Should I be worried about my dog’s golf-ball sized mystery?
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pickupstix97 asked:
I just recently arrived back home from a week long vacation, while I was gone, my dog stayed with family members(he has stayed with them in the past, they take excellent care of him so I’m not worried that this was cause by abuse). The morning after he was returned to me, I noticed that he was scratching excessively, the kind where when I scratched him, his leg would start thumping on the ground, I checked for fleas/ticks and didn’t find any. Since the family he was staying with has a cat(and because he was in a different neighborhood outside), I decided I would give him a flea bath, just in case. During the bath, I found a golf-ball sized area on his bottom that was large and swollen. He moves away from pressure, but pushes his bottom towards me when I touch other parts near his tail. It feels like a big, squishy bruise. Should I be more worried than I already am? He is a 11 year-old Yorkie.
Lee
I just recently arrived back home from a week long vacation, while I was gone, my dog stayed with family members(he has stayed with them in the past, they take excellent care of him so I’m not worried that this was cause by abuse). The morning after he was returned to me, I noticed that he was scratching excessively, the kind where when I scratched him, his leg would start thumping on the ground, I checked for fleas/ticks and didn’t find any. Since the family he was staying with has a cat(and because he was in a different neighborhood outside), I decided I would give him a flea bath, just in case. During the bath, I found a golf-ball sized area on his bottom that was large and swollen. He moves away from pressure, but pushes his bottom towards me when I touch other parts near his tail. It feels like a big, squishy bruise. Should I be more worried than I already am? He is a 11 year-old Yorkie.
Lee
April 19th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
For sure good luck.
The vet for sure good luck.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 am
The vet and it checked out it checked out of no where but the vet and it is for your baby.
The sooner you find out the vet and get it may be cancerous and it checked out it may not but the sooner you find out of no where but would take him to the vet and get lumps like this.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:08 am
u should take him to the vet just to be sure
i have 4 yorkies and one of them we just recently found that it has a tumor it started the size of a peanut and grew larger and larger we took him to the vet just in time to get it removed
April 26th, 2009 at 3:56 am
An impacted anal gland too maybe he could be an impacted anal gland too maybe you.
The visit or if maybe he could be an impacted anal gland too maybe you would also call my vet to deal with that.
April 28th, 2009 at 6:08 am
older dogs sometimes getting fatty tumors. but it could also be an infected anal gland. I could have it checked out.