| I’ll never forget my first personal experience with cancer. I had brought my dog, Puma, into the vet for x-rays because he had been limping for a couple of weeks. I had expected to hear that he had either torn the ligaments in his knee yet again or perhaps it was arthritis. The vet called that afternoon to say was almost certain he had cancer in his leg. My first reaction was, no big deal, just surgically remove the tumor and we’ll get on with it. After all, he was only five years old, he could’t possibly have a life threatening disease, right? The vet brought me back to reality, “I don’t think he’ s going to make it”. Suddenly, the world seemed to stop. That was 14 years ago. Between then and now, I’ve had two other dogs who were also diagnosed with osteosarcoma. I can tell you from experience, it doesn’t get any easier to hear the “C” word time and time again. I started to think I was jinxed – three dogs in a row all diagnosed with the same type of cancer. Who could image the odds of that happening? When my second dog, Beanny, was diagnosed and given about a year to live, I began to read every book, every medical journal, every Internet site, every clinical trial I could find. I explored conventional therapies and alternative & holistic treatments. Nothing was too outlandish for me to think about and believe me, there are some crazy sounding cancer ‘cures’ out there. Beanny became my personal guinea pig – I wanted desperately to cure him, or at least give him longer to live than Puma had (he died 6 months after diagnosis). And so our journey began. To read our story click here. |
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| As we publish our initial version of this site in late February, 2007, we hope to become truly a one-stop place to obtain or be linked to the information you need. We will be constantly updating and adding to the site so check back often. Please contact us with any suggestions – we’d appreciate your feedback for how to make this site more useful. Click here to give feedback. If you are visiting this site because your dog has cancer, I’m truly sorry and understand the difficult time you are going through. I hope this site will help you by providing the tools you need to choose the right path for you and your dog. The path is not always clear and you may be confronted with choices to which the right answer will not be known. This is but one of the heart wrenching realities of cancer. My advice is to get a caring veterinarian(s) that is knowledgeable about cancer and the various current treatments available, get second or third opinions, be open to clinical trials and alternative therapies, and learn to trust your own instincts. God Bless. |


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