Advice please issues with spleen.

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

My sisters dog is at the vets. She has anaemia and an infection. They have now found she has an enlarged spleen. Everything I have read says they can live without a spleen.

The vets are saying they can't remove it legally without doing a test and they can't do the test. They are saying she is coming home to die.

Does anyone have any experience of this or anything that can be done?

[missbattenburg]

I have no experience of dogs and spleens but I had my own spleen removed when I was 11 years old.

I have not missed it.

There must be more to it if the vets think the dog needs to be pts.

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

They were going to remove it but they did an ultra sound on her heart and it is not working properly. She is getting a night at home then will be going back tomorrow to be pts. So sad.