My choco lab is having surgery tomorrow for a small lump that we found in the webbing of her rear left toes. The vet says that anything in the feet MUST be removed so that the toe can be saved. She is the one with all the mast cell tumor history.
My older lab(11 3/4) is having two small lumps aspirated as well tomorrow on her leg & foot.
We were talking tonight as what we will do if she has something that needs to be removed. She is so lumpy all over her with lipomas and she has so many lumps now that we don't really know if we should put her through a surgery or not. The vet says that she is strong but how do we know that something else isn't going on and we are putting her through something when something else could also be going on elsewhere. This dogs mother lived to be 14 so I really want to do what is best but don't want to cause her more grief either if something was to go wrong. I know that I am never going to know and just have to make a decision I guess when we find out the outcome of her aspiration.
So tomorrow is going to be a stressful day in our house.
The dogs won't be too happy in the morning as they can't have breakfast.
My older lab(11 3/4) is having two small lumps aspirated as well tomorrow on her leg & foot.
We were talking tonight as what we will do if she has something that needs to be removed. She is so lumpy all over her with lipomas and she has so many lumps now that we don't really know if we should put her through a surgery or not. The vet says that she is strong but how do we know that something else isn't going on and we are putting her through something when something else could also be going on elsewhere. This dogs mother lived to be 14 so I really want to do what is best but don't want to cause her more grief either if something was to go wrong. I know that I am never going to know and just have to make a decision I guess when we find out the outcome of her aspiration.
So tomorrow is going to be a stressful day in our house.
The dogs won't be too happy in the morning as they can't have breakfast.