Oh, we got some bad news for Beau last week.  I brought him in for his shots and to have a growth on his rear leg checked out.  The rear leg growth was no big deal, but his front leg had some swelling that was a very big deal: bone cancer.

My great vet took some x-rays to confirm it.  The cancer has not metastasized yet.  If Beau's rear wasn't so weak and giving out on him we would consider amputating the leg before the cancer spread.  Chemo's no good for his weakened state, either.  So the vet prescribed piroxicam, which should help for any pain, perhaps reduce the swelling, and maybe even have some anti-cancer benefit.

Beau did quite a bit of dancing around this weekend so he's dealing well as of today.  Everything is fine upstairs, so to say, it's just that his legs are slowly going out from under him.