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So my dog's old - he's going to be 15 real soon.

He's been getting this little warts (I call them warts) on his body for a couple years now. They're real small, there's really very few of them. They'll "explode", in other words, break open and bleed/have some pus. When these warts pop open, I just dab a little peroxide on it and cover it with a band aid. Then they flatten out, scab over and disappear for good within a day or two.

Now, he's had this one "wart" for a while. It popped open like four or five weeks ago. Three weeks ago, after doing the same thing I've been doing for a while for day after day, it scabbed over. But shortly after, the scab fell off and there's still an bloody, pus-y opening. The opening got bigger like two weeks ago, but now it's smaller. A real scab never forms now - just a layer of dried blood that keeps the pus from coming out.

Like WTH is going on? Why won't it just heal up already?

I don't want to take him to the vet and have the vet charge me a couple hundred dollars for nothing. Besides, he's old and gets anxiety real bad when he has to go to the vet.

Plus he's got a sensitive stomach. I tried giving him a very light dash of turmeric on his food, because I know it's good for the immune system, but then he just had diarrhea after eating it.

So I'm asking people that are vets or veterinary students or have been in similar situations - what is going on? What are some natural ways to help heal this?

I'm using this phrase in an essay: "as speakers of a not widely spoken language" blah blah blah. It doesn't sound good. What's the word that would fit better than "not widely".

It's starting to annoy me! I can't remember what it's called! All I know is that Shaq is definitely singing it, NOT rapping it, and there are girls in the background singing "Shaq!"

What does Joe Klein mean in his article about Obama s state of the union speech?

"Obama ended his speech with a call for citizenship?"