We have a 4 1/2 month old kitten who I totally love. We adopted her from the Hamilton SPCA in August, and she makes me so happy. She has had medical checkups and vaccines and been spayed, and nothing then has seemed abnormal, and we are told that she is healthy. They even did a blood test before the spay operation to check for liver and kidney problems, or any other complications (including allergic reactions) that may occur during surgery.
That said, we have just found a bump on her side that we are worried about. It’s located just “below” (behind) her ribcage, on her right hand side, about an inch down from her spine. It seems to be about the size of a penny, and is somewhat hard with respect to the area around the bump. We looked at her skin in that area, and it is not discoloured as far as we can tell through her coat (her skin is very pink as she is a predominantly white cat). We have noticed no odd habits since we adopted her that might be signs of problems, nor have we had the vet tell us that anything seemed abnormal to her (although this hasn’t yet been brought to her attention).
We plan on calling the vet and asking over the phone, but I’d like to possibly have a better idea about whether or not this is serious. Do cats get moles? I am having trouble Googling information, since I don’t know what to look for - I know we have some vets and vet techs on the boards…can you help?
She’s a very active and excitable kitty, with a slight tendancy to get aggressive (biting and clawing) when she plays too much. We are managine to control that somewhat with angry-voice commands and a squirt bottle