Warts: old age symptom or something else?

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Joey has developed a number of raised wart-like bumps on his back and at base of the tail. They are not painful to the touch. Some have a crater-like opening in them and there are times when I find dried blood around them, so he might be chewing on them at night, altho I have never observed this. I wipe them clean with peroxide which he doesn't mind. One on his tail DID turn dark, dry up and fell off on its own.

Are these just an old age sign or symptomatic of something else? Lord knows, I have a ton of dry bumps too which seem to crop up overnight -- Ahm'a payin' the price for all those bikini days on the water ( we did a ton of boating.) I could keep a derm busy for a week.
 
I haven't heard of them on cats either. If you have some on yourself, Listerene twice a day on it will kill it. I swear on a stack of bibles. My great-grama taught me that, had a planter's wart on my thumb in highschool and it went away in a couple of weeks.
 
Might they be sebaceous cysts? Not sure if cats get them. I dog sat a spaniel for a few weeks who came with a mess of them. Basic hygiene, similar to what you are doing, cleaned up most of them.
 
Saima had bumps near the base of her tail that sound very similar to what you are referring to. Scaly and crusty, and they would bleed fairly easily. I asked the vet to take a look at them a couple of times, and they said they were sebaceous cysts and not harmful. They seemed to think they might have been related to her food allergies. She also had a smallish sebaceous cyst on her back that looked more like a typical "pimple"--white stuff would come out of it when they squeezed it. (Ashamed to admit we squeezed it at home sometimes too... we just wanted it to go away, but shouldn't have messed with it.) Of course I don't know for sure if that is what the ones on her tail really were, or whether it's the same thing your cat has, but that's what they told me.
 
My Maggie had a wart on her forehead at a fairly young age. My vet checked it and showed me how it was not attached to the muscle because it moved with the skin. As she aged, more warts developed on her back. My vet would check them at each physical to make sure they hadn't changed too much.

Here is some information: http://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/ski ... llomatosis
 
doombuggy said:
I haven't heard of them on cats either. If you have some on yourself, Listerene twice a day on it will kill it. I swear on a stack of bibles. My great-grama taught me that, had a planter's wart on my thumb in highschool and it went away in a couple of weeks.
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Actually, a Plantar wart is on the sole of the foot.

"Plantar" is the medical name for the sole of the foot.

Otherwise, it's just a WART !


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_wart
 
Morgaine has these as well. She is 13 and developed several over the last year. Two vets have diagnosed them as sebaceous hyperplasia, harmless and not anything to treat unless they are bothersome and get chewed on. One of Morgaine's also turned dark and dried up and fell away.
 
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