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Thanx for everyones concern , wishing her well and trying to find choices for me and my liitle girl after more tests and subjecting my baby to more needle wounds ultrasound to find out what was wrong we decided to put her to sleep this morning to end her any more future pain, but things just went from stable to painfull and her screaming , rushing her to a 24 hour medical centre which was 25 minutes away and hearing her breathing so rapidly and loudly she passed away in our arms in the car when we got there, she still had a pulse she fought so hard every step of the way. W are in shock and depression the house is empty without her we have our other dog that we love very much , he cried and whined for her its so horrible and is looking for her (( PICTURe ON MY SWEETY GIRL LITTLE BOOTS in 2003 we found her 2002 SEPT 4th She had an aggressive spleen cancer with blood clotting factors not working and large legoins in her liver :D ....i feel so guilty and horrible for her suffering but i went to so many vets and they all said she is ok she went thru hell and back ;) .....:cool:(

My darling little one has cancer on her spleen the aggressive type....

Thank you heidig29 for your thoughts I couldn't stop crying after reading your touching post, i think everyone here feels so much for their beloved companions , i rescued my little one as well and gave her a warm loving home but i feel guilty i didn't do enough to realise something was wrong even if it was a small thing thinking her slight weight loss was due to her separation anxiety and even panting more than usual was the summer weather combined with anxiety, vets said she is fine after going there a few times for a check up>>>>>>>. she has a big growth and 4 vets couldn't feel it in her stomach ...:cool:(

Well Werribee Uni Hospital is in the phonebook under Veterinary. Thank you have spoken to them at Werribee and getting a referel from my vet to them at least it will give me an idea how bad she is after all her testing is done .....

The very first time she had her vaccine and heart worm shots she was very ill, i thought she was going to pass away then, i rang my vet and he said many dogs have this sort of reaction she will be ok dont worry, then the following year, and so on, she was ok, last year she had the same adverse reaction must of been to much for her to take and now i wished i had not given her the vacs at all, i rang the vet and spoke to the girl at the desk and she told me the heart worm is not needed in your area i asked her why wasn't i told this before if that's the case?? she said you asked for the shots!!!! i was livid but if its not needed then why wasn't i just told ,then i have a choice ,i thought i was doing the right thing by my dog , obviously the 55 dollars for heart worm needle a year was more important then being honest with me .....

We were told to rest her as much as we can because of the previous surgery 12 days ago unrelated to this condition . I did have transport before but not at the moment at all, i am in the western suburbs of Melbourne thanks....

After investigating this serious problem of spleen cancer have come to understand that annual vaccines could be a source of the problem including yearly pro hart injections ....

Thanx for your kindness i am in western suburbs ...... Any one know of any good pet ambulances thanx....

Thank you so much everyone is so understanding how did everything turn out for you was is positive???? I am in the western suburbs ...........

So very kind of you to be concerned , but the ultrasound sadly has found her spleen has doubled and she is bleeding if the original vet would of done what i asked him a blood test before she had her teeth cleaned i would of been able to of not gone ahead with teeth cleaning and cyst removal instead we could of operated and removed the mass growng in her spleen instead putting her thru a :cry:surgery 10 days ago which has nearly killed her because of the mass and weakened her severely :D my little baby is only 4 and a half and such a fighter and clever girl ...Temperature is good ....Now what do i do to weak to operate and if we dont she can die if i do operate she can die and not have long anyway i dont want to put her to sleep and i dont want to see her suffer I AM IN MELBOURNE IF ANY ONE KNOWS A GOOD HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS PLEASE LET ME KNOW ......DESPERATE

Hi i am in Melbourne THANXXX its a worry isnt it with loving animals (

I am sorry i am not well myself and very tired watching my dog through the night , friday teeth cleaned cheesy cyst removed left hip, antibiotics prescribed, saturday thru till thursday recovering well except for slight panting and spaced out look, thursday evening suddenly vomits becomes weak, and more spaced out rejects food,restless and moaning alot , friday take her back to my vet but as he wasn't there someone else sees her and says dehydration,at MY OWN suggestion he does blood test and urine test ,tells me results will be in afternoon and to stop antibiotics, he never suggested a drip there and then . !!! We went home waited and waited then no results of blood test till tomorrow grrrr, this vet is the one that said who did the rough job on her stitches.... That night she gets much worse could not even walk 3 4 steps at a time head down cant eat drinking thru a 20 ml syringe , go to emergency clinic to put her on drip and more blood tests and general check up...Everything seemed ok except for severe weakness we left her there arpox 12 hours .... . At the emergency clinic they noticed her leg was swollen, but never told us when we picked her up, and we didn't notice it till last night, we rang the emergency clinic and asked why they didn't tell us as we could of dealt with the problem there and then as its an emergency clinic she said i don' know and apologised 3 times but then said you can bring her in now at a cost of another 300 to 700 dollars . Today my dog has picked up allot except for the bloating of her tummy and swollen leg , my regular vet rang me today and said going by her blood testing results could be her spleen and a tumour on it and she might of had a bad reaction to antibiotics so wants to change to a different antibiotic to fight off a probable infection from her surgical wound . Then he suggests an ultrasound and casually tells me if the utrasound tomorrow reveals a tumour we will operate immediately, was dumbstruck she hasn't recovered from the first op, i really think another op will end her .I will never operate on her again at least not this soon and not at my regular vet clinic, if its a life and death situation i will go elsewhere....They are trying to tell me she had this problem with her blood for ages, i said you and all the vets i see on a regular basis said she is a very healthy dog and to me she was as well. I am angry as I asked for a blood test to be done before the operation and he said no need she is fine !!!! if her tooth wasn't bleeding i would of walked out and never would of done the OPERATION at all i was at a cross roads now feel guilty. Her SURGICAL WOUND WAS SO ROUGH AND oozing blood NON STOP TILL THURSDAY my vet said its ok its normal to bleed .. I am in Victoria ... All of her vital signs have been good temp was normal....thanx all

Her blood test showed on friday/saturday showed very slight case of enemia and slight case of low protien......so he seems to think might be a tumour ... Before the operation 10 days ago she had blood in her mouth and after the vet had seen her it was diagnosed as bad gums and the bleeding was from that, so i needed her teeth cleaned, i said to him before you operate i want a full urine and blood screen done he said she is well and healthy and will be fine, to be quite honest another vet that had seen her after said the stitching was very rough where she had a cyst removed antibiotics were prescribed she didn't seem to have much trouble with them but seemed spaced out and was panting quite heavily on occasions, i went back to the vet and he said she is dehydrated give fluids slowly which i did ..Then she got worse then its off to 24 hour emergency clinic for the drip....

By the way thankyou for your thoughts and any advice given. Much appreciated and a woolf woolf from her

Hi all great forum was wondering if anyone has experienced having an ill dog on an iv drip and later the dog appears to be bloated thanks all ...My little 4 year old shepherd x is sick and I am so sad..... Initially she had her teeth cleaned and a cyst removed. After being rested at home for 6 days she was well then suddenly she vomited and went downhill. She was lethargic and weak and would not eat but drank water and kept it down. She bounced back somewhat and eating and drinking after the drip but now is bloated and her leg is swollen on the same side where her cyst was removed. She has been back and forth at vets and blood test shows slight anemia and slightly low protein. All temperature and vital signs are good. She is very very tired. I will take her tomorrow to get a ultra sound to make sure there is no underlying problems. The swelling hasn't changed for 2 days now. Everything else are all normal. I have been trying to get an ultrasound for a couple of days now but either the vet isn't there that can understand it or they don't have one. The vet suggested she may need an operation tomorrow to remove what might be a tumour r on the spleen. She is so weak I am sure the operation itself can kill her. I know they have a hard job but I am beginning to be very cynical towards vets. I have been bounced around 4 times now and they keep saying she is ok and now an operation which will fix something they don't even know what's happening.