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My golden retriever mix, Honey had a little lump removed fom her left rear leg outside her knee a couple of months ago. From looking at it my vet did not think it was cancer, but once it was removedhe said it looed "ugly undeneath." When report came back---mast celltumor, bu the edges were clean. He had gotten it all. However, including the histopath report, our bill was jst a ta over$300. But we did have to add a little more to get antibiotics when she bused the insiicion open and had this gaping hole in her leg. But she s al healed now with a tny ara o no fur on her leg. However, her fur is so long you don't even notice it unless looking for it. It is better to get the bumps removed and teted if there is any doubt at all. I hope your girl is cancer free.

We just had a masts cell tumor removed from our golden retriever mix's leg 4 weeks ao yesteday. I am talking Texas here. Before surgery we had a full blood panel done to make sure there was no problem with liver, kidneys any infection, thyroid, etc. She was given an injection of benadryl and one of valium before going into ER. There she had a tube down there throat that divided into two and gas was in one side, oxygen the other. I was in the Or to watch the procedure. She didn't want to go under and they had to give her another injection. The incision was about 4 inches long and took many satitches. After surgery she was given tetnaus injection. ..and they trimmed her nails (no charge for that) Cost for all that---$302. It was $90 to have the tumor sent off and tested to make sure a clen margin was obtained. It was clean. The tumor was on the side of her leg, knee level. She ended up busting it open over a week later and I had to take her back in. They would not restitch it as it probably wouldn't heal, but cleaned it up and put her on 2 weeks supply of antibiotics. If I remember correctly that trip in ran me around $50 and that was because of the drugs. I hope the lump turns out to be nothing for your dog.

My vet goes 3 years for vax and after age 7-8, none at all except law required rabies. Another thing, as most, if not all of you know, ProHeart was pulled from the market here back in Sept. 2004 after it had killed so many dogs, including my golden retriever, Hunter, and only returned last summer. They say it is "reformulated" but it carries a ton of warnings and one is to not give it within a month of any vaccination. Nw according to them ackn Jan. 2005 when hey tried to get it back on the market, the 12 month version used down there was brought up and Dr. Rami Cobb of Fort Dodge said it was the same vaccine only triple the strength of the 6 month version used here. Now this time out it is suppose to be reformulated. I do not know if you all still get the "old version" or the newer reformulation, but if it is the new one, don't give it within a month of any vax. Heck, I wouldn't give it at all after what happened here.

That is great news. I was in a panic when Honey busted opn he incision and this big gaping wound right in the middle of the incision. M vet said it would not heal ifrestitched, had to heal from the inside out. Said it would take abou 4 weeks, but in 2 1/2 it is almost healed and she is rid of that dang cone--and I can grow skin back on my legs now!

Well, I don't know how Honey did it, but during the night she maaged to bust open the middle part of her incision. There was this big gaping hole in her leg. Instant panic,of course. The stitches were due to come out today and it was so un-healed as to have that hole. I figured it would have to be restitches...she d aMas Cell Tumor removed from her left rear leg on the outside of her knee 11 days ago. But Rickey said no, it would not heal if it was stitched up again, it will have to heal from the inside out. He had removed a small tumor from Gracie's side 4 weeks ago, right bhind her shoulder, and she managed to scratch and rip it open. She had to heal the same way. Gracie is his English Setter who will be 10 in Sept. They flushed it out and now I have to do the same twice a day and she is on antibiotics for 2 weeks. It will leak so I had to put down old towels, beach towels, etc all over the areas of livingroom where she lays. And she is in the cone another 10 days at least. Did removed the remaining stitches over and below the hole. Said actually her leg looks great. No infection or redness of any kind.

I really do not know much about the problem your dog is having, but I wonder of Milk Thistle could be of help? I belong to a site where every either has a dog battling autoimmune hemolytic anemia, has a dog in remission, or lost a dog to it (I lst my golden retriever to it back in '03). The durgs to get it under control ar massive and so hard on liver and sometimes kdneys and all are giving their dogs milk thistle. Some o the meds I have to take for my many ailments are hard on liverr, and I take milk thistle. Perhaps you ca ask your vet about it.

Acording to Fort Dodge, it is the same only triple strength down there. It was pulled from the market here on Sept. 3, 2004, which was 10 months after it killed my 4 year old Golden Retriever, Hunter. On Jan. 31, 2005, Fort Dodge had a large heraing, or whatever you want to call it with ouranimal division of the FDA to try to get it back. Public was invited. Some who had lost a adog/dogs or almost lost a dog/dogs attended and testified. Hundreds of us sent in our stores aead of time and each of the 15 panel members got copies of all the stories and read them before hand. During the hearig, Fort Dodge was there in force with their vets, lawyers, whatever. According to those that atened, FD came armed with charts, grpahs, you name it. They told how safe the product was, etc and they were questioned by the panel members. Fort Dodge vet, Dr. Rami Cobb talked about ho in Australia the product was 3 times the strenght of the product used here as it was one year, and they didn' have the deaths, reacgtions, reported down there that are reported here. They wre tryn to say that most of the reported cases here not actuallydue to ProHeart6. Cases here are reported to the govenemtn Food and Drug Admiinstration animal division, all reports are gone over and when a patern s seen, well. the FDA does something. They had Fort Dodge change the warning label wice and the day my Hunter got hsi fatal injection death was added as a reaction. For the record, Hunter's complete history was sent to the FDA sothey could evaluate the case, and most of who I talked to had also sent complete history or their dog/dogs. It was these reports that caused the FDA to tell Fort Dodge to withdraw it from the market. When the panel askDr. Cobb if cases were investigated the same way down there she said yes, pretty much so. BUT according to many from down there that came to American forumslooking for answers as to why their dog died or was on meds the rest of it's life, that is not the case. They said down there the reaction or death is reported to the government and then the governemnt turns it over to Fort Dodge to investigate. I say that is like ltting the fox investigate the henhouse raid. Heck, even here a vet telling them the AIHA or liver damage or gastric problem, seizures, deaths was caused by their product, they denied it. We that lost/almost lost dogs joke that even if the dog died with the needle still in it's skin with the vet injectting ProHeart6,they would claim it did of fright of the vet! Well, they did not convince the panel it was safe. On thing I think that hurt them was they had always clained only 3 of te 281 field tested dogs had reactions and they were all sick or underweight. Yet records showed that 9 more (I think it was 9) din't finish the test. They were asked why those other dogs didn't finish, what happened to them to prevent them from fihishing ( there wa no record of why they didn't finish) and the guy said some had been killed in huning accidents, some hit by cars, some "ate" antifreeze." So it appears outof 281 dogs, 12 didin't finish, either to reaction of untimely death. I think the panel saw it the same way the ones who went to tell their dog's story saw it. That is waY to many test to have met untimely deaths. So the FDA did not allow it back on the marekt, told them more research had to be done. One whoattendec (she almost lost her show Italian Greyhound) called me from Washington as soon as the "verdict was in. That night our computers were almot burned up spreadng the word to others who coud not attend. Even today,ll these yeafrs laer, many of us are stll inclose contact via e-mails and occasional phone calls. Now, all that I have written can be fond at http://www.dogsadversereactions.com. Even the 300 page transwqcript from the meeting can be found there. The lady that has this sight almost lost her ug, Velvet to PH6 and she was at the meeting. As was Jean from Colorado who lost 2 of her 3 dogs and the other, 6 years later is still on meds, three from Texas including a vet, etc. I know many, many dogs got it with no problme. But when it kills more dogs in 3 years than all of the forms of heartworm pills combined , some having been out for as long as 25 years, that should give one 2ed thoughts I personally know of 4 other dogs in my little town that had reactions, one, an Aussie shepherd, almost died, a standard poodle was on meds the rest of her life for gastric problems fafter her PH6 injection, the other were not so serious. One other thing.....when a dog goes into seizures or gets sick within hours of a PH6 injection, most suspect it was the PH6. But with cases of the liver damage or AIHA it took a couple ofweeks to a couple of months. And most didn't suspect. I would have neverthought it was the PH^ that brought on Hunter's AIHA and liver damage had my vet not said so, and then all research found so many others and it turns out thos wer the 2 top reactions that killed. Intrceptor is what I used before Hunter's death and all I have used since. No injectable that stays in their system for months and certainly not a year. The pills are gone in about 36 hours. They actually are a dewormer to kill the teeny baby heartworms the dog may have developed since the pill the month before. They stand a much better chance of survival if there is a reaction than with one that stays in their system every day for 6 months or a year and can not be removed.

I have already joined the yahoo rou, and also told another mast cell tumor victim owner about ti and she has joined also with her dog Bailey. We met onDogser when I posted about Honey and she replied her dog had the surger 2 months ago and is having problem.s

I was born in Perth----actaully Mt. Lawly--at St. Annes Hospital. My Mom geew up in Bassendean. I still have some cousins down there that I am in contact with. Never met them as Mom and I joined my American Dad here in the states back in '46.

Several years agomy golde retriever KayCee had what I thought was a seizure. I ruhed her to the vet and it was what he called a vertigo episode due to a very deep ear infection. She ha not been scratching her ear, shaking her head, there was no redness or small. He had me put drops in her ear for 2 weeks. She never had another episode. There was no hint of ear infection. My honey had been shaking her head a lot and I suspect ear infecion despite clean, ears with no smell. But her ears were fine. It was just a "nervous shake" my vet said. So you never really know and it is bet to get them checked.

I belong to an all breed forum that has a lady that fosters a lot of special needs dogs and she has learned so much about the chinese herbs and accupuncture. She has a blond (buff) cocker with AIHa and he has survived despite all odds for 2 years. He has had the usual tretments including several transfsions, but she also goes with a lot of theChinese herbs. Same with her cancer dogs, renal failure dogs, etc and has great sucess using them. I really don't know much about them, but have gon with some of the things she has suggested.

I agree----it sounds like an allergic reaction to me.

I LOVED the day in his life. Those are great pictures. Id say,tho, he did look a little sad while getting his bath. Thse rescue/aoped dogscan be sover spcial HOne was dopte whenshe was right at a year old and was heartworm positive and we had to have her treated. That is really rought on a dgo and oin their "parents" She had to spend 6 weeks in a wire crate only out about 5 times a day on short leah to go out and do her business.

I am so sorry your boy has this tumor and you are going thru all this worry. HOepfully the radiation will shrink it and yo will have your guy for many years.

Honey will not touch raw meat of any kind. I cook her chicken thighs and necks along with either gizzxards or beef liver and the sweet pototates, apples, green beans and sometimes squash. That she LOVES. I am thinking of adding spincah or otherleaf green. It is also my understanding that yellow/orange veggies are really good for dogs with MCT. Mayvbe you should call your vet and find out about getting him on anti-histamines if he isn't already, and I don't remember you mentioning him being on them. Honmey just had her morning dose of 2 benadryl tablets-she i 72 pounds and the dosage is 1 for ech 25 pounds and since she is so close to 75 pounds, she gets 3. You guy is jst to cute. The more pictures I see of him, the more I want to snatch him right off my screen and keep him for myelf.! This is me and my Honey taken last iNOv. A young frind of mine and I were going fishing (he adopted us as his parents) and he wanted to get a picture of Honey to show his wife. Had been a while she she ad seen Honey. I know I look a fright--was just geting over my broekne nose and stitches in mymy face and broekn thumb from a fall. And hubby hates my short hair--but it is so easy to care for!

I said Honey was on pred and I meant Benadryl. I had just come from a golden retrieve forum and we had been talking about pred and it was on my mind. I love that last picture, Made me want to reach up and kiss him right on the nose! There are so amny kinds of cancer. Ilost my Irsh Stter to bncance ackl 9,197 n golden Retriever, KayCe to gatintestina stromal tumor May 25, 2008, and now Honey diagnosed with Mast Cell,. Three dogs diagnosed with cancer and all different. The Morris Animal Foundation here in thestates is doing extensive research into a cancer vaccine and things are looking good. It may be years before proven, but hoepfull it will.

I said Honey was on pred and I meant Benadryl. I had just come from a golden retrieve forum and we had been talking about pred and it was on my mind. I love that last picture, Made me want to reach up and kiss him right on the nose! There are so amny kinds of cancer. Ilost my Irsh Stter to bncance ackl 9,197 n golden Retriever, KayCe to gatintestina stromal tumor May 25, 2008, and now Honey diagnosed with Mast Cell,. Three dogs diagnosed with cancer and all different. The Morris Animal Foundation here in thestates is doing extensive research into a cancer vaccine and things are looking good. It may be years before proven, but hoepfull it will.

What a cute fellow you have that. Love that face. My siser has a beagle, Jazz, who is 13 and spoiledrotten. But back to you problem. My golden retrielver mix Honey just had a grade 2 mast cell tumor removed from the outsdie of her left leg about even with hr knee last Thursday. We had foundd the odd looking place--looked and felt like a tiny balloon halffull of liquid. Our vet removed it and snt itof just n theafe sd--he ad reoed att tumofro er chstlat ug--n tereport came back as the mast cell tumor. He wnated to make sure he had it all so more surgery last rturdays He cut out a large area, going about an inch or so on all sides of the originial inciesion and down to muscle. He is sure he got it all, but of course we will not know til report comes back. Said it appeard it was all skin and not down below skin. But of course, that is just his observation. And since MCT's give off histamine, she is on heavey pred as a precaustion and I guess she will be unil we know for sure it is all gone. Hoping for th bewt for that cute boy of yours.

Growing up on farm back in the 50's and early 60's, we gave ALL cooked bones to our English Setters and pointers. Tis included squirrel, rabbit, chicken, duck, cove, quail, steak, porck chops & ribs, ham, etc. We never had a single dog develop any kind of problem.d HOWEVER I would never do it today. One of our nieghbors lost a young husky up to chicken bone and I saw a lab puppy beng treated at my vets for peritonitis after a pork chop bone splinter and punctured his stomach. ...it died. When Hon ey our golden retiever mix ATE and I mean ATE hubby's leaher wallet 2 yes ago--she was 5 years ld a th tme--and only left the section the picktres were in. She also chewed ff corner of his one credit card he had in there and his driver's licensce, whiich i just like a credit card. I was in a panic. Called my vet and he said give her some slices f bread, tho he thought the leather of the wallet would also help protect from the hard plastic. For two days and nights I followed her around--her on a leash, and me with a stick in hand to "stir" the poop. At night, that also included a flashlight. I never saw the pieces of the credit card & license, but sur saw the pieces of leather.

Honey has b een on Taste Of The Wild food for a year now. It is grainless. It come in 3 formyulas and she prefers the High Prairie which is buffalo and deer, fruist and veggies, etc, and is becomigvery popular ovrhere One formula is Wetlands and is duck, pheasant, etc, and one is Pacific Stream--orsomething similar tothat and is salmon. However, I do give hr canned salmon or mackeral a couple of times a week, or fresh caught fish if I have luck fishing. She ss on fish oil and vitamin E and EsterC, mik thistle and cranberry capsuls I just learned of Essiac Tea and am going to order some of it. My vet has her on Benadryltables to help fight the histamine given off by MCTs. I lost my 12 1/2 year old Irish Setter, Boots to bone cancer back on July 7, 1997. He started limping on the Friday and we thought his arthritis was acting up, By Monday when we could get him to the vet he was dragging thatleg. It was such an aggressive kind that my vet said we coupld amputate THAT DAY and hope it had not spreadl wait a couple of days and he would probably not be able to get up or want to eat and then release him, or do nothing and let him go on his own----which of course Rickey knew I would NEVER do. Because of his age and having arthritis, we decided to give him a coupl of good days doing what he loved most--going fishing with me. Wll, long story shrt, he learned a bunny hop, he put on weight, he swam, he cahsed crabgs in shallow water, even pulled fish off my stringer a couple of times. I took him in 2-3 times each week for my vet to look at him, weight him (he didn't charge me) and each time he would say "Well, we don't have to do i yet. I had that old man exactly 10 weeks, 10 fun filled weeks of goinG fishing with me every single day. We never regreted no amputating o doing drastic measures. A younger dog, we would have dealth with it differently, tho.

When ProHeart6 first hit the market here, it was claimed to be safe or any dog, inluding heartworm positive dogs, and with any vax, antibiotic, etc, Plain and simple, it was as safe as bottled drinkng water. But then theFDA got reports of heartworm positive dogs ying after getting it and they had Fort Dodge change to the lable to "treat heartworm positive dogs before using ProHeart6." As more an more reports of seizures, AIHA, liver damage, etc, came in, the lable was changed again at the FED's say, and then the day Hunter got i fatal injection, "death" was finally listed. Only I did not know any of this til after his death. The dear Doctor letters that were ent from Fort Dodge to vets can be found at www.dogsadversereactions.com When it was pulled from the market here, Canada did not pull it BUT they set out reports, letters to vets, etc saying it was to ONLY BE USED on dogs that could not take any other form of prevention. I suspect this came about because of us being neighbors and well aware of what goes on the other country--and it seems half of Canada must be on American dog forums. I don't know what Canada's stand is on the"reformulated version" that is out now. But as stated in other post, the product is loaded with warnings. And I can tell you this, I am sure it would never have been removed from the market if the FDA had not told them to do so. The first time there wereads all over TV and radio for it, but so far I hav no sen r heard single one. And according to posts on my golden retriever forums, many of their vets are not usng it this time after what happene last time. I think itwrong that the same warnings are not on your stuff. They probably would not be on ours if not for the animal division of theFDA keeping upwith the reports and knowing how deadly it as the first time. Fort Dodge stll claims he first round was "safe", yet it is reformulted and the"residue thought o cause some ractions" has been removed Oh by the way, Pfizer is buying out Wyeth/Fort Dodge and the deal should be sealed by the end of the year. All of us still in contact that lost/almost lost a dog/dogs the first time around are wonering how this will affect the ProHeart6--will they push it harder, keep it the same, etc.

Thank you so much. I lostmy golen retriever, KayCee to gastrointestinal stromal tumor May 25, 2008, so Honey bing it with cacer in less than a year has really shaken me. The ting is, everything I read says 55=67% of all golden retrievers develop cancer. I belong to smaller golden forums and one pretty large one. On the large, three weeks ago we 4 new comers whose dogs had just been diagnosed with cancer. Mak had just turned 2, small lump came up on side they took him right in--cancer had started on rib and was already in lungs and liver. They let him go Monday last week. That same week, Maarten , 4 year old golden, bone cancer in wrist, Tanner, 12 year old therapy golden, cancer in back of mouth already in nodes in neck, and 4 month old golden puppy, lump came up over the eye, wasa grade 2 MCT Last Friday we 2 more new comers--one with lymphoma, the other with brain tumor. It is really depressing thinkin of all the wonderful dogs being diagnosed with cancer and more and more of us are starting to believe a lot of the problem is over vaccination.....and that includes my vet. He has gone to vaxevr 3eas, nottal atra 7 (unles terehapens to be an outbreak of something) except for law required rabies. When you think of the amount of vax the dogs get--and I think they get more ehre than down there--on top of flea/tick conrol, heartworm prevention, and then so many have allergies and end up getting injetions for that, well that is a lot of drugs to be pumping into their bodies.

A couple of weeks ago we noticed what appeared to be a tiny blister on Honey's left leg to the side of her knee. It did actually look and feel lke a blister half full of fluid. I togt her into the vet the next day and he checked it out and said for me to bring her in and he would "zap" it off. So I took her in a few days later, he removed it and sent it off for a pathology report. The reprt came back Grade 2 mast cell tumor. So, it was back in last Thursday and he did surgery on that leg and removed a large aread to make sure he got clean edges--which of course we wil not know for sure til report comes back, but he is sure we got it early and he got a clean margin. I got to be in the operating room and watch the surgery. It was facinating. She had the tub down her throat that went into two, one for gas and one for oxygen. Then there was the heart monitor hooked to her chest and the blood pressure monitor hooked to her back leg. He cut out an area about an inch or more on all sides of the original incision--which was small-- and went down to the muscle. After it was removed, he cauterized it and then ut in abut 10 stitches. She had halluciantions when she was coming around and I had to sit and hold her head for about an hour til she was over them. I have been with several ofmy dogs righ afer surgery and she is the only who has ever had hallucinations and she had them after her dental/fatty tumor removal last Aug. They say some dogs have them so bad they actually have to be held down to keep them from ripping stitches out. It is scarey to see. On of the nurses on my golden retriever forum said that children also have the same reaction and parents never know. I am hoping and praying that it comes back clean margin. Goldens are so prone to cancer, omethinglike 67% get one form or another of it.

I am so sorry you and your boy are facing this. On the large golden retriever forum I belong to, many have lost their dogs to this forum of cancer. Usually it was found way to late for any treatment to work at all. Here is hoping thchemo works for you guy.

A lot of very adverse reactions from dogs. Immediate or long term?? What sort of reactions?? Well, the worse one is permanent--death. It killed many many dogs here in America, (the 6 month ProHeart.)..including my 4 year old golden retriever, Hunter Here deaths are reported to the animal division of the Food and Drug Adminstration The reactions that caused the most deaths were autoimmune hemolytic anemia, liver damage and seizures. Many also developed gastric bleedig. Many that survied are on meds the rest of their lives. My Hunter was hit with the AIHA and liver damage. His histopath report from necropsy stated "cdug induced necrosis of the liver. Several lost more than one dog. Jean B. in Colorado took all 3 of hers in and got ProHeart6 the same day. In two months, 4 year old Tasah was dead of AIHA and 11 year old Niki dead of the liver damage, and 2 year old Casey on meds---and 6 years later he is still on meds. Stacy in Floida took both hers in the same day and a couple of days later her pom precious was dead and her sheltie Jamie Lyn was fighting for her life. She did survive. One in Philly lost both of her hers, one in Canada lost 3 including her seeing-eye-golden. We found each other over the net and we worked together spreading the word. Meanwhile the FDA vet saw a pattern of deaths and reactions and started the recall procedure. It is the only drug for dogs ever pulled . According to Dr. Hampshire, the FDA vet, there were over 600 reported deaths, 6000 reactions and only 10 to 15% are reported--meaning thousdands of deaths in the 3 years it was on the market here. Many of us are still in close contact with each other and the FDA. We have done massive studes of all the different heartworm preventions. We can get all the info from ourgovernemnt thru the Freedome of Information Act. One lady who is a whiz at this has the site www.dogsadversereactions.com and thereyou can find a ton of info. Proheart6 killed more dogs in 3 years than allothes combined and some had been out 25 years. My Hunter died Oct. 16, 2003 and it was pulled from the market Sept. 3, 2004. It was only allowed back on last summer after being off almost 4 years, but it has a TON of wanrings that include not giving it to weak, under weight dogs, Do not ive within a month of any vaccination. Use extreme care using it on dogs with allergies, including food allergies. Also, use care when using it on dogs over 7 years of age. AND before vets can purchase it they have to take a class over the web. My vet pushed it the first time out. He is carrying it again BUT he does not have any of the posters or pamplets around. You have to specifically ask for it and he has to give all the warnings. And by the way, the 12 month version is TRIPLE the srength of the 6 month version used here. That was stated at the hearing Jan. 31, 2005 in their first attempt to get it back on the market. They were trying to say there were no rections reported down ther, but we had proof that was not true. One thing, tho, the monthly pills do not stay in their system. What it does is kill the baby worms they have picked up in the previous month. I had thought it stayed a month until all the problems with PrtoHeart came up. Id DID STAY in their system and was released over a 6 month period. One of the things was if a dog ha a reaction to it, nothing could be done it had the stuff in it's system for 6 months. Whereas the Interceptor, etc is gone in about 36 hours. It is actually a dewormer rather than prevention. I have no ideda how bad mosquitoes are down there, bt here on the Texas coast, it is almost a certainty that if you dog is not on the pills they will get heartworms. Honey was right at a year old when we adopted her--and she was heartworm positive. Our neighbors moved in with a cocker and added another, refused to give the pills because the ogs were indoor dogs and lost both of them to heartworms. And I would never go more than 45 days between pills. I use Interceptor as it also controls hook, whip and round worms and we have never had a dog develop heartworms or other worms--esxcept tape worms once--in the many many years I have used it. My only mistake was putting my Hunter on that stinking ProHeart6. If this work, it is a picture of my Hunter, lost to PrHeart6 and our oldest son.