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Are Amoxicillin and Destolit safe for my Border Collie's liver tumor?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Border Collie | Female | spayed | 12 years and 11 months old

I've been taking my Border Collie to the vet recently because of sore pads on her back paws they have discovered through an ultra scan & xray its her liver and the say there is a tumour too she has been given 250mg x14.0 2 times a day of Amos/clav & Destolit 150mg x1.5 a day she is roughly 12/23 years is the tablets safe to take l am so worried as the last medicine Meoxicam seemed to have caused all this she seemed OK before

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Answered By Daniel Fonza, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on February 26th, 2018

Hi there and thank you for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach to address your concern. The medications Cassie is currently on are safe to administer to her. The Amoxicillin Clavulanic acid is an antibiotic and the Destolit will help support her liver function. To help support liver function, I also recommend using Denamarin liver supplement which can be found online quite easily. I would discuss starting Denamarin with your vet first prior to adding any an additional supplement into the mix. I hope this helps guide you in the right direction! Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I would be more than happy to help you further.

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