Hi, I have a 4.5 year old springer spaniel I noticed tonight she has a hard lump on her chest it doesn't bother her when I press on it and there is nothing wrong with her she is drinking, eating, playing, running. I've read that springer's can be quite susceptible to lumps and warts. Does anyone have a springer who has experienced this and should I be worried?

For peace of mind I'd get it checked out otherwise you'll worry yourself silly.

I'd get it checked too.  A general rule of thumb is that if it's fairly mobile and not too hard it's usually fatty, but there are exceptions - and vice versa.  I had a dobe with a rock hard lump deep in her chest tissue between her legs, had it removed and it was just fatty but the vet said she'd have done the same thing.

My experience tells me that lumps can be caused by all sorts of things and I would agree with the others to get it checked out for peace of mind.

My 7 year old Rottie has a number of lumps. 2 which were pea sized on the chest ( now half walnut sized), and another on her rib which is around half a plum sized. Vets have always said not to worry as they all move, they were convinced they were fatty lumps.

When we lost our other girl to bone cancer this year ( the same girl who broke her leg a year earlier ) we became somewhat paranoid, and had these checked out, to be on the safe side. These did all prove to be the fatty lumps which each of the vets had advised these would be.

The only thing I would say is this. My inlaws had a JRT from Battersea, and when she was middle aged, I noticed a pea sized lump on her chest. The vet said it was a fatty lump and didn't need removing. It grew and grew until it was almost bag of sugar sized and the poor little girl carried that lump around the rest of her life. My in laws took the vets at their word, and so never did anything about it, despite my mentioning it again and again. Now they were all worried it was too big to remove.  

Just this week I learned of the death of a lovely old girl at our dog club, who had a fatty lump on her back which appeared probably 3 or 4 years ago. Same vet, same recommendation. Didn't want to remove it as she was older (about 8 at the time!). So again it grew and grew, and it was absolutely huge. By then, they couldn't remove it because there wasn't enough skin.  I found out this week that it had finally broken through the skin, and so they had to try and remove it. It weighed 10 pounds!  Poor girl died at the vets the day after surgery. I am upset and furious that this has again happened, when they could have done something about it years ago. Her poor owner is an old lady of 80, and she is devastated.