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| My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:14 pm)
It's big and hard. Feels like a big puss ball or something. If you made it perfectly round it would be as big as a softball.
Should I poke it with a needle or not?
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BarDTiger81
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:17 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Do it with camera rolling please.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:17 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
If your dog has a softball size growth on neck you probably want to see a vet. If you had this on your neck would you want your dog sticking it with a needle?
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:17 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
I think this warrants a trip to the vet...
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:18 pm to TorNation)
No I wouldn't, but since it's on her neck and not mine, I'm thinking about poking it and seeing what comes out. Doesn't seem to be bothering her much.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:19 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Give your dog away.
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BarDTiger81
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:20 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
I would do it. I've done it to a cow before.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:21 pm to OTIS2)
Hell no. She's a deer finding machine.
BarD, I've done it on cows a few times too. I'm just torn between if I should drain it or see if it'll take care of itself.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:22 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Bring it to the vet, just had a tumor removed fom my lab, was just under her skin and not bothering her at all, came back as stage III soft tissue carcinoma. 
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:24 pm to Tigerpaw123)
This thing went from nothing to it's current size in 2 days. I'm pretty certain it isn't cancerous. It feels like a cysts, it's just really really big.
I honestly haven't tried to drain it yet because I will probably puke from the smell.
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Jim Rockford
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:25 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Take your dog to the vet.
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Tigerpaw123
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:25 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Could be anything , a sebaceous cyst is what you are hoping for, but a mast cell tumor can grow rapidly, go to vet an ask for a fine needle aspiration.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:26 pm to Jim Rockford)
The vet costs money.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:28 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:30 pm to Jim Rockford)
Sorry man. I'm a broke arse college kid and I grew up a farm hand. "Bring it to the vet" is almost never an option.
I wouldn't be able to bring her till tomorrow anyway.
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:31 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:31 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
Someone's daughter on here is a vet, see if you can trade firewood...
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:31 pm to BarDTiger81)
quote:
I've done it to a cow before.
alot of us are country boys and not proud of our "sexual past", but some things are better off left unsaid, especially your "stump trained" girlfriends in missahippy comments..
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:33 pm to Bigpoppat)
casty away
Thought it was a snake bite at first, but it's a different kind of swelling than a snake bite.
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: My dog has a huge abcess thingy on her neck under the skin (Posted on 11/25/12 at 1:36 pm to wickowick)
I figured a dog man like yourself would have popped one of these things before 
I guess I should've popped it right when I first noticed it and it was about as big as a gumball.
Not sure if LA 200 is safe for dogs either, and that's the only anti biotic stuff I have laying around.
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