Lump on friend's rat- abcess? Not much experience with this.

The Rat Shack Forum

Help Support The Rat Shack Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

Aida

Well-Known Member
Joined
Nov 26, 2011
Messages
2,323
Location
Florida
My friend's bald rat has a tiny mole-like lump/pimple/whatever on the underside of her neck. It looks very small on here, but when she stretched her neck up, it looked bigger. It's been there about 6 weeks, and the rat's health/motion isn't affected by it. She hasn't ever felt it, she says(at my house now). I told her it could be an abcess, caused by blah blah, and told her that she's gonna have to do stuff while it blows like a disgusting stink bomb. She doesn't have internet at her house at the moment, so I'll be passing on any info. from you guys. Could you let us know what to do, what it is, and what it will look like(you can post your horrendous pics- I've seen a few). It's still pretty small...




(I know it's hard to see on the tiny pictures. It's the darker dot thing, try and look hard. Click on the pic and it'll get bigger.)
 
Some rats have minor bumps, harmless cysts... especially nakies. I wouldn't worry about it unless it starts to grow or look infected.
 
IT looks like the nasty white bumps hairless gets. You can kinda see the white stuff in the 2nd one.
 
Do the bumps have any effect on them? Should she do something with them?

It doesn't seem to be painful or anything.

Thanks, guys. :]
She'll let me know if anything changes.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top