Corn/Callus On Paw Or More serious?

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A few weeks ago I noticed my dog has two tiny white spots on her paw. The more obvious one is on the bottom of the middle pad of rear right paw. The spot is not raised, but when squeezed you can definitely feel it, especially at the bottom of the pad, you can feel a bump when you rub it. I assume she must feel it when she walks. The other white spot is on the side of one of her front right toes. I don't feel anything deeper when I squeeze that one. Pictures are attached.

Has anyone seen anything like this? I brought her to the vet and they think it is just a corn/callus. Bailey is going for a dental cleaning this week and I am highly considering removing the larger one on her rear paw and possibly the other one if there is any chance that it can be cancerous or grow larger. On the other hand, my dog does have a few medical problems like possible Cushing's disease, fur lose & dry skin, so I don't want to put her through a possible long healing process or as my mom would say "look for trouble" when these spots/lumps are harmless.

Just really not sure if I should remove them or not. I keep going back to when my mother's chihuahua had a lump on her leg and we were told it was nothing & leave it alone unless it grows. It did grow 6 months later and turned out to be cancer. Because it had grown they couldn't get clean margins and she had to go through chemo. :confused2:
 

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Randi, when Bailey goes in for her dental I would ask your vet to aspirate each of these little growths. That will tell you whether or not these growths are anything to be concerned about. If they are benign and are not bothering her they can be left alone....if they obviously start causing discomfort as she walks then you probably will want to have them removed.

Our Collie boy, Kinnon, has a different type of growth on the top outside edge of his right front paw. We had it aspirated, no cancerous or pre-cancerous cells found and it is not bothering him or changing in size so our vet agreed that leaving it alone was the best...Kinnon is 14 and putting him through any unnecessary surgery is not in his best interest. If it starts to grow or change in any way then we aspirate again.

I strongly suspect Bailey's little growths are nothing serious, but better to know for sure. :hugs

Trini
 
She's already going to be under anesthesia for the dental, so I'd hate to aspirate and then put her under anesthesia again to remove them, especially with her neurological issue. I will talk to the vet when I bring her in Friday. If it will be simple to remove, not invasive and she'll be fine in a few days, then I'd rather just take them off. Growths scare the heck out me.

If it's something that's going to take weeks to heal then I have a really tough decision to make. I don't want to put her through all that. I just don't know if her lack of fur growth & losing fur could also mean a slow healing process for a growth removal. UGH! My poor boo, it's always something.
 
Randi, when they aspirate a lump they look at the results immediately right at your vet's...they smear the aspirated cells on a slide and do the check. So, you have results literally within less than 5 minutes and that way you can make a decision immediately whether or not you want her to undergo lump removal while she has her dental. Dante had his dental the same day they did the tumor removal for his perianal adenoma.

Trini
 
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Oh I did not know that. I thought it had to be sent out. Okay, I will definitely bring it up when I drop her off.

But if anyone on the forum has seen something like this on their dog, would love to know more.
 
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