Hi there,

My 13 yr old husky was just diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma, it's on her front "wrist" and can't be removed with  clear margins and only option is to amputate. We did the bloodwork and xrays, nothing was found to have spread with the xrays,  but her blood work was found to be on the borderline of beginning stage kidney disease and she is anemic, because of the cancer. Our vet because of those reasons is highly advising us against amputating and just keep her comfortable and gave her 3-8 mths, she had said that with the anemia, it could speed up the process.of loosing her and she might not recover well. Before the cancer, she was a very energetic, happy go lucky dog, she hikes, swims, climbs, plays and goes camping with us. She has slowed down a little bit, I'm figuring because of the pain or issues from the cancer. We are still leaning towards amputation, we're not looking to have her live 100 more yrs, but we want her to be happy and comfortable and live the rest of her life on her terms. She has always been adaptable to change. I'm just torn, I don't want to amputate and have her deteriorate faster and lose her, but I don't want to do nothing and lose her happy personality till the cancer eventually takes her. Has anyone had a similar situation with a senior dog being anemic and still recovering well?