Resources

A crash course on canine cancer.
This book will show you how to be your best friend's best advocate.

“Your book was my savior, my inspiration while battling cancer with Maxim. Anybody fighting cancer with their pet should have Help Your Dog Fight Cancer as a reference.”   (Marie and Angel)

IF YOU HAVE A DOG WITH CANCER

Go to the book website! Click above.

You will find lots of info about dogs and cancer and

FREE downloads with information you will need.

Learn how to navigate the complicated ins and outs of canine cancer treatment.

  • Causes, prevention, early warning signs 
  • Diagnostics: To test or not to test?
  • What to ask & tell your veterinarian
  • When to treat, when not to
  • Choosing a treatment plan
  • What is “Overtreatment” ?
  • What is “Undertreatment” ?
  • Treatment side effects and dangers
  • Diet and supplements to fight cancer
  • How to reduce the costs of treatment

Support Groups

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

You may find that friends and family – the people who give you moral and emotional support group in other circumstances – are not able to help you now. They cannot understand or relate to your efforts to help your dog fight cancer. They might say “It’s only a cat” or “It’s only a dog.”

Be assured, you are not alone! Many others are helping their pets fight cancer! 

Internet support groups for pet cancer are jam packed with people going through the same experience you are going through. They will never say “It’s just a dog!” Members offer each other emotional support. They share information about their experience with their pet’s cancer, various treatments and tests and supplements and more.

If you have a pet with cancer, please join one of these groups! If you are shy, you can just read posts by others for a while, then jump in and introduce yourself and your pet.

Pet Cancer Support any dog with cancer

Feline Cancer Support any cat with cancer

LymphomaHeartDogs dogs with lymphoma

BoneCancerDogs dogs with bone cancer

Tripawds.com 3-legged dogs and cats

CanineCancer.com any dog with cancer

Vaccines and Cancer

Vaccinating a pet with cancer is like throwing kerosene on a fire. Download a vaccine waiver HERE.

Consults

Your Dog

Your Money

Your Decisions

There’s almost always more than one way to treat a dog with cancer. As your pet’s first advocate, find out what all of the options are, and then choose the one that works best for you and your pet.

If your veterinary medical team says what treatment they will give your pet – without explaining all of your options and letting you choose – you need more information.

Schedule a consult with Laurie. She will review your pet’s diagnosis, treatment plan and home care plan, and help you make decisions. You’ll discuss what else can be done to help your pet fight cancer.

Zoom or phone call, your choice.

The Cancer Diet

Here is a very brief explanation of the Cancer Diet for pets. It is the diet that Bullet was given for more than 4 years, while in remission from lymphoma. A pet with cancer should eat a high fat, low carbohydrate diet. 

Fats (Omega-3 fatty acids) provide nutrients to the pet. Good O-3 fatty acids include flax seed oil, and fish oil. 

Carbohydrates only feed the cancer, allowing tumors to grow and multiply.

For those who home-cook (or home-raw) a diet for their dog, a good plan is to include 75% meat and 25% vegetables. Add supplements like fatty acids, tofu, and eggs.

Supplements

Supplements benefit any pet. They are essential for pets with cancer. Always give your pet high quality supplements produced with reliable quality control. Reports from www.ConsumerLab.com can help you compare the quality of various brand names, and choose the best quality supplements for your pet… and for the rest of your family.

Thousands of manufacturers and distributors claim that their products fight cancer. There are just as many web sites selling these products. Most have only anecdotal evidence of their efficacy with testimonials from users, veterinarians and/or physicians attesting to the supplement’s cancer-fighting properties. When you find a supplement that you want to give your pet, type it into a search engine and compare sources. The prices vary widely and the quality may vary as well. Some products are organic or natural-made and others are not. Some manufacturers have superior quality control of their products.

Each cancer case is different. Each pet is unique. A supplement that is helpful in one case may be ineffective in others, for reasons that are not understood. With the information currently available, pick and choose what you believe will help our pet. Read, research, and reach out to people in the support groups to help make your decisions.

Which products actually help in the fight against cancer? Clearly, there is no supplement that cures cancer! For most of the types of cancer, there isn’t even a medication or procedure that can offer a cure. If there was, none of our pets or family members or friends would have cancer! Successful cases do occur, and may be due to choosing the perfect “treatment + diet + supplements” regimen. Some may be spontaneous cures or remissions that occur sporadically and inexplicably, just as cancer itself may inexplicably develop in some pets and not others. But give your pet supplements to strengthen his/her organs against the cancer, and against treatment side effects.