Horsefeathers! Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Perry (one of my Standards) had an abscess on his side a year or two ago. He has a lot of hair, so it's not hard to miss a sore unless it's bleeding or he's fussing with it. Anyway, I got it fixed up. Since then, he's gotten a couple of other sores in the same spot. We can't figure anything he's snagging himself on or how he's hurting himself to make a sore, but these spots occur in the same place. I just opened one up tonight and had to clip the hair around it, drain it (or basically let it drain) and clean it. There's now a weeping hole in his side. I'm sure that will heal fine since it's all cleaned out and there's no hair or debris to get in it. I glopped a heap of Neosporin on it. I'm just curious to find out if anyone has any idea why a sore or abscess would keep popping up in the same spot. When it heals, it always appears 100% healed, no scar, no redness, no lump, nothing. I caught this thing tonight, I think, just in time before it would have required a vet visit. I'm going to ask the vet about it tomorrow, anyway, but I was also wondering if anyone here might have some kind of insight or experience. Here are pictures. Sorry for the photo quality. I'm not having much luck today taking close up photos, but you can make out the hole in the center. [img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0YAD9AgUf9xEhJNSjCczJkKW0nIpJXV8wy4RrLziEYcah!q37wGSLEZFLjF7qQXIOfqYBvNHPsCQQhXoi2b5m5Txn4fUaHOkyu7ynJ56pU9JmqvE3Hn4HMzdGIDJo9JVI!7TJqSp!RvLXcnkCTW96aQ/Perry%20sore.jpg?dc=4675546746249118645[/img] [img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0YQAAADYfsCYhJNSjCczJkB6RQpymG6TIM1ycpxAexdyNKVPzLTYzTg6kDZ66qDIDpW3qK6FbRK2oK5yfyFM!otAdrYBvS3OvOhkPOR7FreGznhhBgkYBZnFJAc2hPBi!3y7WsnLzudsDOA2dCwPxhg/Perry%20sore1.jpg?dc=4675546746251256584[/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESSlover Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 It looks like a zit.. :lol: Hope Perry feels better soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrless Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 it could be a hot spot-Baxter has an abrasion from a hot spot in the same place which he managed to get the scab off of and it is bleeding again. i did the same thing with peroxide and neosporin. it looks bloody awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefeathers! Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 DivOb, you pretty much hit it. The vet is thinking cyst or something, so he'd like to go in and remove that area and send it to the lab. We'll probably do that this week before it heals all the way up. After talking to him about it, it made perfect sense and I felt kind of stupid for not even considering that before. :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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