So, it's cancer...

We got the biopsy results back on Claude.

Turns out the tumors they removed were malignant melanomas. This is not good. Reading up on the disease, it is apparently a killer.

At this point, we're taking it one day at a time and doing lots of research on our options. It's even more frustrating to read about how if the tumors had been found when they were smaller, the chances of recovery would have been greater.

It makes his suffering in silence even more painful to think about.

I can't say much more on the subject because it makes me so sad. Except that any of you with smaller male dogs should look your gift companions in the mouth frequently. Especially as they get older, and especially if they start to drool for no apparent reason.