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Food Discussion & Information / Any connection between foods and bone cancer?
« on: May 31, 2007, 09:12:52 am »
The thread today about high vs. low protein diets fed to puppies and the impact on their ortho development has reminded me of a question that I've had since we lost Halley, our 3 y/o Pyr, to bone cancer last year. Does anyone know if there is any known connection between osteosarcoma later in life and the amount of protein in the puppy's diet? As you can imagine whenever we have a puppy again, I want avoid anything that could increase those odds. 
Since then we've noticed that the only time she "leaks" is when she's been running and playing with Cassie,who is turbo charged. 
She can take regular walks, etc. but if she runs around (like the playing pic that I posted yesterday) then she will have a puddle under her when she wakes up from her next few naps. Now we're trying to limit her aerobic activity to walks & gentle play with Sammy (due to the "leaks" and arthritis in one elbow), but she wants to play w/Cassie so badly and occasionally sneaks out around the kids to play, then we notice the leaking. We have laminate flooring w/area rugs, so the clean up is usually pretty easy, but we'd love to fix this, though I always worry about side effects with meds. Have any of you noticed problems like this with your dogs? Also, has anyone used Prion and did you notice any problems or side effects? Oh, BTW she is otherwise healthy except for food sensitivities and arthritis so she eats Natural Balance Duck & Potato and I give her a glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM supplement daily. Thanks!
It's great to find such a nice group of dedicated dog lovers! I'm mom to 3 skin kids, 3 canine fur kids and our kitties. We have Daisy, a very sweet spayed 8 y/o Golden Ret./Yellow Lab cross that we've had since puppyhood and we've had 2 Pyrs in the past. Our first Pyr we lost to old age and our second we had to PTS last year due to bone cancer and it just broke our hearts. I found BPO while we were grieving and you've all been a great comfort to me and an inspiration to rescue our latest additions to our family. We recently added two new Pyrs to our family. Since February we've adopted Cassie, a 23 month old spayed female GP that we adopted from an elderly couple that were having health problems and Sammy a 3-5 yr old neutered male GP that came to us from GP Rescue. Cassie had been well loved and cared for and she is a healthy, happy cuddle bug. Sammy was removed from his former "home" by animal control due to severe abuse and neglect. 