hi some time ago i told you about my rotties leg the vet was querying oesteosarcoma he told us to wait a month and have it re xrayed ,well xrays done no change , good news in one sense but my vet now tells me he as exhausted all avenues and our only options are to either let him limp on , or get an mri done . he is an eight nine in june year old who is well in every other way except for his right front leg , he is insured but as a limit of 2500 of which my vet as spent most of to no avail , the mri will cost at least 1500 .does anyone know where i could take him , i just want to know why hes limping ,and is this mri nessesary .

Where abouts are you, I had a simular problem, my vet took xrays etc and could not tell me why my dog was limping I got fed up and asked for a referral, took the same xrays up with me and the referral vet took one look at them and pointed it out to me on the xrays what my vet could not see oesteosarcoma, bone cancer.  The Referral vet was excellent, she told me exactly what the options were, did not sugar coat it at all, said she could live two three months on pain killers or she could take the leg and hip away, assured me that in doing that there would be no more pain for my dog and that she would get around fine and it would give her another 8 months to a year pain free life but she would only operate if I agreed to let her have chemo too.   I decided she deserved to have every chance available to her and let the operation go ahead, I am so so so very glad I did, Today we just came back from the beach where she has been charging round like a looney and swimming for ages, and this is THREE years after the leg was removed!  My own vet who had looked after he since she was a puppy advised me to have her put to sleep I am so glad I chose not to do that, she is a happy bouncy 11 1/2 year old  lab who doesn't even seem to notice she is a leg short.  I am in the south of England if you want the name and address of my referral vet email me sillwood@sillwood.worldonline.co.uk and I will send you her details.  I have seen her now with 2 of my dogs and cannot fault her in any way.  Although we did not need it I think I remember her saying that she could arrange for an mri scan if needed, but would have to check on that but as I said it was not necessary to have it done in our case.  It was a long operation over 10 hours and the next day when I went to see she she got right up and hopped over to me like everything was normal honestly it is amazing and I was so worried at the time what it would be like for her having three legs.