I_am_plankton
01-28-2008, 10:02 AM
I always check my hamsters daily or every 2 days for lumps and bumps, cuts and anything else out of the norm.
I was cleaning Felix out and had him in the downstairs toilet, when I turned him over to check his underside and there it was, a big pink mass near his armpit (which I have been told in the past is very common with dwarf hams). It definately wasn't there on Saturday because I checked him thoroughly. The poor mite bit me when I touched it, it must be a bit painful.
The vet says that there is nothing that can be done, since we have tried Baytril in the past on tumours and it actually makes things worse rather than improves anything. We are going to leave it and see how he goes, it is more than likely benign apparently but then he said that about Orchid's tumours and she developed 4 of them in the space of 2 weeks!
Felix isn't that old, I was told around 6 months when I had him, so would make him roughly 13/14 months old now, but of course he might be older than that. I don't seem to have much luck with hamsters and illnesses, they always seem to get ill of something, be it tumours, pyometra, skin diseases etc :(
I wonder whether it is because he is a hybrid and they tend to have dI always check my hamsters daily or every 2 days for lumps and bumps, cuts and anything else out of the norm.
I was cleaning Felix out and had him in the downstairs toilet, when I turned him over to check his underside and there it was, a big pink mass near his armpit (which I have been told in the past is very common with dwarf hams). It definately wasn't there on Saturday because I checked him thoroughly. The poor mite bit me when I touched it, it must be a bit painful.
The vet says that there is nothing that can be done, since we have tried Baytril in the past on tumours and it actually makes things worse rather than improves anything. We are going to leave it and see how he goes, it is more than likely benign apparently but then he said that about Orchid's tumours and she developed 4 of them in the space of 2 weeks!
Felix isn't that old, I was told around 6 months when I had him, so would make him roughly 13/14 months old now, but of course he might be older than that. I don't seem to have much luck with hamsters and illnesses, they always seem to get ill of something, be it tumours, pyometra, skin diseases etc :(
I wonder whether it is because he is a hybrid and they tend to have dI always check my hamsters daily or every 2 days for lumps and bumps, cuts and anything else out of the norm.