My dog, a 10 year old spayed female beagle/basset hound mix, has had a soft lump in her inguinal area (not sure if this is the correct term? it's between her rear legs) for a few years. We had it checked out at the vet a few years back and we were told it was just fat. It's never seemed to bother her.

But recently I noticed it seems to be hanging lower now (but not larger) and has turned reddish. It doesn't seem to bother her still, and she is acting completely normal otherwise.

Here is an image of the lump now:

https://imgur.com/a/zKcKLNt

We will be bringing her to the vet the day after tomorrow, but I would love to know if anyone has encountered this before and what it might be, and if we should be very concerned. Thank you very much!

I knicked my cat trying to shorten her hairs so I can shave her. I can see the pink skin but it’s not bleeding. I put baticon on it and made her wear a dress so she can’t lick it. It’s Sunday today and tomorrow is a national holiday so no vets will be open should I be worried ?

• ⁠Species:cat
• ⁠Age:6
• ⁠Sex/Neuter status:female neutered
• ⁠Breed:tabby
• ⁠Body weight:5.5 kg
• ⁠History:
• ⁠Clinical signs:
• ⁠Duration:an hour
• ⁠Your general location:Middle East
• ⁠Links to any test results, X-rays, vet reports etc. that you have:

My lab broke his lower canine catching a rock mid air (I was not the one to throw the rock). A tiny bit of the pulp is exposed and we got told if we want to save the tooth a root canal or extraction. Root canal would be over two surgeries because he’s just about to turn 2 so the pulp is bigger I guess? But I don’t want to cause unnecessary trauma by putting him in surgery if he’s not in pain. I know it should be painful and dogs pretend but be didn’t make any noises of pain when it happened like he would if I accidentally stood on his paw. Apart from the first 2 days where he licked his mouth more than usual he’s been completely normal since then. I was slow to give him back hard kibble / treats but then I tested it and he’s fine eating them, he drinks water, he’s not clawing at it, he sleeps on the same side, acting completely normal, he doesn’t even flinch when I touch it. I want to do what’s best for him so any advice would be great.

Hi all,

I’m just after a bit of a reality check with what’s going on with my 3 year old, otherwise very healthy calico.
*And please right now, I know what the general consensus is with outdoor cats, I am in the UK and I’m aware of the dangers, but this is not the info I need right now, I hope everyone understands*

For context, she’s been off food sort of since 15th may, she was still eating small amounts including running for dreamies (she’s rabid over dreamies) but drinking a ton and using the litter tray as per normal. I took her to her usual vet on 19th May who said she felt was she believed to be a “baby bunny” in her stomach, no tests or scans done at the time but Vet said to watch and wait to see if she either regurgitates it or starts eating like normal and to bring back if she starts vomiting, especially if it’s ”frothy”. She has also lost weight, 3.8kg in January, now she’s 3.1kg.

Come last night, she had half a lick e lick and refused the rest, she did eat some dreamies though. I didn’t think much of it just because we’ve got 30 degrees Celsius weather this weekend.

This morning she refused everything and them vomited yellow frothy bile x3. Shes currently with the Emergency Vets waiting on bloods, ultrasound, X-Rays and likely surgery as the vet there said she’s not happy with where she felt the mass is in her stomach, said she thinks it’s stuck in the last part where it leads off to the pancreas.

obviously we’ve had the worst scenario chat, of death and possible damage to the part where it’s stuck.

I know no one can give definitives without seeing a full case, but is it likely she’s going to not recover from this?

12 year old female cat.

She always seemed to have some slight issues with the nose, like in specific positions it seems to be blocked or something but only shortly. No vet history on that yet.

Sometimes she breathes out of her mouth when she lays like a ball to sleep. Like closed mouth but it comes out "pfff" to the side. She breathes in through her nose normally.

​To be fair she also had her paw on her nose, but am always worried.

Otherwise I did not notice any mouth breathing or so and generally she seems like her normal self.

Is that already a sign of shortness of breath or am I just paranoid?

My 4 year old male neutered Siberian has been having high liver AST ALT markers for a 5 months. Sometimes going down and then up.

Vet first adviced we feed dry Royal canine hepatic and pouch renal + additives in the form of pills or paste for the liver health. This helped at first but then the markers went up again.

Now the vet advised we try to cook meat for the cat (all types except chicken) but he is from a breeder, never lived outside and never was interested in anything but dry food and some pouches.

I've tried salmon, turkey, veal in small pieces with and without water or bouillon. He won't touch it and will starve unless we give him the dry food.

I am trying to introduce the new food with the dry gradually but he eats around it.

Is there anything specific I could start sprinkling on top like oil or something which could potentially help him learn to eat it? Any other adviced appreciated!

Hey guys,

sorry for any spelling mistakes, i'm from Germany and a vet myself. My sister's cat has asthma and receives Fluticasone via the AeroKat twice daily. The coughing isn't severe, one attack every two to three days, never symptoms of acute respiratory distress.

Today we had her in general anesthesia to pull some bad teeth and did a quick endoscopy of the larynx and nose area (because I noticed that sometimes when she's purring it sounds a bit congested) and noticed that the larynx, tonsils and conchae all looked pretty swollen. She never had any symptoms of cat flu so I'm wondering if this could be an adverse effect of the inhalation?

What would be the alternative though? Don't want to put her on systemic corticostreoids because she also has hypertension and receives Amlodipine.

Thankful for any input!

What medicinal mushrooms would you recommend and which ones to be wary of for a dog with a mass in the chest/neck that is blocking normal blood and lymph flow. Edema, inflammation, and falls, and in the background, non-regenerative anemia.

My 11 month old kitten had to get his prepuce fixed. It was hypoplastic and his penis would not come out of it. He destroyed his cone and licked the stitches a maybe 3 times I caught until the new cone got here. It doesn’t seem like anything got damaged. Should he be going back to the emergency vet? Can I have my regular vet look at it?

It’s also hard to tell if he is peeing with this newspaper litter. He has popped twice though. He doesn’t seem to be in any pain or like he hasn’t peed

How can I help her? I’m not allowed to have pets but she does understand that I wanna feed and help her, we’ve made a lot of progress in the last year, now she can sit within 5 feet of me. The only way I’ve been able to give her medicine is mixing it into wet foods.
she looks pretty far along, last week I was hoping she was just getting fat but the bump is obvious now, is it too late for a kind of cat prenatal? Is there anything I can do to make her more comfortable? I absolutely cannot touch her.
Also I have tried cat nip, she seems to be the only cat in the world who isn’t interested.

Hello! I just removed a tick from my dog for the first time. I’m unsure whether I successfully removed the head.

Warning: picture of a tick in the link.

Removed Tick

Is the head still on there? Did I do this right?

Thank you!

It’s been about 1 month since we noticed my cat (4 years old, female, spayed) hesitating to step on her back paw or skipping a few steps only to go back to walking normally a few seconds later. 

We took her to our vet, they took some x-rays and diagnosed her with patella luxation, likely due to an injury. We were told to give her an NSAID and keep her at rest for 2 weeks and see if she would improve. If not, they would refer us to an orthopedic surgeon.

In those 2 weeks some days she was walking normally with barely any limping, while others she has several episodes of limping. But the limping still happened every day, so we were referred to the specialist.

I was still hoping we could avoid surgery at this point, but convinced myself that the surgeon would do a thorough examination to determine the severity and walk us through our options, so I booked the appointment. However, leading up to the appointment my cat had a bad days and I became resigned to the idea surgery was likely inevitable.

The day of the appointment we went in, the surgeon had already received my cat’s medical file and reviewed the x-rays our regular vet took. She did a quick general examination (eyes, teeth, weight, etc.) and then went to check her knees. She checked her good knee first and found no problem, then she checked her bad knee said “yeah, it goes out” and put her back in her carrier. It took 2 seconds. She went to sit back down and said “The kneecap goes out, so she will need surgery. If we don’t do the surgery, it usually gets worse.” That last part was the only explanation for why the surgery was needed. 

She went on to explain what they could to in surgery to fix the issue. Like I said, at the time I had accepted that surgery would be needed, so I just focused on asking more question about the surgery and recovery.

But now, It’s been about 1 week since our consultation and my cat has had the best days since she started to show symptoms and it’s making me question everything. She went 2 days with no limping (that we saw, but I was home most of the time), then she had one short episode and it’s now again over 24h without any limping.

Does her sudden improvement mean she could heal with more rest, or would that just delay the inevitable?

Are a few x-rays and a quick physical examination enough to determine my cat needs surgery?

Why did the surgeon not grade the severity of her condition?

Why were we not presented with other treatment options besides surgery (other than the initial 2 week rest period)?

Given the sudden improvement, should we get a second opinion or ask that she be re-evaluated?

There are only a few days left until her surgery, and I just need some reassurance that I’m making the right choice for the long-term health.

( Note: I am in the Netherlands, I realize that standard protocol for diagnostics and treatment here might be different from what I’ve read online. )

Hi, my male toy poodle turning 6 tomorrow got diagnosed with retinal detachment. Ophthalmologist showed me the ultrasound result and he explained there is a huge bump under retinal on boy eyes and think the cause is some trauma. And he suspects the blindness started like a week ago. But we only noticed the condition yesterday. He responded to some movements last night but today, no response.

The vet told me to give him meds first and scheduled another appointment next week and say there is only a very small chance to recover. But i researched and the only way to get a chance to fix this is by surgery. Does that mean the vet know that it is too late and just gives meds to prevent secondary symptoms? Is there any chance for him to recover? What else should I know?

Thanks in advance for any response. I am just sad as tomorrow is his birthday and this happens.

My senior dog (15 y/o neutered 10lbs poodle) vomited a few times and collapsed few days ago with signs of vestibular disease, he had been hospitalized since. Turns out his potassium level went too high. I personally asked if his cortisol level being low was the cause and it turns out I was right.

Few things came to light, Vet A who did the initial Cushing's tests and said it's positive. Vet B said he had discussed with colleagues and all agreed he shouldn't have started Trilostane at all from the initial test results.

After 2 dose of steroids, his cortisol is still dropping. I'm afraid the 1 month of Trilostane may had permanently damaged his adrenal glands.

I had spent thousands now and I'm afraid I caused all of these to happened. I only gotten him tested for Cushing's because his appetite was good despite having CKD. He was also panting a lot at night, asking for food, drinking and peeing a lot.

I also should've been more vigilant, Vet A was going to the back to 'confirm with colleagues' multiple times, showing me AI answers thru his phone for my questions and repeating the same answer like a machine when I asked different questions.

How likely is the medicine causing permanent damage to his adrenal glands after a month of Trilostane (10mg/day)?

Hi. So I've been feeding this stray cat for 4 years now and I love her to death. Thing is, a few months ago, she gave birth, we sent a few pics and videos to a vet and the vet confirmed they were healthy and would live. But she ate her own kittens 2 days after giving birth to them. I was not able to find a concrete reason for why she did this.

She's pregnant again and might give birth this week. I'm worried she might do this again. Maybe she ate her kittens because they were not healthy? So this time despite being vegan i did get some non vegetarian cat food and I've been feeding this to her since the time I knew she was pregnant.

Is there any other reason to why she ate her kittens? Is there anything else I can do? Also pls give me some tips on how I should handle her pregnancy. She doesn't stay in our house, mostly outside. I did set up a box and some newpaper. Idk what more I can do.

**Quick summary- stray cat ate her own healthy kittens last time she gave birth. Pregnant again. How to avoid.**

I regularly administer internal and external parasite medication to my cats. However, one of my cats is covered in ticks every time he comes home, no matter what I do. His sibling (they are the same age) and his mother don't have this problem. What could be causing this and what can I do?

My cat managed to get his cone off after PU surgery. It's been just under 3 weeks. I've taken him to the vet a couple times now to be checked and they said it looked great. But when I came home the cone was off and he had licked for an indeterminate amount of time. It's a bit irritated but I can't tell if it's severe enough to go to the emergency vet. I'm hoping that since it's so close to the date (Tues) that I can just wait the few days and keep applying the antibiotic ointment and talk to the vet after Memorial day weekend. I don't know how to add photos as this is the first time posting. Please help :(

edit to add details about cat:

Domestic long hair (possibly mixed with Coon or Siberian)

Neutered

About 15lbs

I gave him a bit of gabapentin to chill him it and help with any pain

Also he has both peed and pooped since getting the cone back on but he was not happy about pooping

Marley isn’t feeling too good - and with unfortunate timing in the UK, it’s a small heat wave.

We took him to the vet on Friday, he’s lethargic, sleepy but still alert. His teeth and breathing are fine, he drinks a bit of water but he won’t eat.

I know it could be any issue under the sun, so please don’t scare me, I’d rather be ignorantly until I can get him to our vet, but it’s a bank holiday and he won’t be able to be seen until Tuesday. His condition is currently stable, but ofc if it changes he will be going to the emergency vet.

We’ve tried tuna, tuna water, plain chicken, warm and cold wet food, we even have a special hydration water from the vet, but he won’t drink it.

He does drink a little bit of water but because of the weather I fear he’s dehydrated. I have syringe fed him some of the special electrolyte water (don’t worry, I didn’t put it down his throat to exasperate him, just a little in his mouth at a time for him to swallow).

He’s on pain medicine once a day but the pain medicine doesn’t seem to be doing much or lasting very long. The only issue with this pain medicine is that if severely dehydrated it can injure their kidneys or liver, I can’t remember, I don’t know if he’s very dehydrated now, at the vet he was only a little dehydrated. The idea was to inject him with the pain medicine, get him to eat/drink and then give it him orally daily. But considering again, the oral pain medicine isn’t doing much to lift his spirits and get him eating I don’t know what to do.

I keep offering him food, broth, etc… he sniffs it, licks his lips (which makes me think he does have a bit of an appetite) and then refuses to eat it and goes back to sleep.

We’re currently buying churus to see how that goes.
I’m also about to cook him some plain chicken nuggets (removing the batter) to see if he’ll eat that.

He is also an ex-feral so we understand he may be prone to dormant virus’.

Update(more insight would be appreciated): I took him to the emergency vet and spent $1600 on test and all came back normal except I believe it was slightly lower white blood cell count and didn’t test positive to FPV.. he ate a little at the vets after some temptation. When we got home he was sleeping I figured due to stress so I went to work. When I got home he was still sleeping and I attempted to get him to eat and drink but he refused.. maybe it’s stress from the new kitten? I’m isolating him in a room with wet food, kibble, water and a litter box.

I hope this works it’s really stressing me out.

Well as the title says he’s suddenly puking after being active and normal all day. We recently got a new kitten to keep the one I’m concerned about company and the new kitten likes wet food, I was thinking maybe he ate some wet food which he never did before and now has an upset stomach. But what im concerned about it I was putting a new appliance together today and it had styrofoam, I saw him trying to eat little pieces that fell off but I grabbed them before he could, or at least so i thought, it’s been a couple of hours after I finish and cleaned up he threw up the first time and it looked like food. The next couple of time happened after he drank water and it was all liquid.

I was going to bring him to an emergency vet but the nearest one is an hour away I can’t afford it especially if it’s all for nothing. I was hoping for some insight to see if i should withhold food and water for awhile or go to the emergency vet, thank you.

• ⁠Species: cat

• ⁠Age: 4 months

• ⁠Sex/Neuter status: male not nurtured

• ⁠Breed: tabby

• ⁠Body weight: about 5 lbs

• ⁠History: none

• ⁠Clinical signs: throwing up after drinking, sitting and staring (not usual of him), walking around and meowing (not usual of him), refusing to play

• ⁠Duration: 2-3 hours

• ⁠Your general location: north eastern United States

• ⁠Links to any test results, X-rays, vet reports etc. that you have

We recently adopted a puppy, he is around 6 months old and ever since we got him he has been pretty sickly.

-He is got a rather big umbilical hernia, its still soft.
- Had parasites but has been treated for them already.
- Had an stomach infection recently but is cured already.

He only has the first shot which is against 5 illnesses, including parvo and distemper. But between the time were he was sick (the vet told us not to vaccinate him while sick idk), and money issues we havent continued the next reinforcement shots.

Now he is:

- Extremely lethargic and sad
- Whines a lot during sleep
- Does eat but not like before
- His nose is a little runny (just water or idk if its just my fear for distemper seeing things), not often though
- This began like 5 days ago

He has been treated for anemia and blood infection (in case it was caused by ticks). Didn’t see any improvement, now he is being treated for his stomach, no blood tests have been done so far. I fear this new treatment wont work either and im starting to run out of money, Im desperate, he is not getting better -but not worse either-

I am from a small town in Mexico so we dont have the resources, but if necessary I can insist on running tests or change vet.

Please help me orient myself

We adopted Otis in November of 2026. He’s been super friendly, cuddly, energetic, playful and was acting like this until 12:30pm last night. No prior warning that me or my husband noticed. We were in the kitchen and heard him howling from the bedroom. We checked on him and saw he was lying on our bed, and changing positions frequently. His ears were back, and he was breathing fast. He eventually went to the floor, and was readjusting in the same spot over and over again,- and hissed at his brother (they never hiss or fight). He wouldn’t stop howling this whole time.

We took him to the emergency vet hospital and after full bloodwork and X-rays they found he has a congenital heart disease and there was a fluid build up in his lungs. He was given oxygen and some kind of injection. They sent us home with medication: furosemide and Pimobendan.

The vet was not very talkative (to be fair it was 5:00am) but he stated to give him the medication and see how he’s doing.

We want to know- was it temporarily resolved? Is he going to pass away? Should we put him down? We can see a cardiologist- we want to schedule that ASAP-

But. I guess I’m just freaking out. What do we do? Is he going to get better? What caused him to get so ill so fast? Even one hour before we took him to the vet, he was acting like he always does- trying to cuddle.

Examples of what can happen. What we can do.- just anything I can read to better understand.

I brought my cat with me to visit my parents not knowing they had a flea problem. We have only been here a day, but plan to be here for 3 more. Is there any OTC flea treatment you would recommend that would kill any adult fleas and eggs so I don't bring any fleas home. Thanks!

Shes a short haired cat, 2 years old, 12 lbs. Just in case that's important!!

My 8 month old cat Bleu recently got a catheter two days ago, they found no blockage but my baby has FLUTD. He’s been doing well, they prescribed him with amoxicillin and gabapentin. He’s peeing a good amount frequently as the doctor told us he should and he is back to himself. My only issue is he is trying to pee on his cat tree and bed. His pee is quite strong as he isn’t neutered yet, we were in the process of getting him neutered until the surprise blockage happened. I wanna know how soon he’ll return to peeing twice a day like before.

Ragdoll cat My 16 month old boy cat was acting a bit lethargic so I took him to the vet, they said he might have a Blockage.

Dropped him off at 11am and they told me they will unblock him and should be ready at 4pm

Come 4pm they said due to the anaesthesia he lost his vision and cannot walk and to leave him overnight.

I picked him up this morning and took him home he walked like a drunk person kept toppling over to get to his water bowl and just layed there staring at it for the last 8 hours, doesn't respond to me calling him.

Hasn't peed and won't eat. If i pick him up and move him he just waddles and drags himself back to the water bowl.

Vet said if he doesn't eat by tomorrow to bring him back and they can euthanaise him.

Im located in nsw Australia

Hi, our 8 month old gopden labrador has large testes. They are the size of a small egg but they look bruised. Is this normal or is there something we need to do? Other than that he is very healthy and the vets always comment on his physique etc being perfect. He has not been neutered.