I found a couple lumps on our dog, Bear's, throat day before yesterday and we feared the worst, especially considering the lumps were not there a week earlier, and he's been coughing badly all week. He's only 6 1/2 but berners are prone to cancers at about that age, so my mom took him to the animal hospital. The vet ran some tests, and she said it isn't his thyroid (which really would have been the best case scenario), so now Bear is headed in for a biopsy on tuesday. If he does have cancer, it is malignant and there's nothing we can do at this point because apparently it's a horribly aggressive cancer that will probably kill him within days, maybe a couple weeks. I really keep hoping that it's going to turn up nothing and he'll be okay, but realistically, it probably is cancer. If his biopsy comes back saying it's cancer, we'll be putting him down next week I think. It really really sucks.