We are looking to get a golden puppy. We would like a reputable breeder and preferably one that doesn’t have a ton of litters at a time. We are in MA, does anyone have any recs within the area? We’ve done some research and it seems like many breeders have positive and negative reviews and we’re trying to figure out how to draw the line with picking one.
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? 😭
We’ve not had a great summer here so it nice to get out when it’s sunny.
Zeus is 18 weeks (4 months) old. This is the bed I bought him when I brought him home. He really doesn't even sleep in it much. Most of the night he prefers to sleep on the hard plastic on the other side of the crate and use the edge of this bed as a pillow. This bed takes up about half of his crate. It is a donut bed so it only has an actual sleeping surface of maybe 10 inches. Now that it is starting to get cooler he might like a bed to curl up on. He just liked the hard plastic during the summer. When he first goes to bed, which is when I took this photo, he lays on his bed for a second and then moves over and scratches the plastic for about 5-20 seconds and then lays down and sleeps on the plastic for 80% of the night.
My question is, should I get a huge bed that covers the entire 48x30 inch bottom, or maybe just something that goes to 40 inches or so to give him room to scratch the floor. I am worried he will be ticked off someone covered his scratching area.