As a few people know, this last week has been hell. Late May I mentioned Claus having a tumor, but it was quickly removed and the vet made it sound like he'd be fine, he just said the area around it was "very infected"...

Flashforward to now and it reemerged with extra strength, likely because it was never really gone. I went to the vet and was then sent to a specialist who got the report for the vet who removed the first one and told me... it's was something else entirely, an almost always fatal kind of cancer caused by vaccines (x) which, even if you remove all of it, it still leaves behind microscopic cancer cells in other parts of the body.

The specialists ran some tests... and there's pretty much nothing they can do. They mentioned removing his leg to give him a bit of extra time, but it would only be about a month more and that would be traumatizing for him and he'd have to learn to walk to two legs + he hates those head cones + and it + the meds + everything else would cost around 6,000 dollars... so I decided against that.

He's still eating and he enjoys getting in my lap and being petted and all, so I'm just going... take one day at a time until he seems like he doesn't want to live any more.

Still, I kind of wanted to just... dedicate a post to how awesome he is

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