Sorry to hear about your pup. Praying and hoping for the best.

I'll surely say a prayer and hope for the best.

Prayers for you and your buddy.

Prayers for you and your pup. Please keep us informed about his condition.

flashguy

I'm so sorry. Hoping that you get some better news tomorrow.

Blessings for your pup and you.

SPSHOOTER

You and your baby boy will be in my thoughts and prayers for good fortune.

Thank you for the prayers, kind words and well wishes for my pup. I really appreciate them all.

This has been a tough week. Spent a couple of very long days at the emergency vet clinic with him. Had evaluations, ulta sounds and a CT scan. Ultimately it was determined he needed a exploratory surgery to determine exactly what was causing a fluid build up in his abdominal cavity.

That was something that we really did not want to do to him. But there was something going on that could not be determined with out it. So we went ahead.
Surgeon called a bit ago and he had a mass in his intestine. Which he removed. His fear is an intestinal cancer which is very bad and generally is not treated well in dogs. We have to wait for pathology to determine if it is or something else.
Hopefully we good some good news when the report comes back.

We want to give my buddy every chance. I would sell my personal belonging to pay the vet bill if it would extend his life and provide a good quality of life for him going forward. But have to be prepared if it is not to be.
Will get him home in the next day or two and get him back on his feet and see how things go.

Again, I appreciate all of you and your prayers and well wishes. They mean and awful lot.

Thanks guys.

Please accept our continued prayers and support for both you and your pup. We sincerely hope it is not intestinal cancer and hopefully something more benign.

Best of luck!

Hoping for the best for your pup.

ORC, I'm so sorry to hear you're going through this. Did the specialist do an excisional biopsy or did he/she just take some and send off? If offered the option, I always opt to go ahead and "ground check" it (using hunter's language), meaning that I take it all out and send all of what I removed, so I can find out what it is, and if I got clean margins on it.

I still hope for the best for you, so many times it isn't what it appears to be. Keep us in the loop!

Thanks Slabsides,Greatly appreciate you chiming in. Yes I think that is what he did. removed the mass and that part of his intestine that was affected and sent it in for biopsy including a biopsy of his lymphnodes as well.

Picking him up today.

Thanks again guys.

I did the exploratory surgery thing once when my dog had fluid in his abdomen. He had tumors on his spleen that turned out to be benign and they removed his spleen right away. He was 13 a year later when it happened again and the vet said they’d have to bring Great Danes in to do a blood transfusion before they could open him up again to see what was going on. I couldn’t put him through that again. My first son was only a year old. It took my wife and three kids years to get me to get another dog. I don’t ever want to have to make that decision again, but it was selfish of me to deny my kids the joy of having a dog.

I’m sorry you are going through this, sincerely hope and pray he’s OK, so the two of you have many more years together.

Sadly we had to send my boy home. It was a real heartbreak. Cried like a little girl. The hurt was real. I know many here experience it and it is so good we get to share and try to help each other. And I really appreciate all the thoughts and prayers. I really do.
After doing it we brought him home and buried him in a spot he loved and then I had to depart on an 11 hour drive by myself which was brutal as the only thing I could think about was him.
Now a few days removed my family and other animals are my attention while he is still on my mind a lot.

Again, I really appreciate everything you guys do for each other here. It is more than special.

Give those critters a little extra special love today.

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I am so, so sorry ORC for you and your family!! My prayers go to you all!

So sorry to see you lost your buddy, ORC My condolences.

Sorry for your loss.

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I am so very sorry for your loss.

Words just never seem to be enough, when we grieve the loss of one of our Pets.

I wish there was more I could say, I am truly very sorry.

I’m so sorry.

Sorry for your loss!