Max has had a spot/bump on his back paw for a while now. I treated it with over the counter hot spot meds. They didn't help too much. He wasn't limping or favoring the paw in any way. But, we did catch him licking it and biting it quite a bit. So, off to the veterinarian clinic.
They lanced and drained it, gave him a shot of penicillin, wrapped it, gave me meds for a yeast infection in the ear, gave me antibiotics for 10 days to clear up the infection in his paw, tried to convince me to let them do things to his mouth/teeth, put a crazy collar on him so that he wouldn't nip at his paw anymore, and finally told me it probably wasn't a hot spot and the only way to be rid of the growth was surgery.
Ug! Max is 15 years old! We will see what happens after his antibiotics and followup visit.
And yea, we pretty much had to hand over a dollar sign for every character typed in this post.....
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