Question for Dr. Doug

lasparrot wrote:

Deb and Ed M wrote:
Did Maggie just get vaccinated? The reason I ask: Jimmy's kidneys enlarge when he gets his shots. Stays that way for a bit (a couple of weeks), then goes back to normal. The rabies vaccination seems to cause it more than the 5-way. And it's way different than the way a lipoma (fat tumor) feels; doesn't move around, of course...LOL!

Oh my gosh! That would scare the begeebers out of me. Can you take Titres and skip some of the vaccinations?

It's "just Jimmy". My Vet said it's actually a sign that his body is doing what it should when vaccinated? Doesn't seem to bother him in the least. I AM glad that we only have to do the rabies every 3 years...

I'm sorry I didn't get back here sooner........Maggie's lumps are what Dr Doug said lipomas.

That makes me feel a little better, right now she has a lot of issue's going on, typical old dog things. I just didn't want her to have to battle cancer on top of everything else right now. We are discussing what to do next.

As so many of you have had to do, we are dealing with the reality of her nearing the end of her life. I'm hoping we can have at least one more good year with her.

Thanks Everyone

I hope your vet was able to answer your questions. Please update us when you can.

Deb and Ed M wrote:
Did Maggie just get vaccinated? The reason I ask: Jimmy's kidneys enlarge when he gets his shots. Stays that way for a bit (a couple of weeks), then goes back to normal. The rabies vaccination seems to cause it more than the 5-way. And it's way different than the way a lipoma (fat tumor) feels; doesn't move around, of course...LOL!

Oh my gosh! That would scare the begeebers out of me. Can you take Titres and skip some of the vaccinations?

Thanks we are waiting to talk to the vet now....

Can't tell from picture exactly where the lumps are. Probably best to have your vet check them out. The most common lumps are lipomas.

Doug

Thank You Roy Ken, that will be helpful next time.

Deb, yes she was vaccinated with all her yearly shots about a month or so ago. Don't think they were there than, otherwise my vet would have told me. The big one in picture is soft, the smaller one on the left side seems a little hard. Maybe just because its smaller.

We are going to see her vet this afternoon, I was just hoping for a little info so as not to be too devastated later. :@

Just thought it is a little weird to have this on both sides.

Did Maggie just get vaccinated? The reason I ask: Jimmy's kidneys enlarge when he gets his shots. Stays that way for a bit (a couple of weeks), then goes back to normal. The rabies vaccination seems to cause it more than the 5-way. And it's way different than the way a lipoma (fat tumor) feels; doesn't move around, of course...LOL!

CHRISNPAT - It looks like tinypic has done what it was suppose to do. WHat you need to do is paste a JPG type picture into one of these PIC programs like TINYPIC which will take your JPG picure and give it a valid URL address that you need to post it to the forum...

After tinypic has created the HTTP type address then you have to copy that line and add it to the EDIT IMAGE ICON here on this forum just like I did. I use a different free photo program here called IMGUR. IT does the same thing with my pictures that your tinypic does.

All I did above was copy your HTTP line for your picture from your post and pasted it into the EDIT IMAGE ICOM and added a height size of 400 I think I used.

Hope you dog gets to doing better...
Roy Ken

I'd have a vet take a look at it.

I think fatty lipomas are relatively common in older cockers. My friend has a senior male cocker who was dumped in a shelter when his owner passed. He's somewhere around 16 now, and he has a soft ball size lump on his side.

I had a rescue cocker in, that had a huge lump on her neck. It was just a fatty lipoma. The vet tech told me it was weird - popped out like an egg when they made the incision.

With your dog having two pop out, I'd have a vet check her to be sure it's not something to be concerned about.

I had an older cocker who had one up around his arm pit. We didn't worry about it right away, as he was older. It started getting bigger and affected the swing of his leg when he was walking. At that point, we opted to have it removed before he got any older. It was just a fatty lipoma.