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My Rottie has been lame now for 4 weeks. It came on quite suddenly so we tried rymadil first as the vet thought it was possibly old age creeping up.Then we had a week of metacam. Resulting in a much brighter and happier,bouncing around the room but still very lame Rottie.I should say the problem is in her shoulder. When I took her in for an x-ray they found a lump and decided to do a biopsy on it.
Bad times the diagnosis is cancer. It is inoperable and all we can do is keep her comfortable.
Anyone with any experience of this bone cancer ? I do know that by the time you find it it is probably already spreading .
I am not seeing my vet again till next week when she has her stitches out. I can't see the point in going in today nothing much is going to change ....
As I said I am gutted. We always knew she wouldn't live for ever but I wasn't expecting her to go like this.:(
 
I've no experience with cancer in dogs sorry, just wanted to express my sympathies. You must be devastated :(
 
So sorry to hear this, it's always sad.

I had a lurcher who had this later in his life. They could of removed his leg as it was in a back hock joint, but he had been a coursing dog on a farm all of his life and how would he feel about at his age waking up with a leg missing?

So, we made sure that he had his glorious last summer, out with the family and warm sunny days laying under the budlia bush.

We had him PTS before the bone had become to thin and weak, to take his weight any longer.

The vet said I had timed it perfectly, as sadly one day, he would get up to go to his feed bowl and the leg would horrifically, just snap!

God I loved that dog! It still brings tears to my eyes to think of him. This all happened 20 years ago, he was the best and we had had so much fun with him that he deserved all our love and respect.

RIP Digger, I'll see you at the bridge.
 
No direct experience of it but looked into it when my rottie had ongoing lameness and it was feared that it was bone cancer.

The information I was given that by the time the cancer is showing in the bone marrow is that the lungs are usually full of a mulitude of tiny tumours. There are reports of a year of extra life after amputation and chemo to control the lung tumours but very few reports of longer life. I was also told by my vets that by the time the cancer is showing that it will spread rapidly.
I made the decision that if the biopsy showed bone cancer that my dog wasn't to be brought round from the GA but that was a very personal decision.

Is there any way you could call and talk to your vet before next week,at least to get up to date info.

I'm so,so sorry for your girl and you.
 
Thank you for all your kind thoughts. We had already discussed the what if's before she went in for her x-rays. As we thought, originally, it could possibly something to do with her spine as her back legs are a bit wobbly too.
Ho hum, into the vets on Wednesday for a proper chat now we have a proper diagnosis and then decide the best way for her.She is already getting pain relief but as to whether it will be enough in the coming weeks only time will tell.
Unfortunately amputation is not an option and I will not put her through chemo to prolong her life awful as that sounds. She has had a good life and I will not put her through that just so I can keep her a bit longer.
Life's cr#p sometimes....
 
I am so sorry to hear this, I went through the same thing in April this year with my rottie. Just like your dog she became lame in her hind leg, at first I didn,t worry and thought she had just pulled something, I remembered that a couple of years ago we had heard her mother had been PTS due to bone cancer and wondered if it could be hereditory, unfortunately a visit to the vets confirmed this. Molly,s leg was amputated the next day and she made a speedy recovery and was able to do everything she could do with four legs including jumping the fence into my neighbours garden. She had a wonderful happy six months but then it spread to her lungs and she went downhill very quickly, she was only eight years old when I lost her. Cherish every moment you have with your rottie, my thoughts are with you x x x
 
God, desperately sorry to hear this. Your vet may offer steroids in order to try to shrink the tumour but unless you know there's only the one, then you are right to be wondering if there are more and if it's fair to keep her going. The most obvious ones were in Jake's spine (hence the sudden severe lameness) but there were others elsewhere. We didn't even try the steroids.

Whatever decision you make will be the right one: you know what's best for your girl.
 
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