I'm so sorry there is a mass. I hope his surgery is successful and you will have a healthy Peter Parker back home with you for a long time yet. We have a member here, SHODANUSMC, who may be able to offer you some advice on care. He had a dog, not a yorkie, that had cancer as well and is about the same age. Sending my thoughts and special yorkie prayers for yor little guy.

Hurdle one has been jumped. Made it thru the surgery. The mass was able to be removed, along with some healthy intestine on either side. There were no other areas that were affected just the one section of his intenstines. He's home and resting although not sure how comfortably. He's pee'd and pooped and eaten so those are all good things. Now we need to heal, hold our own protein, and pass our biopsy. Hope that whatever it is, that removing it is considered curative.

Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers, keep em up, they seem to be working.
OH and he needs to gain weight too!

I am keeping Peter Parker in my prayers. These little guys seem to heal quickly so hopefully he will feel better soon.

...so sorry to hear about your baby, hopefully he's on the road to full recovery now, we'll be praying hard for you .

Glad to hear hurdle #1 is through! We will keep praying for his biopsy and his full recovery from this.

I'm sending good thoughts and prayers for Peter Parker. I hope everything else checks out well and he continues to eat well and gain weight.:)

Happy to hear Peter is over hurdle one. Sending prayers for his continued improvement and hoping he puts some weight on. Best wishes.

So far so good. He gained sumwhat under a pound since the surgery, from a Fri to a Wed. He was eating awesome, of course this could be b/c it was wet food and normally all he gets is dry. He is healing well. His stiches come out next Wed. He doesn't have lympofantasia or IBD. His protein numbers are up and he is holding them all by himself. The biopsy of the mass was REALLY pretty ugly. The upshot of the pathologists report, he/she said that while it was pretty ugly, it seemed to be contained to that one area and hadn't showed signs of spreading past that area of the intestine. It doesn't matter how ugly or how benign it may be, it still had to get the hell out or it would have killed him. His anemia has turned around and he feels better I can tell that more like himself.
We were referred to the oncologist so that he can look every thing over and help us to decide on where we need to go from here. The cancer thing is scary. Please keep up prayers and good thoughts they are working and we do still need them.

Glad to hear Peter is home and eating well. Also very glad it was contained to one area! We will keep little Peter in our prayers as he is going to the oncologist. SHODANUSMC, as mentioned above, just went through cancer w one of his dogs.

Wish he'd chime in!

Hi. I was just informed of this thread. I read thru it, and glad the little dog made it thru the surgery. THat is 1/2 the battle. I have an 11 year old Cane Corso that had 18" of intestine removed and the diagnoses was Mast Cell. The Oncologist vet put him on Prednisone and 8 chemo sessions with Vinblastin over a 12 week period. He was cancer free for only 2 months after the Chemo, and the Ultrasound showed that was starting in his Liver, based on the biopsy. Vet asked if we wanted to do the RESCUE ATTEMPT....well, Carlo was in great shape, so heck yes. He got 1 CEENU pill every 3 weeks for a total of 3 pills, and then went on one CEENU pill every 6 weeks. He will be on that for as long as he is around. After the 3 pills, he was again cancer free, and has been that way for 6 months now. It has been over a year since his surgery. Dogs tolerate Chemo very well, but there are naturally some side effects. Carlo may be one of the olders Corso's in the Country, goes for 1-2 mile walks a day, has a great disposition, and lets the little Yorkies boss him around.

You can PM me for any additional information. I am no expert, but it was a team effort. Carlo, the Specialist, and Carlo's family. We all wish you and your dog the best.

They really didn't make a diagnosis of what type of cancer it was from the biopsy just that is was very bad and very ugly. The person who did the report did say that it was encouraging that it appeared not to have spread beyond that area of the intestine but that there of course is always that possibility. My vet checked surrounding organs and said that they all appeared to be in good shape and the blood work we had ran before showed nothing out of the ordinary or malfunctioning for other organs. Just the protein loss and the anemia. The anemia was from the worms and has corrected itself now and same with protein loss. The tumor take out solved that too. All those things help me keep positive thoughts. My vets path would of been to monitor and watch every 6 months or so. I'm not sure what path the oncologist will suggest or what I will do. I hope that it is monitor, watch, and be aware. Cancer is so unpredictable. Even statistics dont' help. Hell we could go years w/o ever seeing it again (which is my hope) and lose him to something different or it could come back sumwhere else tomorrow! You just never know and there is nothing that can help predict that. I keep hoping and praying for the best and am encouraged by the fact that he seems to feel pretty well and is eating, gaining weight again, etc....