Lumps on Male Golden Retreiver

[vond236]

I have a 9yr old male golden.  He was diagnosed witha fatty cysts over several yrs ago and the vet said they were common.  Recently I've noticed that he's gotten more of these cysts all over his body.  But the main one that is concerning me now is one that I recently noticed on his bottom jaw - on the bone it seems.  I checked his teeth, they are fine, no abscess that I can see.  He eats like a horse and plays as usual.  I have him on Blue Wilderness Salmon Recipe dog food.  Should I be concerned and take him to the vet?  Lady Lake, NC

[Margot49]

Agree with Jerry.  Not uncommon for dogs to get fatty growths or rumors but I always err on the side of caution and at least get a needle aspiration done, ESP at that agr.

[Jerry_NJ]

Yes, please have a vet check him out.

We had a large Golden that developed a fat pocket on his chest at about 10 years of age.  It was large, at least as large as a woman's fist.  We had it removed and a biopsy was taken.  It showed some slow acting cancer and the vet could not be sure all of it was removed.  He did fine after the removal of the fat pocket for a couple more years when they came back in number and we cancerous.  We decided to put him down as chemo and radiation treatments would be expensive and hard on him.  Given he had also reached the life expectancy for Goldens added in our decision making.