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Image 1 — 3.5 Year old golden retriever mouth tumor, malignant, advice and guidance needed 😭
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3.5 Year old golden retriever mouth tumor, malignant, advice and guidance needed 😭

I write this as I’m balling my eyes out. Our golden, Pinot Grigio (Pinot) is the healthiest 3.5 year old male golden you’d ever meet. Even today, he won’t stop playing frisbee, he’s eating, drinking and behaving completely normal. You would NEVER suspect something was wrong. He’s our whole world - we do everything with him. He is our fly fishing buddy, our hiking buddy, our rafting life guard, our camping snuggle buddy, our literal bestfriend and our baby.

A week ago we were camping and he yawned and we noticed this growth looking thing on the roof of his mouth, near his left molar, to the inside of it. It was probably about 3/4 of an inch big. The next day we took him to the vet. He went under anesthesia, and they removed as much as they could. The vet basically went up to the bone he said, leaving a decent size hole in the roof of his mouth :(

Pinot returns home, a little loopy day 1, but day 2 and on acting completely normal and fine again, playing, eating, drinking and being his goofy self.

It’s been a week, and we get a call today that the biopsy reported back “malignant” and had “spindle cell malignancy”? The vet said this could possible be “fibrosarcoma” “spindle cell sarcoma” and he hopes it is not the last one “malignant melanoma”. The vet is not sure that he got it all. We have an oncologist appointment in 2 days.

I’m heart broken though. I can’t imagine losing Pinot, especially right now. 😭 he has helped me heal through so much including losing my dad and my frost golden at a year and a half of age, tragically. I’m beside myself and feel like life feels so unfair right now.

Has anyone experienced this or have any insight for us? Is there hope for our boy? 😭

u/ctck-1420 — 9 days ago
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GSP Mix

Adopted this guy last month, and he is putting us through the ringer! Per the shelter he is a GSP mix, 7 years old and he was described as laid back and low energy... Ha! Turns out he is still so energetic he can clear a 4.5 foot fence, will try to hunt critters outside like it's going out of style, and everyone questions if he's really 7! Incredibly smart, very loving with our children but unfortunately far too interested in our cats.... Lots of work to be done there. Does he really seem like a GSP cross?

u/LabChick829 — 10 days ago
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Anyone else had a GSD who just... never wags it's tail at people?

Mine is an 18-month-old female and I mean never, with no exaggeration. She'll wag if you're holding a ball or food, but she has never wagged in response to someone greeting her, being excited to see someone, getting pats etc. Not even with people she knows well.

The strange thing is that she clearly is attached to us. She's particularly clingy with my wife and will follow her around and whine for her. She'll sit with us sometimes, and if we're somewhere unfamiliar and she gets bored she'll even climb up into our laps to be held.

But still, no tail wagging.

She's also completely uninterested in strangers. When we're out walking she won't approach people or strange dogs and generally just ignores them. She's not timid though, quite the opposite. She's generally fearless and very confident. Birds are her her #1 priority.

She's a great dog and I'm not worried about her. I'm just fascinated by it because I've had dogs before and I've genuinely never encountered one like this. She seems to have decided that wagging at humans is simply not part of her job description.

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u/EuphoricGarden81 — 8 days ago
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Can you see the GSP resemblance?

GSP x German shepherd (+other things). We got her as a rescue and she is one of the sweetest dogs ever. Absolutely adores human attention, kicks up a loud vocal tantrum when we leave or come home, devours anything remotely edible within reach, and loves to tease her elderly brother. On the other hand, the only thing she points at is the treats cabinet.

u/Honest_Eggplant3998 — 10 days ago
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Exercise while on heat

Hey all, my nearly 1 year old GSP has just started her first heat. It’s my first time having a female dog as an adult so it’s completely new to me. My main concern is her still being able to be adequately exercised while on heat.

I’ve done some reading online and the general idea of what I’ve seen is no taking her into public because of the risk of aggression for other dogs, and also no leaving her unattended in our backyard in case an in tact dog manages to get in and get to her. So with that all in mind, how am I possibly going to give her enough exercise to fill her needs? She normally gets lots of exercise on a daily basis and it feels like that’s almost going to need to drop to zero. She will be getting spayed as soon as she’s stopped growing.

What did you all do?

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u/Typical_Hearing3390 — 9 days ago