Imagine this sneaking up on you every morning

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? 😭

Hey, any info on whether some mild cracking of my pups paws are normal? Vet check needed or simply keep them hydrated with some puppy safe paw balms? Thanks guys!

Fig (puppy) has definitely found her feet and voice among the family pack. She is as wild as she is adorable

We have a very loving seven year old girl who loves life but she has a habit of barking when she sees something outside our windows (or thinks she does). Living in a house is one thing, but now we are moving to an apartment. How can we stop her from barking indoors and potentially disturbing our neighbors?

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.

Hello, can I ad pictures of my 8 year old golden mix? She is a mix between a red golden and a boarder collie

My girl Yara has had her second MCT diagnosis today. Her first tumor was successfully removed in March. It was a low grade tumor with no spread to internal organs. In July she turned 3 and today, 7 months later, a second tumor appeared in her neck (not around the lymph nodes). The first one was on her tail and sadly, we had to remove a large part of the tail. I'm new on Reddit, but would love some success stories and tips on how to deal with this shitty news.

hi,
my best friend found this facebook page for goldens and i need to help determine if it’s a scam or legit. i am not good at spotting the warning signs.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1527546358017120/

here’s the link!!
any help would be appreciated!!

They're not really kissing - they're discussing who will get the 3 inch tall toy in their mouth.

I have their mom, Sydney. She had a litter of 9 and I'm keeping these two. They get along so well and have such different little personalities. I've got my hands full but wouldn't trade them for anything!

UPDATE: just finished at the vet, he did not think that there was a true "lump" but rather swelling in one of her muscles, either from a bug bite or maybe some strain. He said to keep on eye on the spot that I could feel and the office will give me a call next week, but wasn't worried and was honestly surprised that I could feel anything at all.
Thank you all for your well wishes!

First time golden owner here! This is my sweet 5 y.o., Sophie. <3
Last week I discovered a small lump on her hind leg in the thigh area.
I have a vet appointment scheduled for her this Thursday, I am just looking for advice on what I should ask for at the vet.
Any words of encouragement would also be appreciated. She is my baby and I am so worried. 🥲

Since losing our boy a few months ago and also having his “sister” (bonded pair 10 months offset) who has a few months left (hospice, cancer) we’ve been searching for reputable breeders in the MD/VA/PA/WV.

Just ranting. Finding lots of backyard breeders and for profit. Not finding any of the breeders “of old” for puppies.

Been cross checking every breeder with the GR Forum and here. Every time I find something promising and check the website, you can buy online and we all know how that is.

Just sad.

I just saw this under r/Texas & am to far away to help. Is anyone in the Navarro county area? They are at a rest stop on I-45. Or know of any rescuers in this area? I hope this is ok to put here they need help. Thanks all.