My Dog is Mutating

[wraithfodder]

Yup, made a brief tweet about it, which elicited a few "icks" of sorts, so now shall post here. Anyway, was brushing dog and this dog has fur. I mean, he could be mistakened for a woolly  mammoth (Sheltland Sheepdog). However, we found what grossly enough looked like a twisted toenail growing out of his *tail*. I mean, eeeeuuuuu. My brother said, oh, he broke off the other one a while ago so maybe it grew back, which seems to be the case. Anyway, after grumbling why couldn't he have grown this icky little horn thing out of his head as then it would be great for Halloween, I went off to the internet.

Today, I hit the jackpot. Sorta. It seems this is a cutaneous horn, which dogs get, cats get, etc. etc. and even people get 'em too. There are some rather er, um, fascinating photos on the web of people who have let big ones grow on them! Anyway, he'll probably have a vet visit soon so we'll deal with it then.

Anyway, this dog groomer's site - http://www.groomers.net/discusalbum/messages/89/18618.html?1158465213 - had a whole thread on them.

I'll stick the pictures of said 'mutation' under the cut for those who have a low squick tolerance to this kind of X-File-ish stuff ;)


It's two centimeters long.

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Comments

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

You want gross? Check out my latest LJ post! But enough about me. This is fascinating stuff. Cutaneous horns--and how come science fiction hasn't grabbed onto these suckers (in a manner of speaking) and made a big hudu about them? Dogs, cats...and people get these things? Aaaahhhh! This is even better than polydactylism.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Whoa... yeah, read your entry. Sounds like a SyFy movie! WAit, go down there and videotape!!!

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

*shivers...*