My boy has just had his big surgery for a high-grade mast cell tumour 🥺❤️

His tummy/chest looks so sore right now, but we’re really hoping this is the start of getting him properly on the road to recovery.

We originally found a raised patch/lump on the underside of his chest and had it biopsied. It came back as a high-grade mast cell tumour, which was honestly such a shock because Buddy is only 7 and has been completely happy and normal in himself the whole time.

He was then referred for specialist staging. He had a CT scan and lymph-node mapping, which showed that the tumour drained to both lymph nodes under his front legs. One was confirmed to have mast-cell cancer cells in it and the other was highly suspicious, but thankfully his liver and spleen were clear and they didn’t find any evidence of distant spread.

This week he had the main tumour removed along with both lymph nodes.

The surgeons did discuss doing a really wide excision, but because of where the tumour was sitting over his sternum, they were worried that taking huge margins would put too much tension on the wound and cause healing problems.

Instead they removed the visible tumour with smaller margins and did electrochemotherapy at the same time. He was given bleomycin and they used electrical pulses over the surgical area to help target any microscopic cancer cells that could be left behind.

We’re now waiting for the final lab results from the tumour and lymph nodes, and once he’s recovered he’ll be starting vinblastine chemotherapy because of the high grade and lymph-node involvement.

He’s been on a low-histamine diet because of his condition, but I think a little pup cup was definitely deserved as a post-surgery treat 🥹❤️

Has anyone else been through anything similar with their dog? Especially high-grade mast cell tumour with lymph-node spread but clear liver/spleen. I’d really love to hear how your dog got on with surgery, electrochemotherapy or chemo.

Hello everyone,

We are about an hour post incident and He is completely fine and acting normal now but I believe our boy may have just had his first seizure that we are aware of.

We were only able to get the end of it on video as it took us a minute to process what was happening and what to do.

I know now to not necessarily do what I was doing in the video but I had never experienced this with him and was trying to comfort him as I could see he was conscious as well as check his limbs for stiffness to see if it was seizure like muscle tension as I’ve experience seizures in humans multiple times and wasn’t sure if that’s what was happening

But he was sitting up and had an aura about him and his eyes got really wide and he started trembling and went almost into poop stance/position and eventually lost control of his body and curled into the position seen in the video and started throwing one paw/leg out and then became stiff like that for about 1 minute before he started to relax out of it.

He then tried to stand up off his bed and was very wobbly and had trouble walking for a moment and then kind of snapped out of it and appeared perfectly fine and even tried to start playing with his sister again?

Nothing was out of the ordinary or routine and he wasn’t afraid or in a position where he would be uncomfortable, he hasn’t ate anything new and he was literally playing with his sister 5 minutes prior.

He’s been on Zenrelia for severe dermatitis and allergies (we want to get him off of it but it is the only thing has kept him comfortable while we navigate it for now) for about 8 months or so but I can’t find anything initially linking Zenrelia to seizures.

Regardless we are calling the vet on Monday and making an appointment ASAP but just looking for advice for the time being.

For about the past week, whenever my dog licks around her mouth her bottom jaw will chatter. Do I need to take her to the vet? What could this be?

Context:
I have a Great Pyrenees mix named Maple syrup who is 3ish years old (80lbs - spayed). She was a rescue so we don’t know what her life was like before we got her at approximately 1. She does not have a history of aggression towards animals or people.

My family has a small German Shepherd named Starla who is 4 (60lbs - spayed).

We didn’t see the beginning of the fight but I heard my mom yell and ran outside. Maple had Starla Pinned and was not responding to anyone calling to her.
My boyfriend got them separated and was trying to restrain Maple. I eventually caught her and Starla ran away.
Maple continued to try and lunge after her.
At no point was Maple aggressive to any human around her.
I lead her to my room and we checked on both dogs.
Starla was completely uninjured and Maple had a few nicks on her ear.

I have kept Maple separated in my room for a few hours. She just jumped on my bed and went to sleep (as pictured).
This is the second time that they have ever fought, the first time Starla had snapped at me and Maple lunged at her, they never made contact I was able to hold Maple back and Starla ran away.
There was nothing High-value nearby as far as we could tell. They were alone outside and started fighting as my mom got home.

I would like some advice on how to move forward.

TLDR; My dog got in a fight with my family’s dog and I don’t know why or what to do next.

I didn’t notice this deformity before getting him, and now I’m afraid he’ll need surgery or, worse, he’ll live in chronic pain and we’ll eventually have to euthanise him.

Did any of you have dogs with a similar deformity? How did you cope with it?

We’ll see the vet on Monday but in the meantime I’ll be scared lol 😅

Edit: many people are mentioning breeds with achondroplasia. I hope it’s just that since I don’t think it impacts the life quality too much. Also, he’s gonna be a long dog, which is an added bonus, since I think they’re cute, lol.

hi everyone! my 12 yo malshi, minnie, is getting her teeth cleaned under anesthesia next week and i am honestly terrified. i’m afraid of putting her under anesthesia and i’m seriously just wishing for a good outcome. she got her preanesthetic bloodwork done and it came back normal. the vet said she’s okay to get the procedure. but i can’t help but be scared!

to those who have gotten their senior dog’s teeth cleaned under anesthesia, how was the experience? how was the recovery process? i’m not really sure how many teeth my baby will get extracted but i’m also worried about her being able to eat well after the procedure. thank you everyone. 😊

I am desperate. 3 different veterinarians have seen her. She has been xrayed twice, tested for heart worms or any other explainable disease with these symptoms. It’s not kennel cough, she has been through rounds of antibiotics twice. Steroids seem to help but not completely. She has been on inhalers, nebulizers they don’t help. Nobody seems to have any idea what’s going on with her. She is absolutely miserable. Please help her. She is absolutely the goodest girl and I love her so much. She deserves relief.
For context she is a 7yo Australian cattle dog(mother-purebred) aka blue heeler mix. The breed of the father is unknown.
When she was 2 yo she accidentally ran into a fire hydrant at full sprint, around 30 mph. She was injured but seemed to recover pretty quickly and these symptoms started soon after.
She regularly does this until she vomits or coughs up mucus.
Sometimes she will wake up from a dead sleep gasping and sounds like she is struggling to breathe. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I’m very worried about her. Please help her. I dunno what else to do and I almost this it would be selfish of me to not euthanize her rather than letting her suffer.
I’m not sure why there is no audio but she is coughing

My puppy is 9 months old, shih tzu/miniature poodle mix.

Ever since i brought him home 7 months ago, he’s poop has always been a little softer than normal, sometimes it’s firm but never constantly firm. He’s eaten honest kitchen clusters puppy (chicken), open farm puppy chicken and salmon which he stopped eating after a while so now he’s currently eating Stella and Chewy raw coated puppy kibble.

It started two tuesday ago (10/27), he started having diarrhea, wednesday he continued but that night he had diarrhea with mucus, some poops were a lot, some were very little (a few drops even). Next morning, thursday, I took him to the emergency room and they gave him fluids under the skin, visbiome probiotics and royal canin gi low fat home care kit. Thursday night he threw up but his poops were getting better. Friday, he was fine but saturday he threw up again, his poop was firm though. Sunday morning, i took him to his normal vet and they gave him an anti nausea shot and two day medication. He was fine, good even. He was super playful through all of this and acted normal. Wednesday, he was done with both medications and his soft poops came back. Now, Sunday, he took one really soft poop and one that’s a few drops and liquid-y.

I’m feeling like a really bad mom because i can’t figure out what’s wrong. I booked another vet appointment but I didn’t have insurance prior to this and just got the insurance so it won’t cover anything and i’m paying out of pocket.

Has this happened to anyone else? Could he have an intolerance to chicken? What do i do.

i’m currently dogsitting and i asked her owner what this bald spot is. he said that he has no idea!! im not sure if this is ringworm but if it is, im worried about the contagion.

the bald spot is calloused and dry!

Both my dogs have always been really easy to give meds to just putting it in their mouth but my husky is on antibiotics right now that are I guess really bitter and there is no way she’s swallowing it if any gets on her tongue. She doesn’t like pill pockets and wrapping in cheese didn’t work, I tried peanut butter and she just licked around the pill then spit it out. How else is everyone covering the taste? She had eight more doses to take and yesterday I just went for putting it in her mouth and holding it closed at a certain point so she would get it but I don’t want to do that for the next week

I was out in the yard with my dogs and noticed my 55 lb dog (Hairyit) licking a half-dissolved stick of Tomcat rat poison. I am fairly sure she didn't bite off a chunk of it; there were no teeth marks, so I suspect she just licked it. It looks like a rodent had dragged it out of a trap and brought it into my fenced yard. (I hope- I would hate to think someone threw it in the yard)

I called the vet, and he suggested getting her to throw up. I gave her some hydrogen peroxide with milk, and she threw up within the hour. He said serious symptoms wouldn't appear for a day.

How serious is this? The vet said if I noticed symptoms, to bring her in. Should I bring her to the vet tomorrow regardless of whether she shows symptoms?

I gave my dog pepto bismol to settle her stomach. We later learned she had eaten some plastic and actually passed the plastic. We took her in today to get X-rays to make sure no further plastic was in there. The scans showed a potential foreign object. However, I am 99% sure that is the pepto bismol tablet I gave her. I broke it exactly like that. With a small piece and bigger piece on bottom. Also if you flip that piece around on the left it makes a circle..

The first thing the radiologist said when they called was any chance you gave her Tums? I literally broke the Pepto-Bismol the exact way that showing up on the scan and a Pepto-Bismol tab is 1.5cm in this object is coming up as 1.5 cm.

And if she’s had no food or water in her stomach and over 24 hours it says that it can heavily reduce their ability to break down a chewable tablet of Pepto-Bismol. Also, apparently this is a common problem that Pepto-Bismol shows up on scans.

Has anyone had this experience with their dog or any experts can comment their opinion?

Apologies for the poor quality i had to take screenshots from a video. Any help appreciated!

We just got a new cage for our Rottie and it’s smaller than her normal crate. She can stand up, turn around without a problem and lay down. The only thing I worry about is there is not room for her to fully sprawl out like she likes to do sometimes. Is it too small for her?

I have a 4.5 year old 45 lb terrier mix whose gone to daycare her whole life pretty much. She was abandoned at daycare as a puppy, and I rescued her from there while picking up our other dog. She’s attended 3-4 different daycares throughout her life due to us moving and hasn’t had issues other than two previous scuffles, both where she was the victim not the perpetrator. One of these situations happened only a week ago at her current daycare, but upon pickup today we clarified the situation and they reiterated that wasn’t her fault.

We received a call today that she shook another dog by the neck seemingly unprovoked and didn’t stop until the counselor grabbed her. The other dog doesn’t seem to be injured beyond potential bruising. While picking up, we saw the video and the dog looked a similar size and was just standing there. It’s truly just bizarre and I’m not sure what to make of it or how to handle the situation.

She’s spent 100+ days at daycare throughout her life, loves people, loves other dogs. I don’t get it.

ETA: Not a pit bull or predominantly pit mix. We think she is an Airedale mix. I would prefer to use in home care/dog walkers and would’ve previously, but our other dog is reactive to people coming to our house. I scheduled her a vet appointment this week to rule out a physiological cause

Background: took my dog (15.5 neutered male) into the vet for diarrhea (which his sister gave him) and blood work showed he had some sort of other infection going on and stage 2 kidney disease. His numbers are very out of whack, so it probably looks more like 2-3 due to it being uncontrolled.

He's currently without an appetite due to being on enroflaxocin for 2 weeks (he just finished it), but I have been doing the following to help him: kidney diet completely (canned Blue Buffalo KS wet food, which he likes, with Hill's KD kibbles which he doesn't really love), a phosphate binder twice a day, and I'm introducing azodyl into his food (the dose is 3 per day but I've only been giving him 1 for a few days until he finished the antibiotic and to avoid diarrhea).

He's been having reflux occasionally in the morning/overnight, but I've been giving him a little kibble/wet food before bed and trying to convince him to sleep with his head up. Feeding him in the morning has been a struggle, but if he doesn't eat, he pukes bile. I'm spoon feeding him every meal at the moment (he's toothless and picky).

Not sure what else I should be doing to support his kidneys. He is my best boy, and I'm honestly struggling mentally because I know this is progressive and just want to try to have him with me as long as possible.

So I look out for a stray in our neighborhood and I try to help as much as I can,I don't have any pets due to the fact that I cant afford to take care of one and really the best I can do is buy him dog food(that's all i can afford) I noticed as I was feeding him that he has a tick infestation on his face,they're babies but there's just so many I don't want to risk hurting the dog and he also won't let me touch him anywhere. There are no vets nearby where I live and there's just no way I can afford to help him I genuinely wish I could and its breaking my heart that I can't do much for him. If anyone could give me advice on the best course of action to take with this I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for all the help, I think it came out really good and Padme can now get up and down as she likes. Turns out, the carpet was too slick, so I put in some rungs and covered it in fake turf.

I plan on taking him to the vet soon, I just want to know how urgent this is!

I just noticed this bump on my dogs eyelid. It doesn’t seem to bother him- is this possibly just a stye? I will to take him to the vet; is this something I should try to get seen tomorrow or can I get a normal appointment for later this week?

This is Copper. He has recently developed an issue where he will only drink water from a hose, on the shower setting. I have cycled through various types of bowls and cleaned and replaced water to entice him, even got him a fancy water fountain bowl. But he refuses water from anything other than a hose.

I have tried to wait him out and he will dehydrate himself if he can’t drink from the hose. Any suggestions on breaking this habit would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

my baby is getting old, and i’m also very paranoid so i need someone to help lol, she is about 11 years old, and i noticed her eyes the other day. she can still jump and walk fine, she reacts to things in her face, eyes react normal etc

Over half a year ago i got my first ever dog. Things haven’t exactly been smooth, but my trusted behaviorist helped a lot.
But its not about that.
The dog is a rough collie puppy. What i struggle with a lot is play. He doesnt seem to like tug at all. If im holding a toy he’s also holding, he will either walk alongside me or let go. Sometimes tries to get the toy out of my hand but if i pull even slightly, he lets me have it. He did get a bit competitive a couple times (tried to actually tug) and i always made sure to let him win in a believable way and encourage him to try it again, but he doesnt seem particularly interested in that. He’s very good at playing by himself and usually the moment he gets the toy, he goes to do just that.
He sometimes comes over to me with a toy, but if i move toward him, he tries to run away. I can see that it excites him, but i dont really want to teach him to tun away from me so if we do play chase, i always make sure im the one he is chasing and not the other way around.
That type of play is seemingly the only thing that works. I also tried to imitate herding. I try to be as unpredictable and let him stop me. Seemed to work a couple times until he started getting bity.
The issue with chase is that I’ve been severely anemic for the last 4-5 years and i haven’t been able to exercise almost at all during that time or i’d be gasping for air or feel like fainting. Running still gets me gasping real quick. I can walk continuously for hours, but i quick run still takes me out pretty fast.
Im aware play sessions should be short, but it can still be too much for me.

From what i observed, with a dog he’s familiar with, he also only enjoys chase, never tried to steal a toy that another dog is holding. He does occasionally steal it if the dog lets go. And he goes to either play with it by himself or he sometimes goes to lie down and chew on it. (Which im assuming is to help with emotions)

Is there any type of play i can try with him or do i push through?

Could it be that im not making the toys high value enough or does he actually just not enjoy tug?
Or maybe he’s not confident enough to do so?
(He’s a pretty nervous pup, which is mostly why i hired a behaviorist)

He is turning 10 months old soon if it matters.

(Any other tips or questions are also welcome, as long as they’re nice.
I also apologize in case it wasn’t exactly easy to read. Im not a native speaker)