wench
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has anyone had a dog with this?
bone tumours
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JAK
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One of my old bitches had a tumour on her skull, which ended up the size of a golf ball but didn't seem to bother her at all!
Flat bone tumours are normally low-grade tumours, that don't usually spread & just stay as a localised lump!
Long bone tumours however, are almost invariably aggressively malignant & spread rapidly to other parts of the body!
They are often very painful for the dog - we had a dog come through breed rescue that had bone tumours in a front leg, that was noticed when he banged his leg on a coffee table & suspiciously, never got better, just got lamer & lamer, poor lad!
Having said that, my bitch did develop secondary tumours & was put down just a few months after the initial lump appeared! I always seem to have animals that break the rules though & they seldom conform to the accepted norm!
Flat bone tumours are normally low-grade tumours, that don't usually spread & just stay as a localised lump!
Long bone tumours however, are almost invariably aggressively malignant & spread rapidly to other parts of the body!
They are often very painful for the dog - we had a dog come through breed rescue that had bone tumours in a front leg, that was noticed when he banged his leg on a coffee table & suspiciously, never got better, just got lamer & lamer, poor lad!
Having said that, my bitch did develop secondary tumours & was put down just a few months after the initial lump appeared! I always seem to have animals that break the rules though & they seldom conform to the accepted norm!
Oneofthepack
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My beautiful lurcher, Charlie, had a bone tumour on a back leg last year and had to be put to sleep within 3 weeks of me noticing the lump as an xray showed the malignancy had tracked up the bone and we couldn't keep him out of pain.