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 My Rottweiler 'Lady'
Dealing with Osteosarcoma

Submitted by Chris Holt on May 21, 2004

She was a young pup, only about six months old or so.  Within a few days it was clear she had been mistreated since when ever you raised your hand she would cower.  After a month, she appeared to have gotten over what ever happened with the last family.

We also noticed she was fascinated with reflections and torchlights being shone on the wall and when ever a laser pointer was around she would be paranoid of dots for days.

In late 2003 for a while she had been nibbling and licking her front right paw a lot and sometimes to the point that she could not walk on it properly.  About a month after that we could see that her leg was hurting -- not just her paw.  I found a lump on her upper leg.  We took here to a vet who at first could not find anything wrong; but later x-rays revealed her leg bone to be like cotton candy and we were told that she had osteosarcoma.  The vet told us that Rottweilers do not cope well with a front leg being amputated and that operating on her would not help her much so we brought her home for a couple of days seeing how hard it was for her to walk made us not want to take the chance that her bone would break so we took her to the vet to have her put down.

We miss her very very much but we take comfort in the fact that after being mistreated she spent six loving years with us. We know that she is somewhere chasing a crow or a torchlight.

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