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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Read your update yesterday and just checking in on how Gizmo is getting along today. And saw Kristin's post and your agreement. How awful if stress can cause the pancreas to become inflamed and make a dog so ill!!!!! How in the world would an outside stressor create the whole inflammatory process, I wonder? Does the dog already have to have an inflamed pancreas or other similar condition for stress to bring on a spell with the pancreas like this or can it just occur out of the blue so to speak?
Scares me silly to think a grooming session or something else could stress a dog badly and cause all of this, Linda and Kristin! What does each of you think? I'm thinking of having Tibbe clipped back very, very short and now am worried about doing it. Tibbe's got enough trouble without adding pancreatitis. He's got MVD but has never been diagnosed for pancreatitis though he was given a CPL Snap test for it once before, which was negative. Now, I'm wondering if a grooming session could cause him to also develop pancreatitis . |
Not that I am any expert, I only know what I have read -- that pancreatitis is a bit of mystery and the exact causes cannot always be pinpointed.
While stress can be factor, I don't think you need to worry that a single grooming session will put Tibbe at risk. What I was thinking when I wrote that it worries me is that Teddy is my little oddball compared to my Tonka truck Max. Hard to explain, but I wouldn't be surprised if Teddy was diagnosed someday with pancreatitis.