Dog died of pancreatitis.

My yorkie died at the vets.

She was 10 and a half. I fed her new dog food Saturday 2pm and she vomited it all up about 40 mins later and then started vomiting regularly through out the day and night.

On Sunday she was the same, I thought she might have an attack of pancreatis so with held food and water as well because when she drank she would vomit yellow bile, she was lethargic, no passing of bowels and just going away into corners or hiding to be alone or to vomit.
I gave her bath as she was sometimes not getting up from were she was being sick. She seemed to pick up after the bath for about a couple hours but then started to be sick again.
On Monday she was still sick through out the day and I new she needed a Vet but it was very late & I mistakenly hoped she might pick up. I stayed up with her till 3.30am and was woken 5.45am with an awful sound of her dry retching. I took her to Vets in the morning and after looking at her he said she was very ill, however no fever and not dehydrated even though she hadn’t drank in 2 days, he put her on an IV and said he would make sure she gets what she needs and to phone back in 3 and a half hours, I phoned and was told she passed away 10 mins ago, stopped breathing.

He said she might have had pancreatis or a tumor on the pancreas.

Blood work LaserCyte
RBC 5.5x10 – HCT 35.4 – HGB 14.2g/dl – MCV 64.9fL –MCH 26.1pg – MCHC(Out of Range) – RDW 15.4% - %RETIC 0.6% - RETIC 30.4K/uL – WBC 23.24x10 - %NEU 69.1% - %LYM 11.6% - %MONO 17.4% - %EOS 1.2% - %BASO 0.7% - NEU 16.05x10 – LYM 2.71x10 – MONO 4.04x10 – EOS 0.27x10 – BASO 0.17x10 – PLT 525 k/uL – MPV 10.0 fL – PDW 17.7 % - PCT 0.5%

Catalyst Dx
UREA >46.4 mmol/L – CREA (Off Scale) – PHOS >5.20 mmol/L - CA 2.33mmol/L – TP 85 g/L – ALB 38g/L –GLOB 47g/L – ALB/GLOB 0.8 – ALT 40U/L – ALKP 1806 U/L – GGT <0 U/L – TBIL 14umol/L – CHOL 11.81mmol/L – AMYL 1232 U/L – LIPA 5539 U/L – GLU >38.14 mmol/L

Inject DUPHACILLIN 100ML
Inject METOCLOPRAMIDE 10MG 10
Inject BUPRECARE 0.3MG/ML solution x5

Should they have used Buprecare, which contains Buprenorhine when she was in a weak state? And in your opinion what do you thing was possible wrong with her and is it normal to die when she was full of energy 3 days previous.

Thanks for your reply.

The makers of buprenorphine stated that the drug should be avoided in animals with kidney disease and as you said she had a serious problem with her kidneys, the vet would of known this as he did the blood work, so should an alternative pain killer not have been used in light of this?