Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
Keymaster
Hello! You sound as if you'd really like me to say 'just keep an eye on it,' but I'm afraid that I don't have enough information here to rule out various worrying things. You vet might want to rule out skin cancers, bacterial and yeast skin disease, abscesses, enlarged lymph nodes or deeper structures in the neck, dental disease, fungal disease and potentially endocrine diseases. Any one of these could be quite mild to start with, but would potentially get worse over time. Cats are masters at hiding pain; being solitary or colony animals (as opposed to living in cooperative units) they haven't benefited from evolving clear pain / illness signalling in the way that dogs have. This means that cats can get quite poorly before they actually start to 'look' ill. When it comes to cats, early prevention of escalation often proves to be key.
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