Momma's Boy has Mouth Cancer

by Kelli
(Georgia)

My best friend Bo has a large mass on the roof of his mouth. There were few symptoms prior to having the mass noticed and the time period between the first symptom and the first visual of the mass was within a week.

Bo is only 7 1/2; my last dog that had cancer was diagnosed at age 5 1/2 years old. I am not ready to lose another dog to cancer. I know it's been almost 10 years since the last dog, but Bo is my boy, as was the other dog I lost. I am never ready to lose anybody, but a younger dog for me always seems to be harder.

I know he is a large dog at 100 pounds, and their life expectancy is shorter than smaller dogs on the norm, but I don't care, I am devastated...

The biopsy results have not come in yet and will not until the end of the week. I plan on not doing radiation or chemotherapy. I want to do all natural remedies. I want quality of life, not quantity. I want his last days, weeks, months, whatever he has left to be quality time with momma.

As for the information I read mouth and nasal cancers are extremely aggressive if they are indeed malignant; his x-rays also seemed to show that the mass has reached the bony parts of the soft palate, not a good sign in other words.

I am utterly and totally and completely devastated. Has anyone ever had a dog with mouth cancer before? The vet said it is pretty rare, figures since I rescue most of my dogs, it always seems like I get the weird stuff, a byproduct of crappy breeding practices.