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So Ace has been lame for 3 weeks now and it has been getting steadily worse despite rest and anti inflammatories - the vet has seen him a couple of times but could find no heat, no swelling, no injury and no reason for the lameness.
He went into the vets today for X-rays and I honestly didn’t expect him to come home - greyhounds are horribly prone to bone cancer, and whilst he is still a youngish dog at 6 years old it does occur sometimes.
I had talked it over with greyhound owning friends and we were all prepared that this might well be the findings from the X-ray, in which case I would have had him PTS immediately. Bone cancer is one of the most excruciatingly painful diseases a dog can have, and I’d never want to prolong any suffering. I even left him at the vets with a horrible old slip lead and I took his house collar off so I’d have nothing that I had to collect from them!
BUT such fantastic news, the X-rays showed no signs of bone cancer ??? He has arthritic changes in one ‘wrist’ on his front right leg, so he has begun a series of laser treatments on that today - but he is home against all the odds, I am so happy ??????
Still recovering from the sedation....
He went into the vets today for X-rays and I honestly didn’t expect him to come home - greyhounds are horribly prone to bone cancer, and whilst he is still a youngish dog at 6 years old it does occur sometimes.
I had talked it over with greyhound owning friends and we were all prepared that this might well be the findings from the X-ray, in which case I would have had him PTS immediately. Bone cancer is one of the most excruciatingly painful diseases a dog can have, and I’d never want to prolong any suffering. I even left him at the vets with a horrible old slip lead and I took his house collar off so I’d have nothing that I had to collect from them!
BUT such fantastic news, the X-rays showed no signs of bone cancer ??? He has arthritic changes in one ‘wrist’ on his front right leg, so he has begun a series of laser treatments on that today - but he is home against all the odds, I am so happy ??????
Still recovering from the sedation....