**** you, Cancer.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Just got the call that one of the pups has Multiple Myeloma - bone cancer.

This goddamn disease has taken enough of my family, now the dog?

The wife doesn't know yet, she's going to be crushed.

Has anyone else dealt with this? How long before you had to make "the decision"?

She's in good spirits now, she just can't get around as well as she used to.

[seclark]

sorry to hear it otwp. she's a very pretty dog.

i had to put down my 14 year old lab last sunday. took her to the river and buried her on a sand bar where we looked for arrowheads. bad deal.
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[Monty]

We went through this a few years ago with our dog...sucks so much, but held off as long as possible. There is never a good time, it becomes about how much you want your pet to suffer. Our thoughts are with you my friend.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Ugh. Wife will be home in about a half hour. Not looking forward to this conversation.

[The Franchise]

Sorry to hear about that man. Putting down a good friend is never easy.

[BoneKrusher]

went through this with my Himalayan cat in March of this year, she had bladder cancer.

it's like losing a family member to me.

[Bowser]

That totally sucks. I share your sentiments of cancer.

[In58men]

There's a ****ing cure for cancer they just make millions and millions on the medical treatments they don't want to come out and say there's an actual cure.


This world is crooked I tell ya

[RealSNR]

My german shepherd is only three years old and has some form of doggy Chrohn's Disease. Big dog breeds usually don't live that long to begin with, and now he's going to have an extra shortened lifespan. He's doing just fine with prednisone treatments as necessary and not really in any pain at all, but the time when I'm going to have to take him in is much shorter than I'd like it to be.

Very sorry to hear about your friend, OTW.

[TrebMaxx]

Sorry to hear that. Sucks, I know. Both of my Aussies have cancer. So far they have been doing fairly well. Appetites come and go and one of them will whimper out of the blue now and then. I think the one that whimpers will go first and the other will follow pretty quick. They are litter mates and like two peas in a pod.

[Canofbier]

So sorry to hear it, losing pets is rough. My 7-year-old yellow lab had to be put down when I was 12, and I was devastated. On the bright side, all dogs go to heaven.

[Frazod]

That sucks. It's too bad that cancer isn't a person you can tie up in the cellar of a remote building and slowly torture to death over the course of several weeks.

[Chiefnj2]

I had to put down my 1 1/2 year old dog because of cancer. She started limping and we were treating her for what they thought the limp was (nothing serious). Then a few weeks later she started coughing. They did x-rays and she had bone cancer in the shoulder that had metastasized to her lung.

The doctor said she was probably in pain and would get worse quickly. We had them wake her up from the x-ray so we could say good-bye. We said our good-byes in the room and then I spent the next few hours sobbing like a baby in the parking lot in my car.

[stevieray]

bummer.

as someone said...beautiful dog.

[DeezNutz]

Sorry to hear this, man. All best and good thoughts your way.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Thanks for the thoughts guys. Just told the wife, and she's a wreck.

Figure we'll just continue loving and spoiling the hell out of her for whatever time we have left.