Hi there
My 12 year old staffie cross is booked in to be pts tommorow evening. She has been diagnosed with a tumour in the pelvis by feel.
She started off seeming to have diffuculty passing urine and squatting and not seeming to not pass much. Also had days between passing stools. Then had blood in her urine which the vets said was an infection had antibiotics and it all cleared up .
Previous to that she had been at the vets around two months or so earlier with nail growing out akwardly and they suggested for her to loose some weight. She wasnt obese but a little overweight . We put her on a diet and then took her back for a check up where they said she was a good weight and healthy.
I thought she looked too thin when i took her to be prescribed the antibiotic the vets said she was fine weight wise. She seemed to continue loosing the weight so we stopped the diet . But it continued dropping off. Around the same time a family member died very suddenly . It took 4 months to complete the arrangments and finally have the funeral.
We noticed she now seemed very very thin got her back to vets then the same week again and they thought it could be parasite meds given. They said it could possibly be cancer but to have a xray to try and see whats going on . We would need to see how she got on as currently too poorly to put under anistetic.
Took her back for a check up the following week so we could see how she was faring see a different vet who said straight away she was too ill to xray and took weak to put under anistetic as it was high risk. Also we wouldnt be able to see anything and we would be putting her through it for nothing.
He examined her and felt around and said its a pelvic tumour which is causing great pain in her hips affecting her kidneys and also blocking her bowel. He said sadly all that could be done was prescribe painkillers and make her comfortable until we felt it was time to let her go. He could see she still had some fight in her.
Now she looks like shes had enough.
We decided whether we are ready or not its best to let her go. A part of me thinks should we have xrayed though? I dont think it could be anything else apart from cancer with all the sypmtoms and the weight loss.
So very sad 