Unweaned kittens in animal shelters. Almost all animal shelters will immediately kill unweaned kittens, as they do not have the resources to feed the kittens around the clock. The Austin Animal Center calls APA! when an unweaned kitten comes in and our volunteers immediately transfer the kitten(s) to our Neonatal Kitten Nursery.
The typical outpatient surgical procedure for cyst removal is to numb the area around the cyst with a local anaesthetic, then to use a scalpel to open the lesion with either a single cut down the center of the swelling, or an oval cut on both sides of the centerpoint. If the cyst is small, it may be lanced instead.
Inflamed cysts usually are treated by draining the fluid and removing the shell that make up the cyst wall. You also may be treated with antibiotics if the skin around the cyst is also inflamed. If a cyst is causing irritation or cosmetic difficulty, your physician can remove it by making a small incision in the skin and emptying the contents of the cyst and its wall.