Lesion on dogs paw

How long has your dog had it? Is it sore at all? Does it trouble the dog?

It looks like a wart to me, based on the fact that I've no knowledge at all.

I would ask for a needle aspiration to be done to find out what it is.

Did they do her bloods?

I think it could be a wart.

Thank you all for replying. She has had it for about three months. Two of the vets have taken needle aspirations, one said it was inconclusive and the other only got blood from it. We cover it at night to stop her licking it and try to keep it as clean as possible. She tends to pull away from me if I go to touch it but doesn’t seem to mind my cleaning it and putting her sock on at night. Nothing seems to change it one way or the other. I don’t know whether it’s worth putting her through an operation when we don’t know what it is. Also one vet wasn’t happy to do that because not much skin around it. So we’re stuck now but thanks again for your interest

That’s the trouble with needle aspirations ie you can get false negatives or nothing definite. I always ask for one, though, as it can prevent putting a dog through an operation with all that will entail ( my last dog had what turned out to be a cyst removed and the operation was really brutal; a needle aspiration would have prevented that). It’s in a difficult place though isn’t it for either removal or leaving it. Sometimes you just strike lucky with a vet that has seen something similar before eg my last whippet had a limp that I thought might have been due to cancer in her shoulder but a new vet at the practice realised it was a corn because she’d come across something similar. Is she ok walking on it? Does she need to wear a boot?

Looking again I see it isn’t on the pad. My dog is prone to getting lumps and I sometimes put thuja cream or castor oil on them. In fact I’m going to do that now because she has one on her head which I’ve been trying to ignore.