“We’ve cut her steroid back to a quarter of a pill per day”
I haven’t been in the loop re your dog, but “steroid” caught my eye in this post. Why is she on steroids, and for how long?
One of our cats has been on Prednisolone for several years, and will be “life long”. It’s the only thing that controls daily vomiting and resultant weight loss. (She was so pitifully skinny that we named her “Maris Crane” after the character in Frasier.)
Vets think it’s an auto-immune issue, most likely. They don’t know why/how steroid works, but it just does.
Will your puppy be on it forever, or temporarily?
That’s the one. She’s on penicillimine until they’re sure her liver is functioning normally again. It’s supposed to chelate the excess copper out of her liver. It seems to have been doing its job.
However, many dogs have problems tolerating the penicillimine so she’s on predisolone to help her keep everything down. We had her on 1/2 pill, but she was doing well so we cut it to 1/4.