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Feeding / Re: Wet food for yeast and environmental allergies
« Last post by Joules on April 21, 2026, 09:43:59 AM »
Watson is on Arden Grange white fish and potato sensitive - wet and dry food. It has helped his itchiness a lot (he is also a yeasty boy) but not totally erradicated it. Tried lots of different things - apoquel worked, but not good to be on long term. It's so frustrating!  :-\
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Feeding / Wet food for yeast and environmental allergies
« Last post by Jude19 on April 19, 2026, 05:10:11 PM »
I wonder whether anyone can recommend a wet food, tinned or pouches that would help my 9 year old boy with his itchiness and yeasty ears. He has itched from 12 weeks old, has no sores or inflammation and has been on Apoquel for most of his life.I am happy to keep him on the apoquel and also to return to his immunotherapy jabs I was giving him monthly but wonder whether a change of diet might help and prevent the need for Apoquel. His current diet is Scrumbles, grain free salmon wet and Wellness cold pressed ocean fish kibble grain free, but I have been reading that the grain free might possibly cause a heart condition and as he has been on this diet for some time would consider a change. There is so much info online and I realize that kibble carbs are bad for yeast but don't mind mixing the 2 if I can find anything better. He will eat anything so no worries there.
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by MIN on April 18, 2026, 03:32:57 PM »
our Gemma had a super scary mammary cancer. we removed the offending titty before we knew it was cancerous ( due to upcoming holiday and not wanting to wait ) Her scans and x-rays  showed no further growths and vital organs clear. Chemotherapy was not deemed necessary . Unfortunately  cancer took her exactly 12 months later with no symptoms or warnings. its unbelievable but true, our Gemma gave us nothing to suspect what was going inside. she woke up one sunday morning with a look you knew instantly that something was up. a hour later she was put to sleep with full body cancer .   Its hard to decide what to do as far as treatment goes .  But it looks like you will have time to enjoy and make more memories . We did not get that time, and it hurts .Not to have had the opportunity to be told take her home and love her for the next however long  has caused us the greatest pain and regrets. 

the mass on the spleen not super scary would concern me despite the vet saying different. They are like doctors, you go with 2 problems but they only deal with one and its the one they ignore  that just sits there  festering.

Thinking of you and your pup, they rely on us to make important decisions for them and they are happy to go forward with our decisions because they know we know best and despite it breaks our hearts they love us for it








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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by bizzylizzy on April 18, 2026, 01:44:59 PM »
Agree entirely with ejp. Throughout  our dog?s lives we have to make so many decisions on their behalf and its rarely easy, especially when you?re being offered other opinions  but no one knows your dog better than you, you know deep down what?s best for him, so follow your gut.
Sending good wishes  :luv:
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by ejp on April 17, 2026, 09:39:19 PM »
Deciding to not intervene will be incredibly difficult.  The vet may be able to give you some guidance.  You should go with your gut, you know him best and you will make the right choice for him. Of that I am sure.
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by makenna on April 17, 2026, 08:34:01 PM »
Thank you.  :021: He doesn't really like strangers, so I'm always tickled when people comment on him being nice or sweet.

Coming off the anesthesia was really hard for him post-ultrasound, so I think I'm not going to pursue chemotherapy for him. I may talk with my vet next month when he goes in, but I'm just worried that all of the visits + the potential for side effects wouldn't be worth it, as I'm not really sure they can tell us that it will truly give him more, good quality time. It's really hard for me to just sit back and not intervene but I just have a gut feeling this is in his best interest.  :'(
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by ejp on April 15, 2026, 10:17:41 PM »
Quote from: makenna on April 09, 2026, 07:30:12 PM
Thank you all.

He's back at the vet school today. They are going to do another ultrasound to see if there are any remaining enlarged lymph nodes, which will affect the type of chemo we do if we end up going that route. I'm still undecided in that area.

However, she did assure me that the mass on his spleen wasn't the super scary cancer and that they aren't worried about that right now. So that at least was a weight off my shoulders.

They also told me repeatedly that he was very cute and the vet even called him precious.  :luv:

Well, cute is a given  ;) I hope your next appointment goes well.
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by makenna on April 09, 2026, 07:30:12 PM »
Thank you all.

He's back at the vet school today. They are going to do another ultrasound to see if there are any remaining enlarged lymph nodes, which will affect the type of chemo we do if we end up going that route. I'm still undecided in that area.

However, she did assure me that the mass on his spleen wasn't the super scary cancer and that they aren't worried about that right now. So that at least was a weight off my shoulders.

They also told me repeatedly that he was very cute and the vet even called him precious.  :luv:
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by ejp on April 02, 2026, 08:20:02 PM »
It's so difficult to know what to do.  If you get all the information you can decide from there.  You will make the right choice, I have no doubt about that.
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Health / Re: Apocrine Sweat Gland Adenocarcinoma?
« Last post by Finvarra on March 21, 2026, 06:31:50 PM »
When the vet was suggesting that the cause of Dylan's fits was a brain tumour, we did the research, and found that surgery is not well advanced and is risky, and that radiotherapy and chemo only gave about four extra months, and they probably wouldn't be happy ones. So we decided to just treat the seizures with medication and take it from there. So we don't knowmifmit's epilepsy or a tumour, but he's happy and himself at the moment, and I wouldn't want to put him through chemo for very little gain, so see where you are coming from too. Lots of love to both of you  :bigarmhug:💐💖
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