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MeredithMan · 04-02-2020, 08:03 AM

...you bring up a very relevant point, 4-for-Boating. I don't know if there has been a lot of research into it, but Goldens for some reason are susceptible to a number of cancers, seemingly more so than other breeds.

We had our previous Golden for 13 years, and she developed a Hemangiosarcoma on the heart. These are tumors in the blood vessels and apparently seem to show up either in the heart or spleen. There was nothing that could be done other than enjoy every day of the remaining 3 months we had with her.

One of our current Goldens had an ultrasound of her tummy in January because she had eaten something around the house, (she and her brother have eaten tv remotes, eyeglasses, socks, banana bread, you name it...), and we wanted to make sure nothing was stuck, as had happened last summer. Anyway, the scan showed there was a small "mass" on her spleen. We didn't want to fool around, so we had CAVES in Concord take out the whole spleen, and the biopsy was negative, thankfully, but all we could envision was another tumor like our previous Golden had.

Is it due to puppy mills? The flea and tick poisons we rub all over them? Who-knows-what in the dog food we feed them?

04-02-2020, 08:03 AM	#17
MeredithMan Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Bedford, NH; Meredith, NH Posts: 864 Thanks: 233 Thanked 768 Times in 302 Posts	There is an issue with cancer in Goldens... ...you bring up a very relevant point, 4-for-Boating. I don't know if there has been a lot of research into it, but Goldens for some reason are susceptible to a number of cancers, seemingly more so than other breeds. We had our previous Golden for 13 years, and she developed a Hemangiosarcoma on the heart. These are tumors in the blood vessels and apparently seem to show up either in the heart or spleen. There was nothing that could be done other than enjoy every day of the remaining 3 months we had with her. One of our current Goldens had an ultrasound of her tummy in January because she had eaten something around the house, (she and her brother have eaten tv remotes, eyeglasses, socks, banana bread, you name it...), and we wanted to make sure nothing was stuck, as had happened last summer. Anyway, the scan showed there was a small "mass" on her spleen. We didn't want to fool around, so we had CAVES in Concord take out the whole spleen, and the biopsy was negative, thankfully, but all we could envision was another tumor like our previous Golden had. Is it due to puppy mills? The flea and tick poisons we rub all over them? Who-knows-what in the dog food we feed them?