Fatty tumor???

Hi I am new to this board and I am glad I found you. I have a 13 yo toy poodle (cuddles), she has a couple of spots one on her stomach area and one on her chest. They are mushy feeling but firm, she has had them for about a year now and there has been no change in size, and she doesn't mind them being touched. Just wondering if it could be a harmless fatty tumor? Anyone ever had this in one of their dogs??

 

My first question is, have you taken her to a vet? We can't diagnose tumors here, and it wouldn't be appropriate if we tried. A vet is the only one who can tell you if they are fatty tumors, or something more serious. In any case, that should have been your first move.

Randi

 

welcome!I would take her to the vet, to confirm yes or no, they will do a biopsy to determine if they are fatty tumors or malignant. My 7 year old lab started getting them last year and freaked me out, so I took him to the vet and and they did biopsies and they are just fatty tumours. I do need to watch them, because if they grow then I need to get them biopsied again.
honeybear

 

The Vet can will a simple needle biopsy to determine if it is fatty tissue. Those lumps are very common in older dogs.

 

I have to agree with seaecho, you need to take her to the vet and that should have been your priority when you first noticed it. I'm a bit confused, why did you wait a year to bother questioning it? If it is anything serious it's probably too late for treatment now, surgery to remove the lumps might be the only option if they are something serious. But then again I'm no vet and my dogs have never had this. I have no idea what those lumps could be or what they could mean, so I'm not going to try to diagnose your pet. The best advice anyone here could give you is, get her to a vet!

 

My friends dog had a 'bump' and the vet said it was nothing.

..... She should have gotten a second opinion.

A while after that, it got bigger pretty quickly and by the time she got to the vet, they could do nothing.

I think it was a sist and it busted...

:cry:

Please take your dog to the vet and even get a second opinion if you have to!

 

whoooooaaaaa did l make it sound like l havent taken her to the vet, I have and we are awaiting results and I am so worried about it. That is why I posted to see if any other dog owners had the same experience just to find out it was a harmeless fatty tumor?? Just trying to pass time til we get results and ease my mind a little.

 

dolphin, you do have to be careful how you word things , s sometimes things across differnently to some or importnat htings are left out and people jump the gun.

As I said my dog has them at 7 year so age, which I think is too young, my parents dog had benign tumors all over and he lived until he was 15. and he was a BIG dog, 100#.

So good thoughts to you and hopefully everything is okay, please let us know

honeybear

 

Dolphin,
Prayers coming your way I'd be a nervious reck if something was wrong with one of my dogs.