And Marie said : >4) I noticed Giesela had a red "spot" (spider bite? looked like a small, >shallow puncture) near her shoulder. Now it has a little scab that sort of >sticks up. If you feel it it feels "attached" fairly deep. My dear Guiniviere had two bumps, both on her neck. I would have described them exactly as you have described Giesela's lesion. On of my vets took a plug, and diagnoses them as mast cell tumors. Vets, please correct me, but I thought these types of tumors, in the skin, are easily treated by excision. The problem is, what part of metastasy does a given tumor represent - is it one of many? Are others internal? what else is affected? is it metastasizing? A. [Posted in FML issue 1977]