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Pet Cancer Warning Signs
Adapted from New Choices in Natural Healing for Dogs and Cats, by Amy D. Shojai and the editors of Prevention Pets (Rodale Press, 1999).
Pets are susceptible to the same types of cancer that people get. Cancer can strike at any age, but it is usually a disease of middle-aged and older dogs and cats. And it is all too common: Cancer causes almost half the deaths of pets older than 10 years.
Here is a checklist of possible warning signs of some pet cancers:
If your pet exhibits any of these signs, call your vet.
1. Your pet has a lump or sore that won’t go away.
2. Your pet is eating but losing weight.
3. It is hard for your pet to chew or swallow.
4. There is a discharge or bleeding from any body opening.
5. Your pet has a bad smell.
6. Your pet tires easily and doesn’t want to exercise.
7. Your pet has quit eating for more than a day or two.
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I just lost my 6 year old Saint mix, Daisy, to cancer. The scary thing is she had NO warning signs. Looking back, the only sign was she was slowing down a bit. We still hiked the hills daily. She was a bit overweight and had knee surgery when she was younger, so I thought those were the reasons. We were out on a daily hike and I thought she might have overdone it playing with my 2 other dogs, she had to lay down and take a break. This was my first sign, on Tuesday. So we took it easy for the next 2 days. Then she stopped eating and throwing up. I took her to the vet, on Friday. He said she had a stomach virus, no problem. She stopped eating, had bloody, tarry stool, she was having week wobbly spells where she could not stand and would fall down. She was having trouble breathing, she was snoring, her belly was extended. I took her to the emergency vet on Sunday, and I left without her. She was riddled with cancer. She was dying there in the vets office. She was a different dog that day, just not there anymore. I am still in complete shock. She just had blood workup and had been to the vet twice since then, nothing. I am a pretty anal pet person, I notice everything and can be a pest at the vet, and I missed this. The only time in the whole 6 years with her that I heard her whine is when she spotted a deer. She held in that horrific, body eating disease until it took her away within 6 days.
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Few experiences in life are more heart-rending than seeing an animal you love waste away from illness...this really hits home. Thanks for posting.
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please check your pets abdomen every day for any signs of hardness.My dog was 9 yrs.old and one night she started to whimper and I checked her all over and found one side of her abdomen was hard.it was cancer.it had pushed her intestines to one side so she always looked symetrical.then it was in her one lung.the vet said she was terminal so we said our goodbyes to her and today I still miss her even though we have another dog.I check my chihuahua and my cat every day prayiny the same thing doesnt hapen to them.
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After a tumour was found and removed from my cat Hamish's leg, a chest xray showed a lesion on his lung. Immediately I put him on a homemade no-carb food, and started him on homeopathic treatment under the care of my homeopathic vet - chinese herbs, homotoxicology liquid and acupuncture, with xrays periodically to monitor the lung lesion. Within a month of starting treatment, his lungs had cleared, going from extremely cloudy to crystal clear. After approximately five months of treatment, the latest xray showed the lung lesion to be gone.
The idea of homeopathic treatment wasn't to cure him but rather to slow the progression of the cancer and give him a good quality of life for whatever time he had left. I know that he is not cured but he certainly does seem to be in remission.
I highly recommend homeopathic treatment for pets with cancer. Getting treatment for Hamish was one of the best things I've ever done in my life.
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Jodie, thank you so much for your kindness, LOL, Leigh,Sam and Charlie
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My 16-yr cat Charlie was operated on for breast cancer a year ago, and at 17 she is still going strong! Praise God he didn't take her yet because he knows I still need her in my life. AMEN!
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I know that soft lumps just below the skin are usually sebum buildup (like fatty deposits). Isn't there a "general rule of thumb" about lumps being cancerous or benign? ex. squishy VS hard or movable VS unmovable
If anyone knows, please send me a message.
Thank you!
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I can only hope none of my cats can have cancer *sob* - I love them a lot.
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I'm so very sorry to hear your news Janet. My heart & prayers are with you & yours.
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