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>my sugar is a 5 1/2 year old sable that has swelling on her right side!
>earlier my husband accidently stepped on her pretty hard!  she is
>scratching so bad that she is causing sores!
 
Dear X:
 
I am not following this exactly - is she scratching the lump itself?
 
just to be on the safe side, I'm going to recommend a vet visit.  It may
be a skin tumor, or it may be what we call a seroma - where you have a
lot of blood pour into a area from a trauma, and then it clots and you
end up with a pocket of serum.
 
However, if she is scratching like the devil at it, sometimes it is better
to just take it off.
 
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
[Posted in FML issue 3844]