Second, any lump that persists should be checked by a vet. This is especially true with a young dog--you're still trying to get a feel for this pooch. For instance, it took me 1.5 years to really find out that my rat terrier had a sensitive tummy and would get the runs with food switches (he didn't have giardia or some other infection). But you don't know that until you check. That's also a really bizarre place to have a tumor develop. That said, rat terriers in particular put their nose into all sorts of stuff. And terriers don't back down. So you could have a bee sting, porcupine quills, a bite from another dog or vermin (a bite in a fox's warren for instance) where a young rat terrier is too feckless to recognize "this is a dumb idea for me to stick my nose in here" but instead just charges ahead. Afterall, the Decker line was developed in part to hunt....bears! This is a line of rat terriers that couldn't spell "fear" if you spotted it the "f", the "e" and the "a" (and we all know dogs can say "r" as in "ruff!").
So get it checked out. But I'm going to be shocked if it's a tumor.
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Posted on January 8th 2009 in bomisasia.com edit
