Is he a house cat?

Do you have deer in your yard?

Might be a bot fly.

Or pancreatitis.

My dog vomited on Friday morning several times before finally ending the show with a prodigious amount of bloody vomit. It was scary but I remembered when my son had a stomach flu he did the same thing. Doc said it was just due to his excessive vomiting. I took her to the vet. Her temperature was normal and they did take some blood tests. I went for the $71 dollar package before I committed to the $300 package. Her numbers were normal except for the kidneys which the vet said was caused by dehydration.

They wanted to keep her there for 2-4 days at $300 a day giving her IV hydration. So I said okay.

Then I got a phone call saying they cannot get the IV to work because she was dehydrated. So I went back to the vets office and gave her 7ml doses of water orally. She improved, I took her home, they were upset but I know my dog better than they do — she is a nervous little thing and might have perished at the vets office after a day or two so I took a Chance. I trusted my intuition.

She recovered in a few hours — but they did hydrate her under the skin which may have been helpful. I dunno.

Final diagnosis from the vet— pancreatitis. Now she’s eating low fat food.

and I saved $600 - $ 1,200.

Vets are greedy too.

Funny, they said something to the effect of “we are not going to release her”. I just grabbed her and took her home.

Another Lesson.