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Mammary tumours in spayed doe?

Mackers

Wise Old Thumper
Has anyone experienced mammary tumours in a spayed doe? Flora was spayed when she was less than a year old and is now 8. She doesn't like being handled so I handle her as little as possible, doing visual bum checks etc as she hops away from me. However, I picked her up today to clip her claws and she has numerous lumps (mammary tumours?) on almost every nipple. There's no discharge from the nipples, just a hard mass.

Her last vet MOT was in May and they weren't there then. Flora has continued to 'nest' every so often (perhaps once or twice a year), despite being spayed. Only a couple of months ago, she built the most enormous nest :shock:.

I shall book her into the vets next week and take it from there but just wondered if anyone had any experience of this in a spayed doe?
 
Is it possible that they are not tumours, but are an extended stage of a phantom pregnancy?

I have two bunnies who, after building nests and destroying them, would then effectively 'lactate' although they wouldn't lactate externally, just their nipples would swell as a nursing mum's would, and then after a couple of days they would return to normal, once all the hormones settled.
 
:? mmmm - I guess it could but it was at least a couple of months ago that she nested. Surely any signs of lactating would have subsided by now?? Whatever happens, I'm taking her to the vet next week but I'm really worried. If anything happened to Flora I think her brother, Parsnip, would just give up:cry:.
 
I just saw your reply on AMS's thread, but didn't want to hijack, but i'm glad it's looking positive for her and that it's not cancer :)
 
I just saw your reply on AMS's thread, but didn't want to hijack, but i'm glad it's looking positive for her and that it's not cancer :)

Thank you :D. I was hugely relived when Simon said he was pretty sure it was just the hormonal response you'd expect to see in an un-spayed doe. Although I am a bit concerned that she could have some uterine material floating around inside :shock:.
 
Yes, can imagine that might be a bit disconcerting, but better than the alternatives. Hopefully, if anything is there, it's teeny weeny and irrelevant other than the phantom pregnancies.
 
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