lefty's random dog thread. - Page 197

I bolded your excellent rule. No grouse where I am at. Pheasant and Quail in about a month and a half. Ducks and geese in 3 and a half weeks.

Enlighten me, what breed do you mean by FB?

Wrap the breasts in bacon and grill them. Serve them with roasted sweet potatoes or some celery root and copious amounts of wine or beer. They are a little too small to prepare like squab but they have a very rich flavor. I dont find them to be the least bit gamey. In fact they have almost a liver consistency although they are milder in flavor than liver.

got the ultrasound done, most likely lymphoma. i think we're probably going to do a course of chemo.

Had dove pate some years ago at a fancy restaurant, the chef wasn't pleased with my reaction.


Damn.

Sorry to hear that. Nothing worse than a sick dog. Always gets to me in different way.

 

Sorry about that. FB = French Brittany AKA: the epagneul breton. 

 

I spend the first couple of weeks in November in SD pheasant hunting with several other retired military gentleman. It is our official Veteran's day hunt and a great time. If you ever get a chance to hunt phez in SD I would highly recommend it. When that many wild birds take flight at once it can test any dog. And your own ability to NOT flock shoot LOL.

 

Great dove recipe you have there. Seems like all great recipes start with first you unwrap a pound of bacon... No matter how you do it they are better than woodcock!

Sorry to hear it Teger.

yea I'm pretty heartbroken. I guess the only bright side is that lymphoma is very treatable, and she could have as much as 2 years left.

Sorry to hear this, Teger, but as they say, every dog is a heartbreak waiting to happen.

Are you really sure you want to go through with an aggressive program of therapy? It is going to be rough on the dog in all probability, and it's going to cost you a bundle. (The Devii's Arithmetic, I know.) My last bitch, Tessa, was diagnosed with lymphoma. We put her on Prednizone. She thrived for about a month, then began slipping again. It was obvious when she was finished, and I had her put down. In all, from diagnosis to the end, it was about 2 1/2 months.

Yah Teger. You gotta also understand whether your dog would be happy with what you are doing.

yea we're going to probably meet with an oncologist next week once we get confirmation (doing the needle biopsy tonight actually). from what I've read, the chemotherapy regimens can range in cost from about $1,500 to about $6,000, but even the cheaper ones are very effective, and remission rates are 60 - 80% even in Stage IV or V cancers. the chemotherapy drugs, combined with the prednisone (which she'll go on no matter what), apparently give the dog a very high quality of life, and if the dog needs to be put to sleep it becomes very obvious very quickly -- the remission ends and the cancer comes back. if you treat with just prednisone, which will eliminate most of the symptoms, the dog can live for 6 to 8 weeks. it's always a question of cost vs outcome balanced against how the dog is going.

I don't mean to come across as too cynical,Teger, but most, if not all, veterinarians these days are going try to really aggressively up-sell courses of treatment to you. You easily could be out thousands of dollars and still lose your girl in short order.

I've had to decree the deaths of my last three dogs, and in all cases, especially the last two, I would have wanted exactly the same thing done to me in the same circumstances.