How can you tell if your dog has a tumor ?

my mom noticed a lump on my dog like near his chest kind of in the middle more to the upper right

the dog is in no pain at all

he sleeps he eats ALOT! he runs he plays hes a normal dog just that one lump is REALLY bothering us were very scared and dont know what it is



its not red or any color just his normal skin and normal fur with that lump under him

hes gonna be 9 years old never once had any health problems he gose to normal check ups every year eveything is always 100% well his only problem is asthma but the vet said dont worry about it unless it happens many times a day



so anyway what could this be ? could it be a tumor or something eles ?How can you tell if your dog has a tumor ?
Basically , you can't tell for sure if your dog does have a tumor . i reccomend you see a vet . its probably just a birth defect that decided to just show up now . see a vet to confirm it .How can you tell if your dog has a tumor ?
It could be a tumor or it could be just a fatty mass you should have it checked by the vet to make sure.
my dog has the same thing, but it's on her neck. when i had it checked out, it ended up being cancer, she has stage 5 lymphoma (the worse stage)

PLEASE get it checked out asap
I would just bring him/her to the vet and get him/her examined.
GO TO THE VET!!!! WHY ASK RANDOM PEOPLE!!!its robably just a muscle



ANGORA you can't catch tumors DAR
VET. you cant take chances with these things if you really love your pet. plus he deserves a proper check up. c'mon :)
It could be a lipoma or a malignancy. You need to take your dog to the vet who will probably do a fine needle aspirate of the lump.



At his age is is probably only a lipoma but it doesn't pay to take a wait and see attitude with lumps, especially with older dogs.
depends on where you live but, it is very likely that you are going to have



at least... LEAST one vet in your town :)
fatty tumor?
i looked that up because my dog began developing tumor like lumps. i now believe it is some form of cancer because it keeps spreading and he has developed 3 others. :( he's really old though so i guess these things happen. anyways on my search i found a common growth of benign tissue called lypoma... or lipoma. one of the two. it is supposedly common in older dogs and causes them no pain. i would say look into that and try to make some comparisons.
go to the vet now. immediately.



my heart just totally sank when i read that.

that exact thing happened to my dog and it turned out she had cancer. don't waste time and go to the vet asap. it was too late for my dog, so don't let it get too late for you.



my dog got two giant lumps in her throat, then it spread and she got lumps in her chest aswell. she acted pretty normal other than sleeping more. and yes, the lumps were under the skin, like the way you have described. my dog had no previous health trouble either which is why it was such a shock. my dog died of her cancer and i never got over it. i dont want anybody else to have to go through what i did when i lost my dog to something as cruel as cancer, please just go to the vet and get it looked at. it sounds exactly like my dog, and that turned out to be cancer. please please please just take your dog to the vet. immediately.
He can be taken to the veterinarian %26amp; they can draw some cells out of the lump with a needle. They can evaluate the sample under a microscope to determine what is contained in the lump. This will help them decide what course of action to take (ex, remove the lump surgically vs. leaving it be). Also the size of the lump in addition to how fast it may be growing will help them, too.
Take him to a vet to find out. You won't ever know till they know for sure.
My dog had two kinds of tumors. A ';fatty'; tumor which is common in older dogs, or a cancerous tumors. The sooner you go in, the better the chances are that your dog will be healthy :)
take your dog to the vets now, i have a staffie, she has just had a cancerous lump removed from under her front leg, she is ok but the worry that you go through is heart breaking my dog has been checked by the vet on a regular basis but never the less these things happen, but still it is heart breaking to watch them go through this, please do your dog a favor and take him/her to the vet then at least you will know for sure and at least you will then be able to deal with this, i hope that everything goes alright for both of you
Yes, it is. My dog had that as well before it passed away.
You can tell by taking him to a vet.
Yes, go to the vet NOW. They will suck liquid out of it with a needle. They can test for cancer. You'll find out in a day or two (I did). If found early, it can be treated and your doggy could be fine.



I adopted an awesome dog from a shelter. Went to the local pet store. The owner was petting him and noticed a lump on his neck. He said, ';Take him to the vet right now.'; I took him. They biopsied the lump. He had cancer. But because he was from a shelter, they don't know how long the lump was there, because no one ever noticed it. They xrayed him and his body was full of cancer. But if it's caught early enough, it's treatable. Good Luck.
your vet can take an xray