Hey! Simple glucosamine and fish oil supplements are great to give your lab. Keeping her weight normal and exercise daily is all she needs and alot of love! I would have a routine check up with your local vet yearly to do a physical exam and some bloodwork and that's it. I hope this helped! Dr. Lindsay Butzer My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBvlURdNKSJ2oRbzUB1_JQw

Hey, Lipomas are very rare to occur at 4 months old. I would advise you to go to your local veterinarian and have them do a hands on physical exam to let you know what is going on and what treatment approach to take. Might be nothing at all! I hope this helped. Dr. Lindsay Butzer

Hey! Do not use Peroxide or Witch Hazel on this wound. This is too strong and burns and slows healing. You need to go to your local veterinarian and have them look at it. It could be cyst but could also be a tumor, which would need surgery to remove it. Your dog most likely also needs antibiotics to help it heal. I hope this helped. Dr. Lindsay Butzer

Hey! If it feels like it and is characteristic of it then a clear greasy slide is safe to say this is just a fatty tumor "lipoma". If it was bloody and firm hard with lumps then I would want more aspirates and send to lab for pathology review. I hope this helps! Dr. Lindsay Butzer

Hey! If the lump is HARD then I would have your local veterinarian do an aspirate of this lump and send out for cytology. It could be cancer. I don't want to scare you, but I recommend getting it checked. If you search on my Doctor Lindsay Butzer YouTube channel I have a whole youtube video on "how to check your dog for lumps and masses" LINK HERE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CygTHVGLmI I hope this helped! Dr. Lindsay Butzer

Okay. I dont see a question here. Your veterinarian can examine it and remove it if they think that is necessary. Dr. Lindsay Butzer

I get this question a lot and no, there doesn't seem to be anything as it is just a genetic predisposition as far as we can tell.

Lumps can be benign, malignant and everything in between. It is impossible to tell, just by looking at a mass, what kind of cells it contains. Have your veterinarian check it out - they will usually do a "fine needle aspirate" - a little mini-biopsy where they stick a small needle in it and suck some cells out and either look at it right there in their office or send it off to a pathologist. Then you can make a plan for it - if it is definitely benign, your veterinarian may recommend doing nothing.

There are no proven medical treatments for fatty tumors. Surgical removal is the only cure, BUT since they are benign (if diagnosed correctly with testing) and not bothering her at all, surgery may be unnecessary as they are only a cosmetic problem at that point. If she is overweight, losing weight is a good idea - that may help shrink them, but they won't go away entirely.

Yes, these are fairly common, but need to be checked. Masses can be benign, malignant and everything in between. It is impossible to tell, just by looking at a mass, what kind of cells it contains. Have your veterinarian check it out - they will usually do a "fine needle aspirate" - a little mini-biopsy where they stick a small needle in it and suck some cells out and either look at it right there in their office or send it off to a pathologist. Then you can make a plan for it - if it is definitely benign, your veterinarian may recommend doing nothing.

No, unfortunately the only way to get rid of them is surgical removal, BUT if it has been diagnosed definitely as benign at your veterinarians, it may not need removing.

Surgical removal is done under general anesthesia, BUT if it has been tested at your veterinarians and determined to be benign, that may be unnecessary. Less is known about prevention but preventing your dog from becoming overweight can help.

I didn't write that article and, like your veterinarian, don't recommend injecting these benign tumors with something that may cause pretty serious problems until more research is done. This is exactly what the article states: "Some veterinarians recommend injection of caustic material (30% calcium chloride) into the fatty tumor. The potential side effects of calcium chloride injection include pain, sloughing of the skin, the death of healthy tissue outside the fatty tumor, and acute inflammation caused by dying fat cells."

I can't tell exactly what is going on by your description so your veterinarian is definitely the best person to work with and give you advice about this. Like, is he taking the antibiotics and steriods because of a benign tumor? That is very unusual as they do not become secondarily infected very often, and they don't respond to steroids, so be sure it is benign. If it is truly benign, we usually do not recommend surgery. Then if they are unsure if it is benign, we usually do recommend surgery, but he would need to be assessed thoroughly (lots of blood work and chest x-rays, etc.) to be sure he is a good anesthetic candidate.

There are many things that cause sores like that (allergies, mange, ringworm, etc) and most are treated differently so have your veterinarian run some more tests and make a diagnosis. Allergies are most common but if your cat didn't respond to steroids at all, your veterinarian will need to start doing tests for more rare conditions (fungal infections, cancer, etc.) and/or refer you to a specialist.