Thread: Show us your ...........DOG

Sorry to hear that. Looks like he(?) was a happy chap!

Bugger, sorry to hear. 🙁

Originally Posted by BradC

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RIP Lucky.
You came to us as a rescue and we had 9 great years. **** Cancer!

Bugga bloody cancer.

Just have to think of the good times.

I know what place you are in its bloody hard when this happens.

Ours had mammary gland cancer three yrs back,after a couple of huge operations to remove them all she is still with us,just lucky.

Skin cancer got our last dog

Originally Posted by scarry

Bugga bloody cancer.

Just have to think of the good times.

I was pretty angry at first, but drank a lot of scotch while watching episodes of "Kingswood Country" and "Father Ted" last night. I'm a lot more philosophical now.

We took him to the vet probably 5 years ago for a "could you check this lump for us" and he assured us it was a fatty lump (referred to it as a "big boy lump"). My friend who's a vet said "Oh they are really common in big labs" referring to "big boy lumps". She didn't ask me if he'd biopsied it. Over a year later (and a new vet) we got a biopsy which led to an X-ray which led to a huge surgery to remove a grapefruit sized tumour from around his urethra. Vet said "I got ~95% of it, but it'll be back and when it is then it'll be time". It was mid-year(ish) and he said he'd probably be done by Christmas. We got another 3 Christmases out of him and despite the fact he had lumps "everywhere" he was happy, active and having a ball. That changed just over a week ago and after enough diagnostics to prove it wasn't something we could resolve (like joint or arachnid bite) we made the call.

So yeah, plenty of good times. The vet always said "when it's time, you'll know" and it was literally like a switch being flipped. He went to bed at 9 perfectly happy, and at 11 he woke up limping and whimpering. Watching the CCTV back it looked like he'd been bitten by something. The recoil was immense and rapid, so we had him treated for a spider bite, but it turns out the cancer had spread to his bones.

Talking it through with my friend, she said if the owners could afford it and were willing, she biopsied almost every lump for just this reason. If I could meet the vet who mis-diagnosed him I'd probably have some serious words as he was quite dismissive and lax. Theres a whole lot of other diagnostic issues and symptoms in there that all pointed towards MAST cell tumours, but he never picked it up.

He's at peace now, and thankfully was really only uncomfortable for the week. The meds took the edge off, but there was no way back from this one. At least we have a peaceful and humane way of ending their suffering.

Our last guy had a few sort of lumps and they came back as skin cancer.

They operated,but the vet said it was everywhere,he has six months at most.

Twelve months later he wouldn’t eat,lithargic,we knew it was time.

The Springer we have now we got as a pup when it first happened,and I recon she gave him a good few more months,played with him for hours every day,and took his mind off his issue,which was great.He seemed to perk up when she arrived.

Here is our girl doing her bit for Covid



Actually,after eating a piece of bait on a fishhook,and then surgery, which she was lucky to get through, we tried this on her.
The fishhook didnt do any damage, it was the 12 inches of line on the end of it that got tangled in her gut, that did the damage.
She doesnt like it, but has got used to it.It goes on every time she goes anywhere out of our yard.Off as soon as back in the car or at home.
When out she is distracted by smells, etc,so sort of takes her mind off it, if left on at home i recon she would eventually get it off.
She has got used to the system pretty quickly, and can still pant and drink through it which is important.
Can also still smell well through it.
Still no good for baits,such as 1080,but will stop her eating most things.
Springers are similar to Labs,food driven,will have a go at eating anything that they find.
We have also been training her not to eat anything once out of our yard.Difficult to do,but she is getting the idea.

We had a pup one time who swallowed a pin , too her to vet & don't think the vet believed us until she took the X-ray & came out & said your dog has swallowed a pin. Quite a few dollars latter for OP to remove the pin & she was all good. Didn't want to risk the pin getting stuck some were. Wife made sure she picked up any pins she dropped when doing her quilting after that.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

We had a pup one time who swallowed a pin , too her to vet & don't think the vet believed us until she took the X-ray & came out & said your dog has swallowed a pin. Quite a few dollars latter for OP to remove the pin & she was all good. Didn't want to risk the pin getting stuck some were. Wife made sure she picked up any pins she dropped when doing her quilting after that.

Lucky you knew the dog had swallowed it.

The vet that did the op, said he once X-Rayed a lab,for an unrelated reason, and it had 5 golf balls in its stomach.Looking at some of them, after they were removed, they had been in there for ages.

Ours will eat anything food like,the more rotted the better, but never objects, which is good.

Yer,thats the second lot of bills we have had over the last 5 yrs or so, she is now 11,that have cost arms, legs and kidneys.