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Hi Susan thanks for the information and the links, I don’t mind cooking for my dog, (by the way his name is Patch too! He is 1/2 cattle dog, 1/2 greyhound and 1/2 Saymoyed, his face looks quite similar to your Patch, face is 1/2 black 1/2 white and black eyebrow on the white side.) it is just hard as normally we travel 2300 miles in the summer each way to go across the U.S. to our summer place, if I can’t get him feeling better I won’t go, because vet care in that area is poor. What is really bothering me the most right now is that in just the bowled chicken and rice I know he isn’t getting enough nutrients. I am going to look into the links you sent and give something else a try. I’ve been to the regular vet, blood work is good, and he does keep down the boiled chicken and rice, his old dry was a 5 star chicken and rice food, so not sure what is in it that he can’t tolerate, he had eaten it for several years, I guess it’s not a grain allergy if he can eat the white rice? Perhaps one of the other ingredients is not tolerated. I guess my next step may be a gastro internist to make sure there are no other issues, however if this is a food intolerance only, then hate to put him through a bunch of unnecessary stuff. I am done with 14 days of Prilosec today, and Vet told me to keep in on it, but I am stopping it, it says only 14 days for people and there have been several commercials touting it to cause Kidney problems. He had a health problem several years ago and had to be on an acid reduction medication then for a short time and he kept throwing up on Pepcid, that’s why we switched to Prilosec, not sure what other anti-acid to try if I need it. I also found that some salt free soda crackers seem to keep his stomach settled for the night. Thanks again for the info!