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Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this ? I took my little fella to the vet for an ear infection problem last night, and it turns out he needs to go under a general to have his ear checked for a pollip. Anyway, as a passing commnet I mentioned that he had a little lump or wart like thing on his rear leg. The vet had a look at it and said it looks like a blocked hair follicle. I then mentioned, in passing, "its not a tumour or anything like that" which he then said, well, since he is going under a general for his ear next week, we may as well cut it out and send it off for tests.... Now, even though, im pretty sure its just a blocked hair follicle, as the vet didnt seem to alarmed about it, the fact that he suggested we should cut it out scared the daylights out of me. anyone have any experiece with this type of thing...

Hi Megzz, Our Chow Chow had/has a luxating patela. she had surgery at about 12 months of age and was quite stressful for us and her ! however, after 4 operations !!! yes, four operations ( long story ) she was fine.......until now.....its been about 2 1/2 years, and she has had no issue, until recently where she gets a slight limp in the same leg. The vet has told us that an issue has surfaced where the luxating patella is luxating outwards as opposed to inwards ( the surgery fixed the inwards movement ) apparently its a standard procedure where they "tie down" the joint from the outside to stop movement outwars... Anyway, upshot to all this, since her initiall surgery she has been on 3-6 monthly cartrophen injections, and we have had to move this to every two months. She gets a shot, and is fine, and we will be trying to manage her on catrophen to avoid surgery !! good Luck ! PS. My Aussie Terrier also has a luxating patela but is totally unbothered by it and hence we have decided not to have surgery. PPS. If the surgery is done correctly its not that bad, we had some complications which created unessary stress for us and her....