Advice or experience of please for dog with large inoperable mass in abdomen

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Hello,
my darling dog has had an ultrasound and has a large, inoperable mass in her abdomen from her bladder to her liver.

This was yesterday, I was too shocked to ask questions. I have an appointment to talk to the vet and ask questions on Monday but for now, does anyone have any experience of this, what to expect please?

She seems mostly fine in herself at the moment though is drinking a lot of water.

Many thanks if anyone can help 🙏

Oh poor girl. I'm sorry to hear that.
Last year we found out that our sweet girl had a tumour on her duodenum which had caused a small rupture. The vets said they could try to remove it but there were no guarantees and at 12 I think the recovery would have been too much for her. I made the decision to have her pts the day after we found out. Our case is perhaps slightly different because she had an infection from the rupture.
The questions I would ask myself are;
-can I manage her pain?
-can I give her a good quality of life?
If the answer to either of those questions is no then I would make the very hard decision to pts. I'm sorry you're going through this.

I agree with the pp . Our dog has a splenic mass diagnosed last year , he can’t have surgery due to other health conditions- it was discovered when he was being investigated for high blood pressure . At the time of diagnosis he was very sick but once we stabilised him on his medication he has been fine - runs around , eats well and enjoying life . Best wishes

Thank you @Floralnomad and @LBF2020 . She seems mostly fine at the moment although there are signs of discomfort that we have missed. She's eating, drinking, weeing, pooing and playing with her toys and has a happy wagging tail on her now short walks.

That’s good news!

Just to say, keep an eye on her water intake. It’s one of the things that owners never worry about and we should. Dogs drinking too much is like humans drinking to much; dangerous.

It might be worth a quick phone call to your vet to chat it through (IME most good vets will do a five minute telephone consultation to allay fears and he doesn’t need to see your dog to discuss something like this!)

I hope she’s all okay in the end! Dogs are remarkable and can live with all manner of ailments and have amazing lives :)

@Devilshands thank you, she does seem to be drinking more than usual, I will add it to my list of questions.

See what your vet says.
One of mine was found to have a mass on his spleen , by chance as he hadn’t seemed ill. Went in to have his spleen removed supposedly to recover, which one of my others had done years ago. I got a phone call from the vet which was unexpected, saying she’d opened him up & found more tumours on his liver & a couple of others. Did I want her to put him to sleep or just stitch him up to come home for the few weeks he might have left as she didn’t advise removal of the spleen with the other problems present.Complete shock so said I’d bring him home so stitch him up. He went back to the vet every week for the next two months just for a check as he was still like normal, then reduced to once a month, then once every three months for three years! All the while completely fine, the vet said “ he doesn’t know he’s ill”. After the three years he suddenly took bad over one weekend so then he was put to sleep, but he’d had three GOOD years whereas he could have gone on the day of his operation if I’d made the different decision. So play it by ear is my suggestion, you just never know what they’re capable of & if she’s not in pain or suffering she may surprise you.

@Darklane , thank you so much, what an uplifting post! I hope that all goes well, she's such a lovely girl.

I don't ever want to take her back to the vets as she's so terrified but, if she's still here when her vaccinations are due I will ask if they can do it in the carpark.

"Doesn't know he's ill", wise vet, we're watching her like hawks and she's just getting on and loving her life.

I am so glad that you got those three bonus years with your boy.