I'm posting this as a helpful tip so if this happens to someone else, they don't go into a panic when they see a lump.  (like I did yesterday! Shout out to Diane for answering my distress email!)

I have posted many times, I never worry about Comet's good remaining leg but much to my surprise I guess the hopping for years on end can take a little toll.  She rapidly developed a cyst that I noticed yesterday.  I did notice it a couple of months ago, but I thought a small ant bit her since the bump went down by the next day.  I was cheering because I didn't rush her to the vet and it went away on its own within 24 hours. But then it came back yesterday.

It's a blood filled steril cyst (or that's what the vet thinks).  He ruled out a foxtail and concluded it was probably from the pressure or bacteria on the bottom of her paw and it pushed out on the top of her paw almost between her toes. We don't know for sure but he took a needle to it and it seemed to be just syrupy blood with no puss.  She's on antibiotics anyway for her neck disc infection – so nothing was done to it except the lancing. 

It doesn't seem to hurt her at all.  If it doesn't go down, which it hasn't today – we'll have it washed but I hate to put her under.

And now for the pics which was taken after the lancing so it is a bit smaller:

The last one is my precious angel sleeping under my desk this morning – you can see the sore. 

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