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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Kacy, I’m so happy to hear that Cowboy is doing better! I went through many lumps with the genetic mutant formerly known as Maggie d’Earest, and while they were mostly ignored, being the soft, fatty tissue type, one was removed when it approached the size of half an orange or small grapefruit and was accidentally punctured (she probably banged it into the side of the doggie door). Poor girl had to endure the nickname “Stitch” for months until her fur grew back in!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>She did have another large one abscess, but even on antibiotics it never cleared up, and was open and weepy for about the last two years she lived. The vet wouldn’t close it because of the constant draining – he was afraid it would just fill up again. So we just learned to clean it and live with it. Ugly, but she was my baby so it didn’t matter one bit. But since she had over a dozen noticeable lumps, the last three or four years of her life her nickname was “Lumpy”. Poor girl. Always teased. But always loved, and she knew (and abused) that for sure.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tim ‘n Puppies<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>