my dexter who is a yorkie had severe pancreatitis and has ibd now and probably did before so you need to keep him on a low fat diet for the rest of his life or it will keep re-occuring. Dexter does well on purina ha and gets no treats at all only his kibble. I would suggest using this food for now and get some time under your belt before doing anything different. To keep getting pancreatitis is not good - did you get a cpli test done to determine it was pancreatitis? Do not feed hill's i/d as could make worse as it relapsed my dexter. Another food others have used is eukeneuba low residue but dex has done well on purina ha and it is a soy based diet and sounds like you have tried everything but that so that is what i recommend. Dex is not on any medications any more but he was on pepcid (famotidine) since this keeps re-curring and you live in colorado i would go to a specialist instead of a vet and see an internal medicine specialist as dex sees one as vet made him sicker
and he almost died - he had to have a plasma transfusion. Pancreatitis is nothing to mess with as they can die from this so no treats ever again. Yorkies are prone to this disease and some more prone that others - my boy yorkie got it and girl did not and they ate the same things. are you near the hospital on animal planet that is called emergency vets if so i would go there - alameda east.
Debbie W
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Originally Posted by lplord  
My 8 year old yorkie, Buster, has had 4 very mild pancreatic attacks since his first major one in July, thursday the 18th the doctor gave him some more amoxillin again, I do the usual things, backing off the food and give him boiled hamburger/rice twice a day and the antibiotic after the meal. The vet says that reoccurrence of gastric problems is normal(chronic pancreas) I am at my wits end, walking on eggshells. He suggested possibly going from the Canidae (all stages, Lamb and rice) to Science diet I/D. What makes that so special, it has all the wrong stuff in it, corn and corn meal etc, I would never feed him corn... I just don't know what to do anymore. I am so afraid that after I get him weaned off the hamburger/rice and back onto (soaked) canidae he will lapse again into another attack. I am just about to cry to think I am doing something to cause this. Help!!! Does anyone think I could also supplement with digestive enzymes? Sorry this is so long. I just don't know what to do anymore. Any advise would be apprecieated! |