BullyPotato
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Hello! My 2 year old bully has a couple forehead wrinkles that are not just normal thin skin bunching up like the rest of his face/body- meaning when you pull back his skin to try to flatten out 2 of the wrinkles near his eyebrows, you can feel that the wrinkles actually have lumps/ growths/nodules under them, the same shape as the wrinkles and it's not just loose skin that you can smooth out. I took him to the vet today who noticed the growths and she said that she has only seen them before in Bulldogs or Boxers but she has always found them to be benign (non- cancerous growths
) & it may be genetic. He's had them since he was young but I thought it was normal & you can't tell by looking at him that they aren't just heavy bulldog forehead wrinkles. 
He is otherwise healthy besides some allergies and very sensitive skin in general. My question for all the bulldog owners is--- has anyone else found this on their bully? Or heard of it? Any experiences in causes/ treatments? I can't find any information about this condition on these forums or when I do general web searches. Everything wrinkle related is about infections, etc and not thickened tissue under wrinkles or benign lesions / growths. Thanks!!!!
) & it may be genetic. He's had them since he was young but I thought it was normal & you can't tell by looking at him that they aren't just heavy bulldog forehead wrinkles. He is otherwise healthy besides some allergies and very sensitive skin in general. My question for all the bulldog owners is--- has anyone else found this on their bully? Or heard of it? Any experiences in causes/ treatments? I can't find any information about this condition on these forums or when I do general web searches. Everything wrinkle related is about infections, etc and not thickened tissue under wrinkles or benign lesions / growths. Thanks!!!!
) and he has the same 3 main head wrinkles, which makes me think they aren't just random lumps that might be more worrisome. The lumps are spongey feeling, can shift with the skin wrinkle, and it really seems almost like the folds he had on his head just thickened inside with little mounds (his nose rope is just normal thinner folded skin). I called my vet to ask again exactly what she wrote down, which was "thickened folds / benign skin proliferations, with a possibility that they are acrochordonous plaques." When I looked up "acrochordonous plaques" there isn't much info on it but it seems to be more common in the neck area. So who knows but I think I'll just watch and make sure they don't get larger/discolored/loose hair. I'm also going to try to contact the breeder to see if the parents or any siblings have anything similar.
