Hi - I've viewed plenty of posts about warts but most are relating to older cocker dogs and/or warts on the body.
My 12 month old male developed a white wart three weeks ago which is growing larger. It's on his lower 'lip' area and can only been seen when he's panting. It's opened up now and looks like a cabbage and is white with slight pink tinge to the base of it. My vet said last Monday, don't worry about it unless it gets infected (it will smell), he said it's common in young dogs and it will go after 6 months or so.
Over the weekend, I believed it had started to smell bad so visited the vet today. My usual vet's wife is due to give birth so there was a locum (he'll be off for two weeks). She said he has to go under GA, have it cut out then a biopsy performed to find out exactly what it is. Right. I balked at this and then she admitted it didn't smell, didn't look inflamed and his temperature was normal so unlikely there's an infection. But she was worried about the growing size of it - it's this size
and if he bit into it overnight or weekend, it would be problematic due to bleeding.
Anyway to cut to the chase, has anyone else had a young dog with this? He has no other warts on his body and he's miserable not being allowed to play with his friends (was told it's viral).
