Lump On Head?

[Sharna3]

Hi all,

My 13wk old Mastiff pup has developed a lump on his head - its quite hard and large, probably the size of a 10 cent coin in diameter and just as high; it came up yesterday afternoon fairly suddenly - we thought he must have whacked his head on something (he's constantly forgetting that he's growing and keeps trying to fit under tables etc. that he just can't anymore) and that the lump was an 'egg'.

But its still there this morning - same size - has anyone had experience with this kind of thing??

[APBT]

could be anything at the moment, give it a few days and see how it grows ect. if it dosent get bloody/pussy then it should be ok.

[WreckitWhippet]

It could well be that he's bumped his ociput. We expereinced this with a pointer baby and weren't so lucky, it came up as a big lump and we ended up draining it with a needle, quite a few times before it went down.

Sway expereinced the same thing at almost the same time, she took a different course of action with hers, that I think involved her chiro or the greyhound man.

Do you have any pics ?

[Sharna3]

Hi

"It could well be that he's bumped his ociput. We expereinced this with a pointer baby and weren't so lucky, it came up as a big lump and we ended up draining it with a needle, quite a few times before it went down.

Sway expereinced the same thing at almost the same time, she took a different course of action with hers, that I think involved her chiro or the greyhound man.

Do you have any pics ?"

No, no photo's but I plan to take some when I get home from work (im there now) if the lump hasn't gone down. Should I call the vet or give it a couple of days???

[Sharna3]

Well,

the lump was still there in the afternoon so off to the vet we went - we're lucky that we have a really great vet. Rob (vet) advised it was 99% sure a bump to the head and to just keep an eye on it, could take 3-4 weeks to go down, but so long as it doesn't grow or start discharging, all good... so thankfully alls well that ends well :-)