Bone Cancer In Dogs

Hi. I have a 9 year old golden retriever, who is just the best dog ever. For the past few days she is limping on her right front foot. My parents took her to the vet on Friday. The vet said that her thought it was bone cancer. In the x-rays though he couldn’t see anything. He gave my dog some medications to see if she could then walk. Its sunday and she’s still limping. She seems fine but i’m worried. They took her to the vet again yesterday, and now he’s thinking it might be bone cancer. I’ll know more tomorrow, but what do you think?

She also has a fever. She seems fine though. She’s just having a hard time walking.

So thanks for answering. I really hope she’ll be fine.

If she has bone cancer, will she live?

Hi. I have a 9 year old golden retriever, who is just the best dog ever. For the past few days she is limping on her right front foot. My parents took her to the vet on Friday. The vet said that her thought it was bone cancer. In the x-rays though he couldn’t see anything. He gave my dog some medications to see if she could then walk. Its sunday and she’s still limping. She seems fine but i’m worried. They took her to the vet again yesterday, and now he’s thinking it might be bone cancer. I’ll know more tomorrow, but what do you think?

She also has a fever. She seems fine though. She’s just having a hard time walking.

So thanks for answering. I really hope she’ll be fine.

If she has bone cancer, will she live?

We were just told that my daughters dog, a rottie 8 yrs old named Keiko (key-ko) has bone cancer in her right shoulder. Due to her bad rear left leg, we really don’t want to amputate or have chemo treatments. The quality of life isn’t there for her. Here’s my concern….My daughter has been serving for 18 mos and is due back in the states hopefully by the 2nd wk in October. Should we tell her? Of course no one knows how long this honey bear will hang in there.

14 years ago a few months after I had my first baby, I was diagnosed with advanced acute leukemia. One year survival rates were less than 5%. I had three years of high dose chemo, a relapse, an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant, and experimental treatment.

I thought I would either die or come back home and get well. Instead I am disabled, in and out of the hospital. l have lung damage, brain damage, have gained weight from medication given by different doctors, wake up in pain at night.

I have had nightmarish experiences from misdiagnosis.

I take care of my normal rebellious teen now. I gave up volunteer work because of the stress and now stay in the house, except to walk the dog. My husband is gone most of the time and is stressed out from work.

I have a few friends, go to cancer suport groups, therapy. I don’t fit in.

If I had known what would happen, I wouldn’t have fought so hard to survive. I look at my bald, scarred image in the mirror and think – who is that?

My dog had surgery about 4 and a half months ago for bone cancer and had to get a leg amputated, so she’s three legged. After a little while she became her old self again and was wagging her tail, running, going up and down stairs, etc. But recently she just fell down a couple steps of stairs when coming downstairs a little too fast, and ever since she’s been really quiet, and almost seems depressed. She still goes up and down the stairs anyways, because she likes to sleep in my parent’s room. I’m worried that she might have hurt herself falling down the stairs, but she doesn’t seem to be in pain at all.
( she fell down the stairs about 5 days ago )

Our dog (lab/shepard mix) is 10 years old and has bone cancer. The poor guy doesn’t have much time left, so we are starting to prepare ourselves for putting him down. We are both seriously torn as whether or not to be in the room with him. My gut is telling me to be there with him, that I wouldn’t want to die alone, but I don’t know if I can handle it.

This is the first time I have ever had to put a dog down, and it is breaking my heart : (

Were you in the room when you had to put a pet down? How did it go? Just looking for some insight I guess…
Thanks all. I appreciate you sharing your stories and tears with me.

You are right, I need to be there for him, and I will when the time comes.

Thanks again for your kind words

Before anyone says it – yes I have an apt with the vet tomorrow. Hopefully the vet will be able to help.

She had a mast cell tumor removed in October, biopsied as Stage 2, very clean edges so they believe they got the whole tumor. The vet said that treatment options included steroids, chemo & radiation… I asked about side effects and when he started listing them off I said NO. I have no desire to make my sweetheart of a dog suffer, just so I can selfishly keep her in my life for a few more months. What would her quality of life be? What would she want me to do?

Moving along… the incision heeled, I changed her diet to a homemade anti-cancer diet. My thought was if the cancer hasn’t spread then the diet should help keep it from spreading and if the cancer has spread the diet will slow or stop the cancer from growing (these are scientifically proven facts here… which I have extensively researched and read about, so don’t bother if your going to criticize me).

She has been doing just fine… still plays ball as well as ever, gets into the same trouble, chews the same bones and so on. Today I thought… something just doesn’t look right so I investigated further. The pads on her paws that are normally pink look white. Her gums look whiter than usual, same goes for the inside of her eyelids. So my best guess, semi educated… she is anemic. Mast cells can morph and cause bone cancer which would explain the anemia.

I don’t want my dog to suffer, and I am going to go to the vet and see what he says… and what I can do for her. She still isn’t showing any signs of being sick. What should I watch for that would mean she is getting sick or sicker. She’s still eating & drinking, runs around etc. What are the signs that she is suffering? How do I tell when it is time to let her go in peace?

This is a serious topic and I am very emotionally fragile right now so I AM BEGGING YOU… ONLY HELPFUL, KIND AND USEFUL INFORMATION PLEASE!

y drunk and now he is a mean drunk. it is now my fault that we can’t get along and i am wondering if he can throw me out of our home since we are not married and the house is in his mothers name…our home is in major construction and is an investment actually between his mother and himself. she has her own home on the other side of the heights where we live. yes, i know shacking up for all these years was beyond ignorant on my part as i look back now, i am living this dream…while many incl. family and friends know and think of us a together forever and etc…i was just wondering what my posistion might be if he and his mother decided to tell me to get out after this evenings heated discussion afterwhich he took my dogs and left for the evening to his mothers house. nevermind he was at a bar 6 hours today while i have been nursing my poor 10 year old dying great dane who has bone cancer at home. nebulous details aside, i wonder if they could throw me out when today he returns..?

Im really scared that my dog is going to die tonight. He has bone cancer(osteosarcoma) and we were told he was going to die. its been around 3 months and tonight he looks really bad. Its 2:37 am here and i dont want to go to bed. would if he isnt there in the morning? he turned 4 in april..hes so young. im not trying to guilt anyone or anything i just need to get this off my chest. I feel terrible, and on top of that i have OCD so this whole dying thing is even worse. I feel like everything i do will make him die. im scared to death. i need help.
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The past few months have been very hellish for me and my family. From November 09 – now, I’ve been through: the death of my closest uncle, the death of one of my dogs (dog in my pic, RIP Chester) whom I never even got to say my final goodbyes to, another uncle of mine might possibly have MS, my dad being sick a lot, and I just recently found out my dad is having problems with his liver and he needs to get screened for bone cancer soon. I’ve been VERY depressed lately, to the point where I just don’t want to do ANYTHING except sit on the computer all day because it’s the only thing that keeps me sane. I haven’t been in the mood to talk to many people at all and when I think of other traumatic events (my mom and dad used to fight a lot, sometimes physically), my depression gets worse. I found out the bad news about my dad yesterday and I even went to bed pretty early, which is rare on days where I don’t have school the next day. I’m even gonna be going to bed after this. I need help but I don’t know…..what would a psychiatrist be able to do? I am NOT suicidal by the way.