Kidney Disease?

[dog geek]

So I met this Whippet about five months ago. Absolute sweetheart (aren't all Whippys?) and really rather elderly... I think when I asked I was told eleven years old.

Anyway - so I saw this Whippet again a month or two later, and whilst fussing over and patting it noticed that the twin bulges on its back over the arch of its loin were larger - I had noticed them last time, but it was a tiny bit on the heavy side and I had not thought much of it.

I asked the owner if she had thought about taking Wonderful Whippet to the vet to be checked and she was a bit defensive and laughed it off.

Anyway, a month ago I saw Wonderful Whippet again. It had obviously been to the vets, it had had skin tags removed from many places. The lumps over its kidneys were huge - I mean standing up from line of its back by the depth of my hand placed flat on its back. And they rectangular - I was a bit concerned when I saw them, and asked what the vet had said about them, but it was the babysitting grandmother who was there and she said as far as she was aware the vet hadn't said anything about the lumps on its back.

So I am still wondering... mainly because I had a cat that developed kidney cancer and it manifested as really big lumps over its kidneys. Are there other conditions that cause these strange "saddlepacks" over their kidneys?

[stormie]

If they're the same thing I'm thinking, I call them 'saddlebags' and are just distributions of fat. My Golden had them and they were quite obvious, but nothing serious.

[dog geek]

Awesome - that is a relief, after my cat developing the cancer over a month or two I was worried on the Wonderful Whippet's behalf.

Thankyou, Stormie!