Hi all, my bitch has gone to be spayed this morning, it felt like i was leavin one of my own kids there when i handed her over.... anyway i just had a call from the vet sayin "nothing to worry about but the vet just found a mammory tumour do you want her to remove it" well of coure i said yes but now im worried sick, has anyone had this experience, shes eight and had two litter, the last one was three years ago. thanks

my old girl had a tumour which was removed when she was spayed, it was benign and she went on to live a very happy healthy 4 yrs , try not to worry

Almost exactly the same here. Mine was spayed aged 8 and the same morning I found a tumour so asked the vet to remove it at the same time, and had it sent off for testing. It turned out to be benign. She is now 12 and STILL winning at shows. She's since developed a couple of tiny mammary tumours but as they have not grown at all in well over a year we have decided to leave them alone.

My Megan, now 13 , developed a fungating mammary tumour about 3 years ago. It grew so quickly , almost within a few days ,and had she not rolled over to show me it, I may not have noticed it for ages. It  had started oozing nasty stinky stuff but did not seem to cause her any distress. We were in France at the time but due to return to the UK within a couple of days so we decided to have the surgery done in the UK. Our vet in France seemed pretty pessimistic and gave her a farewell cuddle. Anyway, she had the tumour removed and there has been no spread or recurrence. She has other age related health issues but none regarding tumour. Oh yes, she was spayed about 6 months after the tumour -she developed pyometra, just before we were planning to have her spayed - full recovery from that too.

Hope this is reassuring.

Thanks for the replys, shes home and fine, the tumor was very small and was not deep, Shes just in total disgust at the fact she has to wear a cone, when i put it on her this mornin when i nipped to the shop she looked like she wanted to kill me!! bless her.