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Yesterday morning around 10ish Gibbs puked, about the size of a Pringles can top. He hadn't ate but a little bit of his breakfast and drank barely any water. I decided I wouldn't panic yet. I went to work, and when I got home 5 hours later there were 3 more puke piles about the size of dinner plates. I then took him to the vet. They asked the usual questions, "Did he get into the trash, human food, new dog food, etc" The answers were all no. The sudden vomiting with the combination of the growths he has throughout his body (a quite large one on his leg) made the vet think something I certianly didn't want to hear..."I hate to say this, but he may have CANCER, we'll do a fecal and if his intestines are fine, we'll have to look into these growths." We did the fecal and it turned out that he had some parisite that begins with a C that she said was an "environmental condition" that couldn't exactly be avoided, I couldn't tell you what the exact name of the parisite was called I was too overwhelmed (emotionally and financially), and because of the parisite also had a bacterial growth in his instestines. They gave me medicie and requested that I buy the very bland prescription dog food while he's on his medicine. They did go back to test the growth on his leg and blood and "sterile puss" came out. So she said we would hold off on testing the growth for Cancer. He's acting fine now.
Two questions:
1. A friend of mine whose basset had a parisite used stage 3 chicken baby food instead of the prescription food and her dog did great (plus it's cheaper).
2. Should I get the growths tested, the vet told me it was $192 to test each growth. I can't afford that. And if it is Cancer there's nothing that can be done about it, right? As long as he's acting fine and not in pain, do I really want to know if he has Cancer or not?
Thanks a bunch.
~Heather
Two questions:
1. A friend of mine whose basset had a parisite used stage 3 chicken baby food instead of the prescription food and her dog did great (plus it's cheaper).
2. Should I get the growths tested, the vet told me it was $192 to test each growth. I can't afford that. And if it is Cancer there's nothing that can be done about it, right? As long as he's acting fine and not in pain, do I really want to know if he has Cancer or not?
Thanks a bunch.
~Heather