Wishing my dog-son is ok....

Prayers go out to you and your family (I like that dog-son!)

My first 2 dogs were Boxers; Murphy & Ricochet. Boxers are great dogs! Gentle, Loyal, Obedient, etc.. All the good qualities dogs should have.

I sure hope Fugger gets better soon Beech. I've always considered my pets as members of the family proper so I fully understand and can certainly empathize with your situation. Will be sending positive thoughts and prayers up for Fugger...and you too Beech.

Oh yea...one other thing. My Boxers used to get strange little benign growths on them all the time and they never caused any problems. I'm hoping that Fuggers' is the same...

I guess you haven't heard the results from the tests yet... Man it's gotta be tough waiting on that call. At least he's eating something. Keeping fingers crossed for ya Beech...Hang in there!

Thanks a bunch. The more I read up on it, the worse it sounds. I think the net is good and bad when searching for info. I got two sites off of boxerworld.com, and the one: www.wearethecure.net/lymphoma.htm doesn't make it sound like he has much of a chance. The vet said to call on tomorrow so inbetween getting certified for scuba I'm probably going to hear some pretty depressing news. I know I have to stay positive though, but he said (vet) that more than one section of nodes are enlarged and that usually isn't a good thing. Thanks for the prayers...it is comforting coming here and reading that others are thinking of my baby!

I'm wondering too and also how'd you do on your scuba test?

Thanks all for the well wishes. Fugger is still the same and we should hear back from the vet tomorrow. They did say to call on Saturday and they may or may not have the results, but I was doing my certification for scuba (I passed!! yeah!!) and I thought if I would find out half way thru my tests that I would never complete them. Fugger ate some more food today since we cut up a whole hotdog real tiny so he got about a cup of food in him. I told my hubby if the news is bad tomorrow that he eats steak for the rest of his days! I know he would eat that! His glands feel bigger in his throat and I don't know if that is the antibiotics or not. I'm just wondering...the one website I went to said that once they have lymphoma that they have 3 or 4 weeks. I don't know what that exactly means since I think he's had this for a while. He still chased a bunny today like his old self, but I can tell it wore him out.
Thank you all for your thoughts for Fugger. Like I said and I'm sure all with pets feel this way, they are family and he is like a son and I couldn't imagine how it's going to be around here. Thank you so much for thinking about us!! Thanks for the Karma LCARS!! I hope that stuff works!!

Was thinking about Fugger this morning while getting ready for work and remembering my Boxers. Murphy - my first Boxer - used to knock us kids down and take our shoes off, then he would play keep away. He loved to give you a lick right on the face when you least expected it...he had a tongue like a road map! He was a great dog! ....and still lives on in my memories.

Still praying for Fugger. Hope he gets better soon!

Just got the bad news... Fugger has cancer and needs to get evaluated for how far it's spread. I checked out a website that lists good dogfood by stars... www.dogfoodanalysis.com
and bought him a good brand (Chicken soup for the dog lovers soul (5 star)). He's been on Eukanuba his whole life and it doesn't rate that high...I wish I would have known!! I brought it home and he ate 2 cups of it. More than he's had in over a week!! So I'm being refered to an oncologist here in Pittsburgh and I hope that they have something...anything positive to say about our baby. Right now I just want to go sit with him. Thank you all for keeping him and us in your thoughts and prayers!

Beech, just a couple of thoughts on your pal---I am so sorry that this has happened to you and your much loved companion! I've raised Weims for almost 25 years, and the Good Ones always leave us too soon, don't they?
Dog food--the site you mentioned, did you happen to see a person's or company's name attached with it? I didn't, and that made me suspicious. But they did mention some of the better foods out there, but you know, at this point, I'd give Fugger any kind of food he wanted. Even if it was Oreos and Fritos!
I have this thought too--dogs cannot understand that today they are very sick, but after they go thru hell to try to get better, life may or may not be good for them again. I always go by what I see as the quallity of the dog's days, does he still have joy at the usual things? Does his tail wag? Does he sleep a lot and seem depressed and sick? Once the pain is there and the quality of life is gone, I always figure that I owe a faithful companion the right decision, even tho it is the hardest one to make. I'll be honest too in admiting that I am guilty of keeping a dog 'too long' and to this day feel i still fell so bad about that. So go with your gut feeling, your stomach will tell you what to do before your heart takes action.
I chose not to do the cancer treatments for my Chase, to me it would have just been torture to him as he would never understand that someday he MIGHT feel better. Not GOOD, but better--and for how long? I felt that he deserved better than this. I fed him extra good things to eat when he could eat, and he slept on a super soft bed. I about petted the fur right off that guy, and when none of this was magic anymore, I did the humane thing for him. I owed him that much.
Again, I am so sorry for the bad news you have gotten.
Nona