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The vet charged me 300Bux to remove a tumor from the mammary gland of one of my good dogs. No big deal, but he also said she will likely get another. The dog is only 7 years old. Anyone ever heard of the memory tumor?? The vet was very familiar with it. How many times am I gonna get stuck with spending 300Bux getting another one removed

Mark ~ Several.

Irv, No kidding?? You know abou them???

We had one of our grade females have a tumor in her mammary gland that was slow growing but noticeably growing. The tumor was not floating in the loose skin of her bag (i.e., could not feel completely around it) but was embedded in the meat and I could feel a tail on the tumor. I believe they call these ganglion or ganglious ( many tails or feelers) tumors. We had it removed at the recommendation of the vet even though this dog was not ill in any way.

Result:

By the time the wound healed from her surgery she was already too ill from spreading cancer to hunt her. She developed small tumors all over her body especially in her neck (lymph nodes) and died. She was dead three weeks after the surgery.

I feel that if I would have left it alone it would have continued to grow and would have looked bad but she would have lived a lot longer. She may not have died of old age but I am sure she would have lived a minimum of a year as she was in perfect health at 6 1/2 years of age when she had this tumor removed.

In the future I will never have a tumor that is embedded in the meat removed. I will only have a floating tumor/growth removed if it is affecting them physically, such as in a teat that continues to get injured by brush.

Good luck.

The one thing about the tumor on my dog is that it did not have the "tail" and was not embedded in the flesh. I am not looking forward to having more of them removed, however!!

mpritchard wrote:The vet charged me 300Bux to remove a tumor from the mammary gland of one of my good dogs. No big deal, but he also said she will likely get another. The dog is only 7 years old. Anyone ever heard of the memory tumor?? The vet was very familiar with it. How many times am I gonna get stuck with spending 300Bux getting another one removed

Yep there commen on dogs who hunt a wholelot around crop lands and slues,ditches drains from fields/ the fly on agg pestasides chemicals and it getsin the water and the coon dog gets in that same waters and over a few yrs trime them tummors start cropping up and hang down /looks uggly.
It was told too me by three different vets in Ca. not too cut on one,it only helps spred it faster and shortens the dogs life way more quicker/ thers no way too cut it out completely without spredding it throught the dogs body/ which then starts cropping out on its neck or chest and back on its bellie again.

Sorry bud its just part of it and enjoy the time ya have with that dog 7 yrs old id about right for it too first apear.