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What is growing on my dog???
My dog has a growth beside his groin, it started growing roughly 2 years ago and it is around the size of a large grape. It does not bug my dog as he never licks or touches it but it is a sight for sore eyes and we are curious as to how we can remove this safely without visiting the vet. I cant afford a $1,500.00 bill to have it tested and removed but if worse comes to worse I will have to do it. Does anyone know if tying a string around it will possibly work, I have a good friend that says its the safest method. It looks like a skin tag the way it hangs down on a thin piece of skin into a larger ball. Would tying a string around this cause complications?? All advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Ummm no....that is not a skin tag. Go see the vet and do not attempt to do do any kind of cutting, tieing snipping or any other kind of do it your self surgery.
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This is very definitely not something you should try to remove yourself. If the estimate given for the surgery is more than you feel you can afford, try shopping around a bit--you might find a vet with cheaper fees.
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It shouldn't cost $1500 to remove that tumor, it should be considerably less. It looks like it has a very good blood supply, so do it yourself surgery could go very bad!
Check out your area for a low cost spay and neuter clinic, and they might be able to do it for you, or know of somewhere with reasonable pricing.
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A good blood supply and the neck of it is fairly thick so it's not a do it yourself job, I agree with the others. It's interesting, I'd like to hear what it is when the vet has removed it, and by the way, sorry to read that your dog has this, Biggz, as if we haven't enough vet bills without our dogs growing extra bits, hey? One of my shelties has skin tags right near the eye, others have lipomas(fatty cysts), and others have had tumours, but this is the first time I've seen something like this.
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I agree with the others...with the good blood supply it apparently has ... doing it yourself could result in serious blood loss, at the very least.
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