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I have been raising dogs and various other animals for 20 plus years, and this is new to me. Just recently I found one of my pups looking like it was getting a cold eye goop and running nose, so I removed her from the group and gave her some extra care, after a couple days she lost weight and had a hard time walking that got me weary to what I was dealing with. Then under her jaw (not where her glands are) directly under her tongue a huge hard mass formed the size of a baseball I then started antibiotics and immune boosters. After a week the pup got better and is back to normal, now my house dog has the same thing! what the hell is this giant mass? His is the size of a canalope and as hard as concrete-formed almost overnight. The good thing is it seems to be treatable but I would like to know what I am dealing with because it seems to be contagious .................

The mass under the jaw that you describe was obviously causing her pain........enough pain that she would not eat, and thus the weight loss. It may have been an abcess, or perhaps a parotid gland stone or abcess.

Did it resolve with the antibiotics?
Is she back to eating and regaining the lost weight?
Does she now appear well, behave normally and seem ok?


I would look for an abcess under a tooth, a cracked or damaged tooth, a foreign body stuck in her mouth, like a bone splinter or something lodged under her tongue, or a puncture under the jaw skin and flesh that went through to the mandible.


Parotid glands secrete saliva and other digestive juices that start the digestive process in the mouth.........and sometimes this gland can get plugged or develop an abcess, or a stone, causing an obstruction, with a hard mass-like swelling.


Other causes could be a tumor, insect or snake bite-venom, or some other uncommon cause.

Hope this helps.

I had something similar happen a couple of weeks ago with my older male dog, but it was actually on his side it started out real small then began to grow rapidly and became very big in a day and a half i took him to the vet and they drained it leaving a couple drain tubes and gave me some antibiotics (amoxicillan) and it started going away and eventually healed up and acted fine. Then a few days later i noticed one of my gyps had the same type of deal on her rear end over next to her butt hole and it was real hard like a rock i started in with the antibiotics and it has gone down and is still going down. It was just weird i mean they were the same type of thing both real hard like an abcess. They are both okay and the female is getting better and should be fine im still hunting her and she still eats and acts fine with no difference in activity. I wish i knew what it was but without doing blood work and paying the extra hundred dollars i won't. As long as they get better im okay with that. But if it keeps appearing i will have some blood work done to see what the problem is. I also thiought the same thng that it was contagious but none of the other hounds have anything of the sort and they are all together. Goo luck hope they turn out okey which i think they will givin proper treatment. Good luck DC.

What dog food are you feeding?

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