Had to put the Big Guy down yesterday. Man it’s been awhile since I’ve had that happen with a pet. I’ll miss that monster. Tumors and cancer. He was over 7yrs. RIP Tank.
Damn Ash! Wish I could say something that made it better.. but ain't no words for losing our buddies that make it any better. Happy memories will come eventually and you will smile again when they do!
hey Ash, so sorry to hear and I am going through the same with my Giant and he's 8 and currently "at least Stage 3" although his blood and lung X-rays are clear. Did you try chemo or just let it run its course? Asking because we did chemo for about 3 months, then cycled him off b/c he got really sick (unrelated to chemo,) now the vet wants to start him on a different chemo treatment. The first type was really effective for about weeks 3-6, then the tumors rebounded and grew back and then as I said he got real sick unrelated to the chemo (no joke, I think he had C19 from me and my wife.) I was going to start him on chemo again, but this week he's been super energetic and playful, it's like he's 3 or 4 years old. And his groomer said her 7 yo GSD had lymphoma as well, said she was going on 6 months with no treatments and was dog was doing 'pretty good'. Groomer said in her experience there wasn't much rhyme or reason to dog chemo, some still died right away, some went into remission and lived 2-4 years and made it to old age. She said one standard poodle she groomed had lymphoma for 5 years, was untreated, and was still going strong minus large lymph nodes everywhere. The one thing I am definitely not doing is giving him goat dewormer. Yes, that's a thing. Internet swears by it, but there is a small number of postings that say it can actually grow the tumors. I tried it, and damned if that didn't coincide with the tumors starting to grow back. Not saying that's determined causative, but no sense in taking chances.
I still miss my best buddy ever, passed away 4-9-2021, I now know I am a lucky guy just to have had her in my life
I actually think he had the cancer longer than we thought. The vet gave him maybe 4 to 6 months to live but I just couldn’t watch him deteriorate. The chemo was an option but our family decision as much as we love our pets I can not justify spending thousands of dollars to keep him around a couple more month. I know that sounds ****ty but just a decision we made. It killed me to have to put him down. I can’t look back on it now because I’ll just be second guessing the vet and my decision. Here is one of the pics of his chest and more of these marks were starting to show up on other parts of his body and a bunch of small marble bumps under his skin and one inside his mouth. I was just hoping when we took him in it was going to be some kind of allergies but that wasn’t the case.
for sure, and I don't blame you. With our guy it's all lymph nodes, nothing presenting externally yet. We are leaning on at least holding off on further chemo to see how he does and for how long. When the odds are literally 50/50 he'll respond and then only for a couple-few months it's really hard to justify.
My wife is going to hate me with a dog that will never be dry, but I must my son wants to hunt. Going to be a dock dog that hunts.
my next dog is going to be a GWP. Want an all-around hunter that don't shed much. I can't deal with heavy shedding dogs anymore after this one goes.
Just want a big loopy block headed lab, I am going to need to have a very social dog with the grandkids and weekend guests he is going to be around a lot of people. I am headed to the bait shop shortly the guy that owns the bait shop has a chocolate/chessy cross just like the dog I had that I loved the most. Taunting me I will not bring a dog into the house until 2 are gone. Our youngest dog Gertie would be crushed if I was working with another dog paying all kinds of time training.
