Ok, my fletcher gets them, he has 1 on each side of his body. I took him to the vet for it. They tried to get something out of it by squeezing it. They told me that if it was loose from the skin and moved around when I touched it, it was more than likely a cyst or even just a pimple. Well a few weeks later I looked at it, it was about the size of a pencil eraser, so I squeezed it to see if anything came out and sure enough, a bunch of white pus and then a trace of blood, like if you popped a large pimple. He didn't love me squeezing it too much but it did not really phase him when I was done. So I tried the other side and same thing.
They were just pimples or cysts/small boils under the skin that finally came to a head.
I can feel them still though just a little bit and want to try to squeeze the rest out of them and put some alcohol on it to help dry it out, keep out infection and heal up, but I feel bad that it hurts him when I squeeze it.
It looked just like the pics you posted.
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