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4 hours ago, BillsEnthusiast said:

Just got back home. 

 

Ultrasound revealed a sizable tumor in his abdomen - stomach cancer. Untreatable even if I had the cash for chemo and surgery. Bear's been given 3 weeks, enough for Christmas. 

 

Holy living ****. I'm a little in shock. 

 

Sweats, I'm going to keep that in mind when the inevitable comes. Thanks. 

 

I’m so very sorry to hear this news.  My Golden #5 was the first time I was with one when she went down. It was one of the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I’m glad I was there. Sweats is right, just remember the good times. I still smile when I remember the good times with Cassie. She was a hoot, semi-afraid of the “giant” deer on our lot who wanted to play with her (they were a lot more than her 60 #).  They would taunt her - come and get me with hoof stomps. (The deer were not affected by the invisible fence!)  

 

You’ll have all that good stuff that ever happened with you forever. 

 

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So sorry to hear of your pup. My wife an I just went through he worst nitemare  our lives just about a month ago. One minute my pup of 16 years was happy, playing, and running in the grass outside. And I picked her up to sit on my lap and watch some TV and out of nowhere she started spazzing out really hard. I had to rush her to the hospital. Once there they told me she was seizing (had been for the last 30 minutes or so in my arms as I sped to the emergency vet) She was seizing right through their injections. Bought just enough time for my wife to get there from work and her family so that we could all say goodbye. They believed that she had a brain tumor that just all the sudden hit in such a way to bring everything on. Would have costed thousands just to be sure. But she was too old for surgery and even if they could fix the problem they believed she would possibly continue to have seizures. 

 

We all said goodbye as they gave her some relaxers. Enough to calm her down for the end. I didn’t want to let her go in any distress so I took it upon myself to hold her as they administered the shot. I’ll never forget holding her in my arms one last time. It felt good believing that she knew We were there for her. I’m sure she was terrified. 

 

I say say this to you now to help or that you do the same for Bear. Be with him at ththe end. Let him know you are there and keeping him safe. It will be the hardest thing for you to do but for him it will mean everything. 

 

I wish you the best in your final weeks with Bear. 

 

 

 

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8 hours ago, BillsEnthusiast said:

Really appreciate it guys. He's not in any pain, and it hasn't spread. We will make this the best Christmas yet. ^_^

 

Aw man I’m sure he will appreciate it whatever you do for him. Dogs are so much like that. I’m sorry for the news buddy. ?

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The big guy passed away at 7 this morning. He'd lost about 50 pounds by this point, and I had already made an appointment to have him put to sleep. Won't need it now. 

 

Thanks for all your support and kind words. It was a good Christmas, and I'll miss him very much. 

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The big guy passed away at 7 this morning. He'd lost about 50 pounds by this point, and I had already made an appointment to have him put to sleep. Won't need it now. 

 

Thanks for all your support and kind words. It was a good Christmas, and I'll miss him very much. 

 

 

Sorry to hear this but good that you could enjoy Christmas.  

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So sorry to hear this. Just saw the thread this morning. Wife and I have 2 dogs and no kids... which is to say we have 2 kids.

 

To your earlier comment about greyhounds, one of my two is a greyhound rescue. He’s funny as hell, and sweet, but if you have little kids he’s not a good fit; track manners, insofar as he jumps one everyone and he’s territorial at times. We have a pit mix that is the sweetest dog in the world to everyone but the vacuum cleaner. 

 

I’m glad you made it through Christmas with your Bear, and I’m truly sorry for your loss. I hope the healing doesn’t take too long. Hang in there. 

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3 hours ago, BillsEnthusiast said:

The big guy passed away at 7 this morning. He'd lost about 50 pounds by this point, and I had already made an appointment to have him put to sleep. Won't need it now. 

 

Thanks for all your support and kind words. It was a good Christmas, and I'll miss him very much. 

Hang tough, he will be with you forever in your heart. RIP 

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On 12/14/2017 at 6:43 PM, BillsEnthusiast said:

Just got back home. 

 

Ultrasound revealed a sizable tumor in his abdomen - stomach cancer. Untreatable even if I had the cash for chemo and surgery. Bear's been given 3 weeks, enough for Christmas. 

 

Holy living ****. I'm a little in shock. 

 

Sweats, I'm going to keep that in mind when the inevitable comes. Thanks. 

 

So sorry to hear this. 

 

I just recently went through something similar similar with my dog. They prescribed a steroid pill for him that actually bought him some extra time and got him eating + drinking again.

 

He was a pure bred Alaskan Malamute. I found a lump growing on his leg and it ended up being cancer. We had it removed and it came back. So they gave us the choice of letting it go, chemo or amputation of the leg+ shoulder. They said amputation was the best bet. So we had it done. The doctor checked him for cancer elsewhere in his body before the surgery and during the operation itself. He said if it had spread there'd be no point in the surgery. 

 

Well, he said he didn't find any cancer so he removed the front leg/shoulder. The recovery was terrible. It was a massive surgery and the wound was big. As I'm sure you know, keeping a dog clean isn't an easy task. Let along a very big dog who was just trying to learn to walk without his front leg... Well, despite my absolute best efforts it ended up infected (which the vet said was a highly likely possibility). The after care was crazy expensive. We had to take him to have this wound cleaned every day for weeks. It was horrible but he got better. 

 

So finally he's all healed and is starting to learn to walk well again. It's a lot harder for a dog to lose a front leg than a rear leg I guess, and even harder for big dogs. I had to buy a special harness for him and help him up and down the stairs and stuff like that. Even had to help him go to the bathroom for a while. 

 

He was a relatively quick learner though, and was able to overcome it after a few months. He was able to use the stairs on his own again and all that stuff. Was even able to run again. Honestly, it was inspiring to see how this dog overcame losing his leg, and how it never changed his happy go lucky, easy going personality one bit. 

 

Got his 1 year check up and all was good. He still looked cancer free. 

 

Well, shortly after that, out of nowhere, he stopped eating and was acting lethargic. We took him to the vet and they had to do all sorts of scans on him. We had to leave him because he had to be sedated. So we had to wait a while for the results. It was torture. 

The news wasn't good. They said his whole chest and stomach area was filled with tumors. Nothing they could do.

 

They gave him Prednisone pills (it's a steroid). I guess it helped the swelling and pressure from the tumors of something like that. It actually really helped initially. He began eating again and had a little more energy. I think it at least made him a bit more comfortable. 

 

We had had him put down a few months after finding out. It was really tough. Thrn had to have my other dog put down maybe 6-8 months later. She at least went from old age though. My Malamute was still young. 

 

Just figured id share my story with you. Sorry again about your dog. They really do become like family. 

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