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My rottie was a year and 4 months last week. He was suffering from a Spinal Tumor, that the first vet we went to thought was a pulled muscle, the second vet thought it was a pinched nerve, then finally we were not seeing any results. We went to the University of Minnesota St.Paul campus to the small animal hospital. There they said they were almost sure it was an infection, and the predisone the second vet gave us, made it worse. Knowing this we left him for the night only to get a call in the morning that the x-rays came back with no sign of an infection. And that an MRI, or CT scan was needed to move forward, we then got a phone call with terrible news. Our puppy had a spinal tumor. The vet said they could not remove it, and it would grow back. Then we had to make a decision to either put him down or go with surgery for him to only come out with pain and to have only a short life of 6-9 months. Which is unfair. I didn't want to lose him, and didn't want him to be in pain. We are not selfish people, so we put him to sleep. I wish that we would have brought him in first to this place, and not 3rd. His tumor was cancer, so be careful. Our baby showed signs like when we pet him, his back end would go down. Then it got so bad to were his back legs were extremly weak and could barely stand. Then the night before we brought him to the third vet, he was so weak, he yiped and made very sad faces. Apparently there was nothing the vet coul ddo for us, hopefully you caught this very, very soon. I hope and pray for you. We will be getting our results from the vet in the next few weeks. I would like to know how your visits go and how your baby is doing. I'm sorry, and I hope that it gets better and stops growing. When we put our baby on steriods, he lost muscle mass but always ate. So make sure that isn't happening with yours. Keep us posted. I'm very interested.
I hope this helps, at least a little.
Best of luck!