Thank you for your kind words. I wish you and your dog the best in dealing with this illness. I didn't mention it in my previous posting, but another thing that truly helped Mike in the last 9 months of his life was working with, for lack of a better description, a healer. She does energy work remotely. Mike had arthritis in all his legs and back in addition to the cancer. It seemed to me that he was bothered more by the arthritis than the cancer. There were days he'd have such difficulty getting up and then again when he tried to sit down. There were days when he was lame. I had been working with a person doing energy work on me. I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Through this person I was given the name of a woman who does energy work on animals. I called her and she began "working" on Mike. He responded beautifully. From limping to walking again all from a person doing remote energy work. If I didn't see it I wouldn't have believed it could work for animals and remotely to boot. But if it works for people I know that animals are much more receptive. She worked on Mike three times a week for about 1/2 hour each time. She told me months into his treatments that Mike was an amazing dog, that his spirit was so open and receptive. She said there were times when she wondered if he would respond and bounce back and she said he always did. So, yes, I did everything I could for Mike, from completely changing his diet, meds and the energy work -- physically, medically and spiritually. But it's very little consolation when that sweet and beautiful little body is no longer present in my home. But he is still present in my heart.