Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
With splenic tumors it’s like this – they can be benign or malignant. Either can kill your dog if not treated. The benign ones, hemangioma, are curable by surgery if the spleen is removed. Sounds very drastic but it works and saves the dog’s life. With hemangiosarcoma, as of now, all you can do is buy time. Another big problem with…
Stormy was a friendly, happy Collie mix who lives with my friend in the old country. He was 18 years old, and with the exception of an old spinal injury that would give him a hard time now and then when he overdid things, he is still plenty eager to chase bitches. In my old country, dogs rarely get fixed,…
What the heck am I talking about? What does arthritis have to do with the abdomen? Just had another friend, whose dog’s arthritis started acting up, facing a diagnosis of a splenic tumor. Yes, arthritis can get more painful on some days, particularly if your dog overdoes it, or is a weekend warrior. For some dogs, weather can play a role…
Nobody likes to find new bumps on their dog, particularly since one was a mast cell tumor already. Since having his bumps aspirated and a mast cell tumor removed last October, JD decided to grow a couple of new ones. Again, they were quite small and there was the possibility that he might have run into a branch and that’s…
You can’t see splenic tumors coming–or can you? Too often, splenic tumors pass under the radar until the dog collapses as a result of severe internal bleeding. My brother-in-law had a dog die to hemangiosarcoma a couple of years ago. The prognosis with this cancer is generally poor but on top of that, their vet insisted it was a urinary…