Hi, looking for some opinions...
This lump came up on my boy's ear last week, pretty much overnight, grew slightly after a couple of days to the size you see now.
After looking online i was thinking zymbal's gland tumour (but hoping it wasnt), also thought maybe an abscess but it hasn't opened, or a cyst which he's quite prone to. I took him to the vet on tuesday and she did a fine needle aspirate, some thick cheesy pus-like stuff came out on the needle so we sent that off to the lab to be looked at, it was inconclusive, no cancerous or tumour cells were found, it was more like cyst cells, but they said it couldnt be ruled out. The vet said the lump is quite free moving.
I just got him out of the cage to check him and there's a tiny bit of blood by his ear as you can see in the photo.
He is absolutely fine in himself, still eating, drinking and running around as normal, but i've noticed he's shaking his head sometimes and scratches his ear quite often, i thought this might be where the blood came from as his nails are quite sharp.. but im trying to think of anything except a ZGT
This lump came up on my boy's ear last week, pretty much overnight, grew slightly after a couple of days to the size you see now.
After looking online i was thinking zymbal's gland tumour (but hoping it wasnt), also thought maybe an abscess but it hasn't opened, or a cyst which he's quite prone to. I took him to the vet on tuesday and she did a fine needle aspirate, some thick cheesy pus-like stuff came out on the needle so we sent that off to the lab to be looked at, it was inconclusive, no cancerous or tumour cells were found, it was more like cyst cells, but they said it couldnt be ruled out. The vet said the lump is quite free moving.
I just got him out of the cage to check him and there's a tiny bit of blood by his ear as you can see in the photo.
He is absolutely fine in himself, still eating, drinking and running around as normal, but i've noticed he's shaking his head sometimes and scratches his ear quite often, i thought this might be where the blood came from as his nails are quite sharp.. but im trying to think of anything except a ZGT