Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
Hi Peggy,
Some good ideas here, but this is the main point: you've got chronic disease at work in your Springer. Anyone losing red blood cells has a serious problem. Conventional medicine doesn't cure chronic disease. It makes symptoms go into hiding for a time, usually as long as the drugs are given. And it creates a host of side effects.
You need to get with a veterinary homeopath, whether or not you get a firm diagnosis. There should be plenty to work with coming from how this guy shows his illness. That should get a professional to a remedy to start the ball rolling, but it'll take more than one remedy, carefully dosed, to get him back to well. See my Resources page to find AVH listed homeopathic vets and ask some hard question when you interview: 1. how much of your practice is homeopathy? 2. How long practicing it? 3. Would you recommend my dog be vaccinated at some point? Etc.
Chronic disease is never DIY. Get some help ASAP.