Swollen toe

pphred

 My Australian Shepard mix has a swollen toe and the vet is a little puzzled by it. She is now in a cone and on meds, not lovin the cone. I saw a post that was 2 yrs ago ( looks about the same ) but no one had any kind of answer. It's swollen to the same degree all the way around so vet doesn't believe it to be a tumor. It has been about a week now and the swelling has gone down a little but still there. Could it be just from to much fun once?

My dog had something very like that -- and it *was* a tumor.  The toe doesn't have to be swollen in a particular part.  IN fact Muffin's almost looked like it had a bit of yeast around the nail (which was a red herring for the longest time and was NOT germaine).

 Ask your vet to aspirate it.  That's how they FINALLY diagnosed Muffin's as mast cell cancer.  Not to micromanage -- but if your vet does aspirate, ask him to give him a max dose of Benedryl (mast cell is a histamine tumor)

Other possibilities:

insect bite or sting
http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_canine_osteosarcoma.html
http://www.histovet.com/PDFs/HIS_DiseasesCanine.pdf   (see page 2)
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/72200.htm
Subungual keratoacanthoma

Did they x-ray to see if the toe is broken? My springer broke a toe and it took x-rays to figure it out. Just another possibility...

Unfortunately, many times people never come back to tell us what happened -- may or may not have ever come back to check to see if they had answers. 

bigdog45

that stinks

  I agree; when we take the time to respond to someone asking for advice, often times looking for and adding links, it would be nice to know if the op at least read the posts.