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<div>Here is my advice based on twenty years and losing 4 dogs to cancer and having one with cancer now. </div>
<div>LISTEN TO YOUR VET AND THEN,</div>
<div>LISTEN TO YOUR HEART.</div>
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<div>What do you want for Buster Frecklefeet? What does he want? Would he be ok, be happy away from home or getting chemo, being sick part of the time? Is that something you can handle? Making him sick to make him (maybe, since there simply are NO guarantees here) better? If my dog is under 8 then the answer is that we do whatever is possible, whatever sounds reasonable. (And whatever we can afford, alas.) </div>
<div>I have a dog who probably would do just fine away from home for weeks and even sick for weeks on end, he would probably bounce back. I have another who would die before they could treat him, of terror, and sadness, and lonliness, sure he had been abandoned.</div>
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<div>So you need to take the dog's personality and age into consideration, and then your wallet, and then what YOU can stand to do. You can explain to a person why you are making them sick to make them better, but not a dog.</div>
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<div>The least mentioned and maybe the most important part of treating a dog with cancer of any kind, is how deep your pockets are. Nobody wants to look at that, but let me tell you now, it isn't cheap. John and I are both retired. This means our abilty to treat a major disease may be limited.</div>
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<div>The older I get the more convinced I am that quality time with your dog is worth any amount of money and that sometimes, it is the best choice. NOT ALWAYS.</div>
<div>The younger the dog the better the chances of a cure. At least with Lymphoma. Listen to your Vet, and then, Listen to your heart.</div>
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<div>MomPerson to Warf(ATB lymphoma) Walker (ATB Lymphoma at age 3) Zelda (ATB Multilobular Osteosarcoma of the skull) Quiller ( ATB Chondrosarcoma) Mitchell (ATB)</div>
<div>Nigel, Llewis, Conley and Cooper (Osteosarcoma.) (Not, decidedly not ATB)</div></font></font>