 Please Read This..
Please have it checked out. I don't want to alarm you and I'm sure that with your pup it's nothing bad but we just lost our 10 year old Yorkie with what started as his licking his paw. Turned out he has a mass cell tumor in his foot pad. Initially the vet thought he must have stepped on something and that it may have been glass or a splinter, but after operating to remove what he thought was in there, they found a lot of abnormal cells. The biopsy came back as a stagee III tumor. They removed the tumor etc. during the biopsy but couldn't get clear margins and within months it came back very aggressively. We were going through pre-testing to make sure it did not spread anywhere before we had his leg amputated but we weren't able to follow through with anymore treatment as it spread to his liver. We had to put him down last Friday. Again, I'm not trying to scare you, but something inocent for us turned out to be devestating. Have the vet look. Mass Cell tumors are common but usually on the trunks of the body. Ours was very rare. Our vet of 30 years had never seen it and neither had any of the oncologists including Penn Univ. had ever seen it. I just don't want to see what happened to us and our boy happen to someone else. I hope he is alright. Elaine |