How much does the surgery cost? She just hit diagnosed today and the tomur is fairly large, how much does the surgery cost? We know it will be expensive and are starting a go-fund-me.

My cat Cheetah is 16 yes old. He was having trouble eating and we took him to the vet and they found a tumor under his tongue. Location, size, age, and having up and down sugar issues makes it impossible for surgery. We are managing with pain medication but I am afraid the time is coming near. He hasnt eaten solid food for a week and canned food for 5 days. He is drinking water and milk but losing weight rapidly. He has started drooling after drinking. He still wants to be around us, sleeps by me every night. He hangs out with our dog and kids. I just am struggling with making the decision to euthanize him since he acts fine, even though he is extremely skinny but I do not want him to suffer. How do I know the time is right? I dont want to end his life sooner than it has to be. How do I know if he is in pain?

Just find out that sadly my 12y cat Bambina has squamous cell carcinoma and a tumor underneath her tongue that cannot be removed now due to location and size. My vet suggested chemotherapy to see if the tumor decreases and we can perform surgery, but they said she would have much of her tongue - if not all of it - removed. She is Already well addapted to an esophaegic tube, has no methastasis and good general condition. So can a cat live without the tongue?

Just find out that sadly my 12y cat Bambina has squamous cell carcinoma and a tumor underneath her tongue that cannot be removed now due to location and size. My vet suggested chemotherapy to see if the tumor decreases and we can perform surgery, but they said she would have much of her tongue - if not all of it - removed. She is alreay well addapted to an esophaegic tube, has no methastasis and good general condition. So can a cat live without the tongue?

My cat Have Blqck tumour under her tongue and tongue comes to one side and there is a black liquid in mouth and drooling with blood which have bad smell nothing eats and drink since 5 days his teeth are damaged Is this a oral cancer?

I'm not sure what to do for him. Lucky's been diagnosed around a week ago and the vet didn't operate. I'm not sure if it's because of severity, or because that the one that drove him to the vet is a complete defeatist. He's still trying to live, and is still trying to eat. Is there a way to remove the tumor, or should we just switch to liquid food and pray? I want to do whatever I can to help him survive. I don't want to say goodbye...

Hi there. I'm writing in to get some advise. About a month ago I came home and noticed a spot of dried blood on my cat (Gus). It was on his chest so I thought he may have scratched himself. I shaved his chest to investigate but I saw nothing. Weeks went by without seeing anything else. Two Thursdays ago I washed his bed and noticed small brown stains all over it. I figured it may have been some poop left on his bum. However that Saturday morning he started going nuts. He had dry food in his bowl but he kept meowing and pawing at everything he could to make as much noise as possible. So I gave him some wet food, he ate it super fast then went for a nap. So I thought maybe his dry food was too hard as he no longer wanted to eat it. I hoped he may have a broken or infected tooth and that's why he couldn't eat the dry food. We had also been noticing his breath getting worse over the past week.I called the vet and asked to make an appointment for a quick oral exam for Thursday. A few days go by, then we start to notice that he's drooling a lot. Like I woke up on Tuesday and he was standing beside my head and drool was dangling from his mouth to my pillow. We bring him in on Thursday and our vet sees nothing wrong with his teeth or anything with his mouth really. So we did a full geriatric/fat cat blood and urine profile. Everything came back fine (except for his thyroid but he's already on tapazol for that). So she wanted him to stay for the day on Monday so she could sedate him and look in his mouth better. So Monday comes along, I drop him off at the vet and a few hours later she calls me to tell me she didn't even have to sedate him she could see there was a giant tumor under his tongue that somehow got punctured and therefore infected. So now it's Wednesday and we're pretty sure it's cancer. I guess I'm wondering what my options really are. He's on two pain killers and seems to be fine, except when he eats or drinks. I have to make his wet food completely liquid and it seems to be very hard for him to swallow. He's cleaning himself just fine. So it is the "chewing" that's hard for him or the swallowing? If we were able to do surgery and some of his tongue needed to be removed could be still swallow? I guess I'm wondering if he's I'm pain when eating or when swallowing. Thanks for reading, I know it's very long

Has anyone had this diagnosis outta nowhere? Seriously noticed out cat Buddy who is 13 kind of drooling & curling his tongue for like 2 days called the vet to make an appointment thinking maybe he has an abscess or something....he also likes to rug really hard at plug/outlets so thought initially perhaps he zapped himself....vet couldn't get us in for a couple days then next day he looks like pus/drool is coming from one side & mouth looks uneven, I immediately call to get in that day was able to get in, vet said could very well be cancerous tumors on right back side of tongue...white pockets & some black areas...gave amoxicillin & carafate to see if its just a super infection before she jumps to a biopsy etc....I swear this cane out of left field, he know has been on meds for 1.5 days & he appears to be worse bit hoping he's just fighting infection...how aggressive is younger cancer at this rate it seems like we only have days..he's totally different than from 2 days ago! We are devastated!

Fluffy has had bad breath for a pretty long time, and she actually went to the vet a month or two ago and the vet said she would probably need put to sleep soon because they apparently couldn't remove the tumor that they discovered. She has also been drooling excessively for a few months and as of today she isn't really able to eat or drink; she does have a decent amount of energy left still, though. I was just wondering, at about what point is it too late to consider trying to have the tumor removed and to just do as the vet recommended and have her put to sleep?