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  1. okslater
    I'm so sorry. We had a similar rapid decline with a different type of cancer in our 8 year old. It really knocked us for six. Nearly a year on we still miss her terribly. It really is the pits. You'll get through it and we all feel for you.
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    Fantastic!
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    What a beautiful boy. It's great you managed to get such a nice last day with him, we didn't have such luck and it will make me be more conservative with the end in future. Definitely a day too early than a day too late. Ten months on and our hearts still ache, but such is the love and loss of a hound! Take care of yourselves.
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    Actually scrap that, I just looked at my notes and it was gabapentin she had three capsules of, not amantadine. She just had one 100mg capsule of that per day.
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    We had amantadine in Lemming's treatment plan after her ops and she tolerated it well. I think she was a bit sleepy at first but soon got used to it. She was on 300mg per day (and was only a 24 kg dog).
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    great news! Badger has an intermittent limp but it varies from leg to leg so the vet thinks arthritis also. He's only 5, but was retired due to injury, and has always seemed very stiff, so he's on supplements.
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    How far do you run? I have two regular greys and they run with me, but we only do about 5-8k, and there is a lot of stopping to pee and sniff. My partner also runs but he refuses to run with the dogs as he finds all the stopping annoying. I don't mind it, except when Badger stops abruptly and pees on my leg as I can't stop in time. That's great fun! I prefer to run with one dog. Our last greyhound would creep off to bed if I got my running kit on so I only ran with Badger, but since she died our new dog has major FOMO so wants to come too. It does mean a tangle of leads and tripping over if I'm not careful.
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    Maeby chews all the wood in our log pile then takes it upstairs to our bed. We then spend all day taking logs of wood back to the living room, and brushing sawdust out of our bed. She's only 18 months old so I'm hoping she grows out of it as she is really resistant to the word 'no'. She has also got an obsession with the cat blankets and keeps trying to pull them out from under the cats while they're asleep on them, much to their disgust. Also wont listen to 'no' on that one. Luckily she's super cute.
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    Maeby is like this, whereas Badger is full steam ahead. I've found the only way to take them both out single handedly is to run with them, as then they go about the same pace. Otherwise I'm arms akimbo with one pulling in front and one dragging behind.
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    Yes to all of the above. Don't force her, greyhounds have long memories! We had a super anxious first hound, and her permanent cure was to adopt a braver brother. However, taking it slowly and driving her to trails she liked worked for the three years before we did that.
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    Yeah we are rural, so he usually walks on trails or grass. There is some pavement walking to get to that, and he is noticeably more reluctant to walk on those surfaces, which is why I've been keeping an eye on his paws. I bought him some hunnyboots but he will not let us put them on, he's always been very sensitive in the paw area. The only way we can trim is nails is by feeding him chips/fries! He's not into toys but he is definitely into food games! Unfortunately his sister has a much better nose than him, so she tends to muscle in and find the hidden treats and the fallen Kong nuggets before he does. But I guess fending her off is a game in itself.
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    Thanks @greysmom, he is very active. He always wants at least 2 x 45 minute walks a day, and preferably a run most days too, as well as a couple of shorter walks. When we first got him he just wanted to be out all day, and he's done several 10 mile mountain runs with us too. If he didn't get all this he would just spin round and round our living room until we took him out. We joked that he was like a real dog, not a greyhound. When we took him out for a walk at the kennels when we were choosing him, he looked so sad when we took him back to the kennels. We thought he liked us but realised after he just really likes walking! I've been keeping an eye on his paws for months for corns, and the vets have checked several times, but there's nothing there so far. Our vet has mentioned galliprant in the past for Lemming, so that's good to know there's another option.
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    Good news! The lab results came back and it was benign. It's an angiokeratoma. Vet said it could be related to early stage arthritis, and we've been issued supplements - Synoquin (composition attached). He does do a lot of intermittent limping and doesn't seem as happy on his feet these days (he's a very active 5yo dog), so that would make sense. He was raced and retired through injury, and has always seemed a bit stiffer compared to our unraced female greys. I feel bad for him as his favourite thing is running. What measures should I take to minimise the impact of arthritis on him to postpone him needing painkillers for as many years as possible? He has a terrible response to Metacam, he gets really bloody diarrhoea within a day of taking it, so that will never be on the cards.
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    He's booked in next Tuesday to have it removed
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    Great, thanks. We're going away this weekend so I will see about getting him an appointment for removal and analysis next week. Hopefully nothing to worry about, but after the year we just had with Lemming, it will be a while before I go to the vets feeling 100% confident in a good outcome.
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    Yeah I was already worried about it and have shown it to my vets twice when he's been in recently, but they say it's probably nothing to worry about and continue to monitor it. I was hoping they'd take a sample to look at in the lab when he was anaesthetised for his dental last month. It's time to get more insistent, I think. I was hoping someone would say 'oh yeah that's a callus and all my greys had them' but it seems my reaction of needing further exploration is correct. I'll update when I know more. Thanks for the help!
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    Badger, 5yo, has a growth on his elbow. It feels hard, like a wart. The vets had a look at it a couple of months ago and they said to just keep an eye on it. It's definitely getting larger. Has anyone else had similar on their grey? I'm wondering how soon to push to have this investigated further. Thanks!
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    I'm so sad to read this. Thinking of you all and beautiful Amy.
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    He's a beauty, congrats! We have a Badger, as we thought his face looked like a Badger, but then we adopted another black and white one and she looks even more like a Badger so it's all very confusing. Looks like he's settling in well, and I can't believe he's so cat safe already. We are three months in and still have baby gates everywhere and have to watch Maeby like a hawk!
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    My previous grey, Lemming, would growl and misbehave around other greys, but it was because she was into them too much. She was also a biter, and would excitedly go for their necks when playing. She never learnt to play nice, so we had to muzzle her whenever she was off lead, after a few trips to the vet for our other grey, Badger. I noticed neck nipping is a common thing with greys, but she didn't get the memo that you're not supposed to break the skin. She was obsessed with other greys, though, and what we interpreted early on in our inexperience as aggression, was actually play. She was much happier when we adopted our second grey, as then we realised she'd wanted a companion all along.
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    Yeah I wouldn't worry about diet. We just fed Lemming her usual food with extra treats. Food was such a pleasure for her, and she had good guts on her usual food, so I didn't want to mess around with faddy diets. I've been to quite a few (human) oncology appointments with friends and family and the advice is always to just eat as much as you can stomach, as cancer is so highly metabolic and it churns through calories.
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    I'm sorry Lauren. Such a dark day getting this news. I'm really glad you're insured. We let ours lapse and a couple of months later got the diagnosis. Lemming died in January and we're still paying our £25k (30k USD) bill. You kinda hope your dog lives longer than it takes you to pay for the medical care, but hey ho. I really hope you manage to get a good amount of quality time with her. Every extra day we had with Lemming when she was feeling herself were like a gift from the heavens, and she seemed to love life even more than before (maybe all the chicken helped). Good luck with the next steps.
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    All three of mine had never been in a house before. The two girls figured everything out very quickly, our boy was an idiot and barked at his reflection for months, didn't like the stairs, and pee'd over everything (our house was covered in plastic for ages so he didn't ruin all the furniture), and we had two emergency visits to the vets as he managed to eat things he shouldn't from a ridiculously tall shelf. Every grey brought home has been a lesson and experience for us. Our latest, Maeby, hides our shoes so we have to hunt high and low to find the matching one, and she will destroy anything leather she finds (I've lost a nice belt, my boyfriend his wallet). She also lied on her cat test, we're too months in and have baby gates everywhere.
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    Where are you based, @mjmcmurray? We are in Manchester but had our girl Lemming referred to the Royal Dick in Edinburgh, as they have a state of the art cancer centre up there. I'd thoroughly recommend a second opinion from them, if you want some reassurance. I think it was about £100-150 for them to go over the data. Our girl Lemming had a lot of treatment there and I would immediately go to them again when/if our next dogs have any cancer diagnoses. They were greyhound savvy - there are a lot of adopted greys in the Edinburgh area and we saw loads going in whilst waiting for ours to come out of her radiotherapy sessions. https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/services/small-animals
  25. okslater
    Such a lovely tribute. She had the best life and such great owners. I'm not gonna lie, the next months are going to be hard. Look after yourselves, and take time to grieve.
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