So i was brushing Sierra last night and lifted her tail to brush under it and found a 4-5mm round hard thing sticking out her anus, right near the hole, i of course freaked the hell out thinking the worst and i still am. We have a vet apt in the morning to have it looked at.

Sorry for the gross pics.

Keep good thoughts for her that its nothing major, poor girl has been through enough

Polyps, and their successors, are usually fleshy, I think. Possibly something she ingested that didn't get fully expelled? Keeping positive thoughts for a big nothing.

Hi jbealer!

I'm thinking maybe impacted/inflamed/infected anal glands? It's the only thing I can think of in that area. Definitely something that would require veterinary intervention, but it's fixable =D.

Wishing your fur baby well!

Keep us updated!

I would post the picture with a warning. It could help someone out in the future that might run into the same thing so have a picture and an answer as to what it is when you find out. Hopefully nothing serious. Such an awkward area. Poor girl.

hmmm...do dogs get hemorrhoids? Those can get clots.

I'm going to offer a WAG and say that that looks like a light coloured Tick to me. Even after I blew the picture way up I couldn't get the definition I wanted but in that bottom picture - due north of the 'body' looks to be a tick's head.

My imagery of the anal glands would put the further inside the anus. Well, WebMD shows them to be at the 4 and 8 o'clock positions and I see your "bump" to be at about the 6 o'clock position.

I won't even get into the "Do dogs have hemorrhoids?" Some sites say "No!" and other sites say that they need to be taken care of quickly ...

Now, please get your vet to tell us what we're looking at.

Hmmmz...yea...didn't see the pictures before...

I would guess just a general abscess? Doesn't seem like anal gland problems. I'm sure it will be drained/excised and that will be the end of that...=D

Let us know!

Showed it tho husband. He said could be hemorrhoid or polyp.

Now that I've seen it I am guessing hemorrhoid. Would probably go away with preparation H and save you the vet costs.

Well, i forget what she called it BUT it could either be cancerous or not, SOOOOOOO its coming off next Tue. and we will send it for checking. i kind of space things like that once we start talking surgery, i will know for sure when the results come back.
Keep baby girl in your thoughts please.

Probably some sort of polyp then (there are a variety, each with a different descriptive name that, at the moment my brain is unable to retrieve...on muscle relaxant, which severely also relaxes the brain ) I had one removed from way up in my colon when I was 50, had high grade dysplasia. Bought me a colonoscopy at 1, 3, 5 and every t years after that. Nothing since. Hopefully, and most likely, even if it is a cancer, it will be totally gone with removal.

So sorry you have to go through all this crap with little girl Will be keeping you in mind.

Oh, Sierra.
Hoping for the best.
You have gone through the wringer.

Sorry that it turned out to be a polyp - personally, even though it's gross, I'd have settled for a tick.

Good luck Miss Sierra, hoping this is it for this girl <3

oh my goodness i hope its nothing bad. poor Sierra, get well soon, seen positive energy your way.

thanks everyone, She is fine as far as behavior goes she has no idea something is wrong. Just sucks all 3 dogs had surgery this year and hers on tue will be exactly 1 yr from her 2nd knee

Surgery tomorrow, keep Sierra in your thoughts please

I'm thinking of you both and wishing for a speedy recovery!

Sierra was up first this morning, i got the call around 10am she was done and awake, could hear her crying in the background
i am home with her now, she is still really out of it and will not drink, so no food. now we wait for the test.
thanks for keeping her in your thoughts everyone

Get better, Sierra.
We are counting on you!

get well soon, Sierra. and sends a big hug to all of you.

Sierra looks to be healing well, we have a check up on wed and hope to have tests back this week telling us what it was.

It's NOT cancer!!!!!

Here is the report if you can understand medical talk

COMMENTS:
There is significant tissue collection artifact that is precluding a definitive interpretation in this
case. There is an apparent proliferation of basilar epithelial cells forming cords and lobules with
occasional sebocytic differentiation, making a sebaceous gland epithelioma the likely lesion in this
case. A lesser considered possibility is a trichoblastoma.

Sebaceous gland epitheliomas occur primarily on the head as solitary lesions, although generalized cases have been reported. Shih Tzus, Lhasa Apsos, Malamutes, Siberian Huskies, and Irish Setters are overrepresented. A sebaceous epithelioma is more likely to recur, but the recurrence rate is still low,
approximately 6%.

Yay!

Very good and thank the gods for Google!

(( I still think it looks like a tick! ))