.  She has been on Honest Kitchen Preference that we mix with ground turkey breast -- the lowest fat protein she can tolerate.  She has been completely symptom free for 18 months and really thriving.  We make the turkey, then freeze it in packets that are the right portion size to be mixed with the Honest Kitchen each day.  It is pretty easy and has been a lifesaver for our dog.   Strongly recommend a second opinion, not necessarily Friendship though as our dog was traumatized by her emergency experience there.  Am sure other dogs react might react differently, but it took a lot of desensitizing with a home vet and home groomer before she was OK with being handled by anyone but us.  Before that night, she had loved her vet and groomer and neither could believe the change that had occurred after that visit.   [/quote]

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