Follow Veterinarian Precriptions

• Follow the prescription diet your veterinarian gives you when you first get your dog home after prognosis. Use the diet for the recommended time period to help your dog regain as close to a normal life as he can. Some of the brand names recommended are Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Canine Digestive Low Fat LF 20 or Hills Prescription Diet Canine i/d or w/d. Eukanuba Reduced Fat is another brand often recommended. Royal Canin comes in dry or canned. Hill's foods are both highly digestible and low in fat.
  
  

Commercial Food

• Once you are allowed to give your dog commercial food again, you will want to go with reduced-fat foods for the remainder of your dog's life. Look for foods with a fat content of under 9 percent (dry), 7 percent (moist) or 4 percent (canned) in the food. Read every label from now on. You can use brands such as Avoderm Chicken and Rice, Eagle Pack Holistic Fish Formula, Canidae Platinum or Natural Balance Sweet Potato and Fish. If you want a dog food without grains, there is Wellness Core Reduced-Fat brand. Remember to soak the kibble in warm water or a low-salt, nonfat broth. Always serve the meal at room temperature.
  
  

Home-cooked Food

• An option to feeding dry kibble or commercial brands is a simple home-cooked diet. If you go this route, use a simple and bland diet to start with. Boiled chicken with boiled rice or potato is good as is nonfat cottage cheese or nonfat plain yogurt. Mix up the diet by including plain oatmeal, barley or egg whites. Use a variety of skinless meat along with the chicken, such as lean and no-fat boiled ground beef or beef hearts, kidneys and liver. Use vegetables such as cooked broccoli, cabbage, winter squash or sweet potato. Overcook the starchy foods to make them more digestible.
  
  

Considerations

• Remember, when you feed your dog a low-fat diet such as this, she may loose vitamins such as A and E. Counter this by adding salmon or coconut oil to the diet. Remember to split the meals into double the frequency at half the amounts. This means feeding up to six or eight times per day, but it will keep the vomiting down.