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Genes Home wrote:
He's a gorgeous boy.
Not sure if any vets frequent this forum, so I will give this a try, based on my experience as a long term volunteer at the local Humane Society.
1. First, there's no way of really knowing unless you get a vet to come out and dart him with a sedative, and then do field surgury to remove it. You or the vet may need to get permission from, or at least notify, the local Game and Fish department before doing this.
2. If it is a localized cancer tumor (and many dog and cat owners are going to recognize the nature of this issue), he will go along with little or no pain as the tumor grows, until it impairs his mobility and ability to feed, then he will start to decline relatively quickly. Regardless of impairment, when (not if) the cancer reaches the point that it begins to spread through his system he will begin to decline rapidly and the kindest thing to do at that point (when you see visible decline in health and physical condition) is to have a vet come out with the local game and fish department's permission, and dart him and euthanize him in the field. In my experience, they don't feel significant pain from localized tumors, but are in true pain and quite miserable when the cancer spreads throughout their body.
3. It could be one of at least two other things I have seen on occassion. The lesser possibility is that it is an encapsulation of a foreign object (stick, etc.) that he ran into, that got stuck under the skin. I personally feel this is unlikely, as those things generally abcess, rupture, and the foreign object is ejected......or the abcess becomes a systemic infection which eventually kills him. He's really looking pretty good for it to be this type of problem. The second is that it could be a fatty tissue growth or non-cancerous tumor that is simply getting large.
4. I can't imagine any parasitic issue that would cause such a growth.
Anyway, #1 above is really the only reasonable course of action, other than just letting nature take its course.
Best of luck with the handsome fella....Show more →
Excellent analysis!
I totally agree with you on your 3rd point, but I might want to add a few things:
a. Trauma, eg. Blunt trauma, this can easily result in a haematoma. These things tend to organize eventually and then resolve. If they get infected, well, that's another story
About the benign fatty tissue tumors, or Lipoma's, although they are extremely common in dogs, Im not sure of this phenomenon in deer.
RT. v. Genugten, DVM
Edited by RT v Genugten on Jul 22, 2008 at 06:49 AM GMT
Edited on Jul 22, 2008 at 12:49 AM
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