Colliething woes Pete the colliething has had some difficult-to-quantify problems with balance and strangth lately. About a week ago we noticed what we hoped was a tooth abcess, but which turned out to be a mass, on his jaw. The mass was just biopsied as a 'malignant melanoma' (I still have to find out if there is such thing as a non-malignant melanoma). Surgery to remove the mass left him much more balanced and generally better off, and it doesn't seem as if it had spread to the lymph nodes nearby yet, but we are now in the exploring-options phase. A wonderful friend who has been through the cancer thing with several dogs got me in touch with a canine oncologist, who provided lots of information for us to stew over this weekend before we have a chance to set up a formal consultation. I am out of town all weekend, so that makes it worse somehow. This picture is very recent; from just a few evenings ago.  ¶ 2:29 PM