Hi Sable,
I am glad you got your puppy into the vet and that she is doing better.
Your description of her symptoms made me wonder if she had eaten something fatty.
Our dog Annie, who lived a long and happy life, had the same symptoms one time. It happened after she had mooched some ham when I was not paying attention.
She got sick pretty fast after that ham and we took her to the vet. He diagnosed her with pancreatitis and said to be very aware of her diet. He suggested a food that we ordered by mail from Michigan. The first ingredient was chicken, as I recall, and the overall ingredients were supposed to be rather bland. This was before there were so many specialty dog foods available everywhere. This one was not overly expensive at the time.
She was fine after that but we had to be very careful that she did not talk anybody into sharing fatty food.
I just looked up canine pancreatitis and it said that it is more common in schnauzers and terriers. Annie was neither of those. She was a beautiful mixed breed who showed up at our door one day. (We named her Annie because she was an orphan.) There was no terrier or schnauzer in her DNA that I could see.
She got through her bout with pancreatitis. We became the food police. And she lived to be almost 17.
I am not a vet. But because those symptoms you described were so familiar to me, I thought I should tell you that it might be a good idea to make sure nobody is slipping delicious fatty food to your puppy. -- No matter how convincing she may be.
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