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Big Scare

Posted : 2/28/2008 2:58:49 PM

Last night i was giving KayCee belly and leg rubs--and found a lump on her inner right rear leg. Is up high and towards the back right where her bloomers start. Felt about the size of a pea and did move around very easy.

First thing this morning i called my vet's office. I know goldens are prone to get fatty tumors as they get older and she is 8 1/2----but they are also prone to cancer. Got her there and she went right straight to the scale and got on it, and when i said okay,she headed for the front door. I take her in about every4-6 weeks to get weighed, making sure to keep her weight down. We go in, she goes straight to the scares and gets on them and when it steaeis and i get her weight i tell her okay and she gts off and heads for fornt door. She doens't like it when we have to head into one of the exam rooms--bad things like shots, knee surgeries, things poked up her rear, etf happens in 'that room'. Was upset to find she had to go into "that room"

Rickey came in and i got her on her back and showed him where the lump was--he was amazed i had found it because of the area it is in. he was pretty sure it was a fatty tumor, but got a needle and drew stuff from it and looked at it uner the microscope--or whatever--and came back smiling and sai it was just fat.

Said we will just leave it --unless it gets bigger. He said it it gets twice or more as big it would probably annoy her and then he would "snatch' it out. Even knowing last night it was more than likedly a fatty tumor and nothing to really worry about, it did scare me.

Maxs Mom

Posted : 2/28/2008 3:15:57 PM

Any time we find lumps on our babies we are entitled to be scared! I am glad KayCee's turned out to be a fatty thing. Max has some lumps on her, hers feel more warty but with all her hair I can't see them. I have not felt any changes and we are do soon for the spring shots so "if" I can find it again I will get the vets opinion too.

I like your scales story! My dogs have varying views of the vet. Max has the hardest time because until she was 8 1/2 she never went to a vet clinic. My girlfriend was her vet we either went to her house or she came to mine. Max's first vet clinic experience was her knee surgery. She was NOT happy. So from there if we had to go I would call and ask if I could give her a tranquilizer to help her not stress out. They usually said yes, and her last visit to our new vet we didn't and Max was "ok". She likes these people and my other dogs were there too, which I am sure helped. My other dogs do not seem to care. Teddi just likes to go visiting, she doesn't care who it is.

KAYCEE no more scaring you mommy!