You know me... I would have taken a lot of pictures ;~D
My old vet brought his golden with him in his truck... Could never let her out here because she and Gidget looked too growly at each other.
My dog vet was really funny, when I had my old labrador Logan in to look at some lumps that were growing... At sixteen, he had several lumps around his body... and some warts, and all seemed to be benign, but a few were getting big enough to be noticed. One was right in between his back toes and it was becoming painful walking and would bleed. We decided to take it out. So we're looking over the rest of his lumps, and I'm trying to figure out which were worth removing 'as long as he was gonna be under anesthesia anyway'. Heck... I don't know which are worth taking off and which are just vanity, so I ask him. "If he was your dog, which ones would you take off?" He said, "Well, if it was my dog, I'd take them all off, but then, it's sortof a hobby of mine isn't it?" HA! For some reason that just really cracked me up.
Incidently, he never did have the surgery... I made the appt for my following payday, but a few days before, his back gave out and we was paralyzed. Ended up putting him down, still with a bandage on his foot that was to hold him till the surgery.
I'm sorry to hear that about your dog. That's such a hard thing to have to do, but it's good for both of you that you didn't let it drag on. I was guilty of that with my cat. He got cancer behind his left eye and we tried everything to save him, even removing the eye and having chemo, but he was so pitiful after a week or so of chemo that I just couldn't do it to him anymore and had him put down. If I had known it was going to turn out that way, I would've never put him through all that. I don't know if it was the chemo or just a natural progression of the cancer, but he went blind in the eye he had left. He would just wander around the house, bumping into things and crying. The only time he was quite was when my husband held him. It was so sad, but it made having him put down an easier decision to make.
I love vets with a sense of humor. My vet was coming out one day and at that time, we lived near the airport. The vet was trying to time our appointment to coincide with a delivery he was picking up at the airport. He said, " I'll be there around 2:00, that's when I'm expecting my semen." That threw me off guard and I couldn't think of a reply so I said, "oh yeah, I'm expecting some semen later, too." He took it the wrong way...