Hi Everyone, I'm new here because my concerns are NOT about having a three legged dog, however my concerns are more about her cancer. Nattie is a 5-6 year old pit bull terrier mix. She is my doggie soulmate, my baby, literally she's the only dog I've ever had that super strong bond with and I'm saying that as a huge animal lover. 

Nattie had a lump removed from the back of her thigh last Wednesday. It became infected this week, and yesterday I learned that she has Mast Cell II, Grade II cancer, and they did NOT remove all of the tumor because it was so deep in her muscle.

Our vet referred us to an oncologist, and a friend of mine with mast cell surviving mastiffs referred us to her vet who has experience with it and we felt would be more well rounded than the straight oncologist in our area. This new vet is wonderful and we feel very confident and comfortable with him. His recommendation is actually to amputate her leg, because going in for wider margins may still not be a sure thing, and the cancer is pretty far progressed (mitotic scale 7). He spoke with the oncologist in depth about the type of cancer, survival, etc. so I know he's very knowledgable with her case.

We are leaning towards the amputation to give our baby the best chance of survival. However, he will have to probably go all the way into the hip because the tumor was pretty high on her thigh. So, the possibility of hurting the sciatic nerve is always a chance we would risk. He said some people do chemo before, some do chemo after, some don't do it at all with the amputation. He also put us on the regiment of pepcid and benedryl to calm down the histamine cells. He did an ultrasound of her abdomen and did not see any spreading.

What would you do? Amputation? Amputation and Chemo? Thoughts? 

Thank you!
Laura