It's just a condition of getting older, not just Yorkies other breeds get them too.
They are usually just lipomas or cysts, occassionally warts, but they are all benign as your vet said.
The ones that burst are usually cysts.
You mustn't tie them off.
I know people sometimes do that to themselves with skin tags, but those are a completely different thing.
If one does burst, the best thing to do is to gently bathe it with a little luke warm salt water, a teaspoon dissolved in a pint, to remove any of the white lardy stuff that is coming out.
Sometimes it will then heal over completely, though sometimes you may get another one growing in the same spot & discharging the white fat a little again through the pore opening. Just bathe it off so it doesn't grow too big again.
xx
Meggie |