I lost my service dog Liame to Hemangiosarcoma in both of his kidneys at 8 years old. Thankfully I had a dream from God that one of my dogs was peeing blood and that was literally the only way I found out that he was actually bleeding. That morning I woke up and watched all my dogs pee and saw that he was peeing blood. Seriously, if it wasn’t for that dream he would’ve just bled out without me really knowing anything. If I would’ve known what I know now I would have immediately put him on a ketogenic diet, looked into Bartonella which is a known pathogen inside of Hemangiosarcoma tumors And fed him adaptogenic mushrooms. Because I didn’t know anything about this and the information about hemangiosarcoma being related to Bartonella was not available at the time, he was put on a Chinese medicine called Yunnan Baiyao which helps stop the bleeding for a couple of days. I treasured every single one of those 2 extra weeks I got with him. Unfortunately with him there was no way to remove the cancer because it was in both of his kidneys. I understand what you’re going through and I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this.
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Thank you so much for your kind, caring replies Victoria and Mary. Looking at clinical, scholarly information about haemangiosarcoma is sobering. I’ll do what I can for my girl but I have to prepare myself for the worst, especially because her tumour ruptured and spewed cancer cells throughout her abdomen. The most common cause of death is another massive bleed from the cancer that grows as a result of the tumour rupture.
I’ve come across turkey tail mushrooms in my reading. Trying to source some at the moment. Shiitake look like they might be helpful too.
Grace is doing okay, very tired and quiet tho. Maybe because she’s still recovering from such a big surgery, the anaesthesia and the blood loss. I’m really glad I have Lulu, my 7 1/2 month old rottie pup. That’s going to help a lot when Grace dies.
Fraternal cyberhugs to you, @MeganNZ. These are difficult and painful times.
I hope Grace is comfortable. Such surgery is so traumatic.
Thanks Corals. She’s picked up the past few days, a lot more energy, starting to play again with Lulu. I have so much fun watching them.
That’s good to read! Hopefully it comforts you somewhat too, it must be super stressful for you 
Yeah, not true comfort but still… She had good times and still have fun and you will be with her to the end. It’s great, most beings in this planet don’t have that.
Thanks Shinita, it does comfort me.
Yea, how sad is that?! Lots of humans die alone and lonely.
Animals too. I feel sorry for people, sure but the fate of unfortunate, often very innocent and clueless animals can break my heart…
I wonder if anyone on here lives near the Pet Sanctuary and go take a short ride? I forget where it is.
As for using dogs as test subjects, that is very common even if it is not well advertised. There is someone named Matt Kaeberlen who is involved with a longevity project using pets as subjects