Our 1 1/2 year old spayed Weimaraner developed a light swelling on top of the snout with circular tiny sheds ( almost not visible) which over night increased tremendously in size. The next morning a yellow bursting sore liquid build a crust on top making it a 4cm big sore. The vet prescribed antibiotics and something against the swelling. The thick wound started bleeding strongly the next morning and a crust started building over the now open wound. Meanwhile much smaller circular bumps started appearing one after another around the snout and one on top of her ear (6 in total). At the same time she got a rash inside both ears which has meanwhile calmed down. The vet asked us to come in again for additional tests and increased her antibiotic intake. The wound has become a bit dryer but otherwise recovery seens tremendously slow. Now we’re waiting on results and are feeling a bit lost. After the results the vet suggested a biopsy as a next step in case we haven’t found a cause for all of this by then. This all has happened within a week. I would share images but there doesn’t seem to be a function here. Please let me know your thoughts.

hi Yvette. The treatment is mentioned in the article.

Hi, my dog has the same lump on his snoat. He has been exploring in our local nature reserve. Can you let me know what treatment you used please.

Hi Diane. That’s such a great story, thanks for posting it!

This last summer (2022) my 7 y.o. male black lab suddenly presented with a top-of-the-nose sore which within a day became a ugly lesion. We paid extra to “jump the line” and slip him into the vet that very day. The vet called saying he wants to do a expensive tissue biopsy to confirm that our boy has skin cancer. It SEEMED like a granuloma but there were some odd things about it.

Since we don’t have the money for cancer treatment, much less for a $800 full anesthesia biopsy, we opted to bring him home with palliative treatment for the lesion and prepare ourselves for the worst.

Before we picked him up, I got online and found your article and was able to arm myself with the vocabulary and info needed to call the vet back and tell him to look up eosinophilic furunculosis: our dog had been under the deck just days earlier and came out wearing spider webs all over his head.

Our vet did his research and figured no one of had anything to lose treating this as furunculosis: and thank goodness because that is exactly what our dog had! His lesion shrank just as pictured and just as fast.

Without your posting we may have given our dog an invasive, disfiguring nose biopsy and spent hundreds of dollars we didn’t have. Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and time with the internet; you made a huge difference in our world.

Kind regards,

Diane
Michigan, USA

Sorry, you’ll need to ask a horse vet.