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My Labrador started limping has osteo sarcoma cancer
Sadly we took our Chocolate Labrador (8 will be 9 next November) to the vet yesterday for what I thought was a sprain, mild fracture or recurrence of Lyme, only to find out that he has a tumor in his shoulder and has Osteo sarcoma.
For which the course of action would be to amputate his leg and give him radiation and chemotherapy. That could only be done if the cancer has not spread to his lungs. But 90% of dogs diagnosed with Osteo sarcoma have the cancer in their lungs. If amputation,radiology,chemo is a go he might live 12 to 24 months with this treatment. Though half of dogs that have limb amputation, radiation and chemo do not live 12 months. At best they make 24 months, but it is troubled life at best.
Doing nothing he will live a couple of months or so. This cancer is very painful and they gave us medication Ramidyl (novox). My uncle died died of sarcoma.. regardless of the cost I do not think I could have my dog go through that amputation chemo process. So we are just going to make him as comfortable as possible...
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My Labrador started limping has osteo sarcoma cancer
My kids love our Labrador Kobi even more than I thought. It surprises me a bit to see my 19 year old son spend so much time loving him up... my daughter is coming home from college just to be with him.. Kobi has been a part of their lives they grew up together so to speak!
It is frustrating to not be able to do anything for him and I can see how starting treatment seems better than doing nothing. He wasn't too bad yesterday.. he has been out once today which seems to have been too much for him as even though it is gorgeous out he is very tentative on the bad leg and won't come out even if I go out and sit on the porch and wait.
I just gave him his medication and hopefully he will feel better.
I have had 4 dogs over the years:
Kiva Siberian Husky put down at 8 years Osteo broken spine
Koren Yellow Lab put down at 12 terminal abdominal cancer
Koko Chocolate Lab put down at 12 Blind Nervous system break down
Kobi Chocolate Lab now 8
Yes I have this thing for naming dogs with "K" go figure. I read somewhere that dogs respond better to short names no more than two sylables. So far here is how that has worked for me:
Kiva only responded if you had food in your hand.
Koren was from a field trial breeding stock. I trained her to hunt pheasant, she obeyed hand commands at long range, fantastic obedient loving dog. She would do absolutely anything I asked her to do.
Koko was more from the looks side of the dog world. Since my kids were small when we got him they had little influence on him. He could be taken off leash and obeyed my commands. But he had no nose for hunting.
Kobi a smaller chocolate lab about 65 pounds kept him trim. He grew up with my kids loving him up and chasing him around the yard playing. Does not listen to a word I say unless I have food in my hand. Really cannot take him off leash all those years of the kids chasing make bad habits that are hard to break... He is a calm dog classic lab only barks when he should, so quiet in the car my wife has forgotten to let him out on occassion...
Thanks for all of your comments on your 4 legged companions 
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My Labrador started limping has osteo sarcoma cancer
The week before Easter my dogs condition worsened. The tumor was now the size of a half grapefruit. He had trouble getting up could only take a couple of steps before he had to lay down again. In the evenings we had him on the couch, then we would use peanut butter to encourage him to step off the couch and into the crate where my son and I would carry him and the crate outside to do his business.
Add to the that the rapid breathing and whimpering from the pain... we went to the vet on Good Friday. I talked to the vet about whether there was anything we could do to make him more comfortable so he could pass at home. She said that the tumor had grown in only 2 weeks what most dogs experienced in a full year, so the the cancer was very aggressive. Using narcotics would probably make him feel good enough to break the bone causing excruciating pain... no good option. So we put him to sleep Friday.
We buried his ashes in the back yard last Sunday.
It is hard to diagnose illness in patients that cannot talk 
About a year ago we noticed that he would act as if he was shocked and slip as he tried to get traction on the hardwood floors. I now think that he probably had the the beginnings of the bone cancer then and he was reacting the same way he would to the invisible fence shock he was familiar with.
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