A dog was admitted today with a huge tumor visible on the left side. The owners requested that the vet attempted to remove this mass.
When the dog was under anaesthetic the vet made the incision, and found that the tumor was not attached to the spleen. Instead it was attached to a kidney lobe. Unfortunately this meant that nothing found be done. If the tumour had been on the spleen, the spleen could have been removed and animals do very well without their spleen. However with the tumour attached to the kidney and with the dogs age, the decision was made to put the dog to sleep. This was done with a overdose of Pentoject or Pentobarbitone Sodium. This was administered through a catheter in the dogs leg. the drug acts immediately.