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Dog has lump on tail and its full of puss
HyperAquaBlast
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So my 11 year old golden retriever mix has this lump on her tail for the past few years. It's gotten pretty big. I always thought it was like an old wound that never healed properly. So I was touching it and there was this hard tip coming protruding from it. So I trimmed her tail around the spot and checked it out.
Well it looked like dried mud. So I began picking it off and realized there was a almost pencil sized hole that these grainy things were coming from. So I squezzed it. Pretty forcefully and almost like a huge grub worm of puss started coming out. First dark brown and then to a white. It was very thick and a very sweet smell came from it and stayed as one piece through most of it. My dog didn't seem to mind until I pressed really hard to get the last bits out. The lump is much smaller now but now there is a hole. Well it kinda puckered up now but there is a hole none the less. I cleaned it with alcohol and wrapped it up.
Ummm does anyone know what this is or is this one of those just go see a vet my dog maybe dead soon things?
Well it looked like dried mud. So I began picking it off and realized there was a almost pencil sized hole that these grainy things were coming from. So I squezzed it. Pretty forcefully and almost like a huge grub worm of puss started coming out. First dark brown and then to a white. It was very thick and a very sweet smell came from it and stayed as one piece through most of it. My dog didn't seem to mind until I pressed really hard to get the last bits out. The lump is much smaller now but now there is a hole. Well it kinda puckered up now but there is a hole none the less. I cleaned it with alcohol and wrapped it up.
Ummm does anyone know what this is or is this one of those just go see a vet my dog maybe dead soon things?
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There's a whooping total of two reasons why I think you should go to the vet with her:
1) I don't think we have any vets on PA
2) I don't know if what you did with it is ok, but a vet should be able to tell what's what.
is probably the most disgusting thing i have ever, or will ever, read.
It's all scabbed over now and he's none the worse for wear.
But if you're worried or if it still smells infected, you should head for a vet. When our dog's tumor came out, there wasn't any "sweet smell" of decay.
1. If it's still draining, you should try drawing the fluid out with a hot compress.
2. Keep it clean and use an antibiotic cream.
If it doesn't heal in a week or so or gets larger or looks infected, you should take the dog into the vet so they can clean the rest of the cyst out.
It may well be something like this which has become infected, especially if it looks like a clean tunnel.
Edit: The solution was a couple seconds with tweezers and some antibiotic ointment. Dog didn't care at all.
Don't know if this was ever "officially" solved or not, but this is the right answer. 99.9% it is a sebaceous cyst. I just wanted to add that you may want to consider a vet even if you think you got it all cleaned out, because odds are high it'll come back again and again until you do. They're pretty impossible to completely flush out on your own.
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Um update?: Vet said don't worry about it. Thing is my dog has a shit ton of lumps now but this is the only one thats open.