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Good news...Cooper has been a happy healthy puppy ever since we switched his food over.  I am still not sure if it was the Potty Mouth pills or his prior food, or even both.  He has rapidly starting growing in size again, phew.  Thank you all for answering my questions and support!   

SO yesterday morning, Cooper ate this Brat diet (rice and chicken) for the second time and then got sick.  The vet was able to squeeze us in mid-morning.  Before we ended up going to the vet, we stopped by my parent's house and Cooper turned back into his usual normal self, playing non stop with my parent's dog, Adie.  At the vet, he again acted normal.  He had a slight temperature, but nothing to be worried about.  The vet checked him out and decided not to do blood work or Xrays on him, since he acted fine, his checked reflected a healthy puppy, and was still eating and pooping.  The only suggestion she had was to give him half a Pepcid AC tablet with his food twice a day.  Last night he was fine, just slept a little more than usual (typical after a vet visit...he gets a bit stressed there).

Then this morning we got up and fed him half of his normal kibble with a little rice and pepcid (recommend by the vet).  And yet again, he got sick this morning.  20 minutes later, we were outside on poop patrol and he was running around like a nut, playing with us and tossing around sticks.    The vet suggested bringing in a sample of his stool to double check for worms (even though he has already been dewormed and had his stool checked before).  They mentioned before that if things didn't clear up, then he should have blood work done and probably Xrays as well.   

I apologize for ranting on like this, but I feel like I am at a loss on what is wrong with him.  Has anyone else had anything similar like this happen to their dog?       

Thank you so much!  Once we finally find out why his tummy is so sick, I'll post it. 

Just got off the phone with the vet...they told me to switch him over immediately to a chicken and rice diet and if he is still vomiting tomorrow that he should come into the vet to be checked out.    I'm hoping this chicken/rice diet works, I feel so bad for my little guy right now.

So far, so good this morning, I left the happy little guy in his room (yes, no crate, we give him his own room...this might be part of the problem, but I just couldn't crate him).  He was sitting on his bed, playing with his toys watching animal planet...oh, the life! 

Seaherons: Yes (well technically Trenton now)  Cooper comes and plays with Adie in BH all the time (he is now bigger than her too!)  Hopefully Cooper can meet Cirra sometime soon.  

I noticed my bernese puppy's umbilical hernia pretty much exactly how you did.  The vet missed it the first time he went in, but checked everything out the next time.  He said that it can be corrected when he is neutered if it still exists.  Did you end up having this done? 

My very happy and energetic Bernese puppy has been throwing up once a day for the past 4 days.  He has been eating his feces and we started giving him pills (recommend by our Vet), called Potty Mouth.  It has been about 2 weeks now with the pills and he still eats his feces.  I am thinking that his vomiting has something to do with these pills (we are stopping with the pills today to see as well).  He is pretty mellow right after vomiting, but a short time later he is his regular old self.  Has anyone else had a puppy/dog with the same issue?  My puppy, Cooper, is going to the vet on the 24th, can he wait, or should I take him ASAP???  Any info would be appreciated!