Larry Atherton
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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I had a male that had colon cancer many years ago. I took him to several vets without any luck. They all said he had worms. I told them that I knew how to do a fecal check, and I had been searching samples for a month without any sight of worm eggs.
Finally, I made the 2 1/2 hour drive to ole Doc Kelly. I walked into the examine room, and Dr. Kelly mentioned he watched me and the dog walk up to the building, and that he suspected cancer. He put on a glove and felt around. He then held a glove out to me, and told me to start at about 12:00 O'clock and rotate my finger around clockwise. He then told me I should feel a growth at 10:00 O'clock. I did.
He took out 12" of colon, and then an additional 6" two weeks later. The dog healed really well. I think he would have lived a lot longer if he wasn't cursed. The dogs was a very hard hunting dog, and about a year later he got sick. I took him back to Doc, and the dog had run a 4" stick into his abdominal cavity. After another surgery, he healed up fine. I was scared to hunt him, and waited for almost 1 year. The first night I hunted him he got sick the next day. We went back to Doc Kelly. He had run another stick into himself again. He didn't survive that time.
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