YOu need to home cook and use LOW LOW LOW fat foods. Our girls too have pancreatis and we were advised to keep the fat % to 5 grams of fat per day. Before getting into home cooking we fed Wellness Weight mgt- it has 6-10 % fat. meaning no less than 6 and no more than 10. the key is to feed low fat and very bland diet. you cannot just feed home cooked w/o adding calcium and then further along you will need to add more supplements. it would be a great idea to home cook so you know every ingred your dog is eating.
You could find a yahoo support group to help you more or read the many links here on home cooking. Fish, white potatoes (canned will work) and green beans. You need to keep an eye on the poos if they are runny or soft. Also I highly recommend getting blood work done and pay close attn to amylase and lipase values. these are the pointers towards pancreatitis. You do not want your dog to go into full blown pancreatitis. That would involve hospitalizing for 2-3 days and they would remain on fluids.
Another SUPER website you need to check out is
B-Naturals
Here are some links for you to read up on...
Pancreatitis | B-Naturals.Com Newsletter B-Naturals
highly advise you getting some of the bnaturals digestive blend.
This will do wonders for digestion and the pancreas.
Oh my....Digestive blend is GREAT STUFF! It helped us immensely- very important if you get this. I do not know how much your dog weighs but start off small amount of this and sprinkle on the food. It must be given with food. my girls weigh 6.5 lbs and 13 lbs and i started them both with JUST a pinch of this. we are still at only 1/8 teas 2x's a day.
Definitely get a recent lab/blood work done. I don't want to alarm you but pancreatitis serious. It is treatable with diet. If you have to feed kibble go to wellnesspetfood.com and seach for the wellness weight mgt. they recently changed the name to healty management I believe. It is a light purple bag. My girls did great on that food. However we now have kidney issues so phos and calcuim need to be LOW. i had to stop feeding the wellness food. my girls loved it.
another important thing- no treats- if you have to you can trick them and feed kibble pieces as treats. also do a search for homemade treats. treats and greasy table food/scraps are very bad for a dog with pancreatitis.
read up on the bnaturals. it contains a wealth of info.
Hope this makes sense- unfortunately I am rushing to type this. Need to get at least 5 hrs sleep tonight :-)
Renee