Our options are steroid shots which should allow the dog to live for another 4 to 6 months, or chemo which they estimate 9 to 12 months. I love my dog and want what's best for him. We are strapped financially, so the $1800.00 or more for chemo will really hurt. Another issue is I'm wondering how difficult the chemo is on the dog. I hear varying opinions on chemo, including dogs don't have a problem with it at all, to the treatments nearly killing some dogs.

So I guess the main question is "How difficult is the chemotherapy on the dog?" Would steroids keem him comfortable so we can have him for a few precious months?

-You have already learned that the chemotherapy will not cure your dog of cancer, but give him a few more months. Chemotherapy hits dogs as hard as it hits people (I have had chemotherapy). I would not pay $1800 for my dog to have a few more months, as those months would be filled with fatigue and feeling lousy. Choose the other option and let him go...I know it's very hard, but since you love him, you want what's easiest for him...

-If the chemo does not give the possibility of long term remission, I would not make the dog go through that. Not for the possibility of just a handful of months.

You heard from a person that has gone through chemo. In all honesty, unless there was a high percentage chance of long term remission, I wouldn't put myself through it.