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A PSA for dog owners (gross...I warned you)
Specifically, male dogs. I learned something new today-it is, in fact, possible for the secretions made by the mucous membranes of a dog's penis to get built up inside the prepuce (penis=red rocket, prepuce=skin around the penis) and become impacted. When this happens, the vet has to squeeze your dogs weiner to get the impacted stuff out. It's really disgusting.
So yeah. If you happen to notice that your boy dog's weiner looks lumpier or bulgy, take him in to get it checked out. Gross as it is, that stuff needs to come out before it gets infected (my dog's did not, thank god).
Re: A PSA for dog owners (gross...I warned you)
I have no idea. Eddie was neutered after he was rescued from "the bad place", so we think he was around 8 mos old. Our vet said its hard to say what caused it-it could have been something that got in there and caused the impaction (but she didn't see anything when she squeezed all the yuck out) or it could have been a diverticulum (aka pouch) in the prepuce or something else in his conformation. His 6 month checkup is next month so she's going to check it then...if its started to build up again she said we may have to start, ahem, flushing him out ourselves once a week. Please god no.
And that can't be comfortable for him, either.
It could not have been pleasant, that's for sure. I do have to give my little pittie boy a lot of credit for being a good boy though...it may have been due to the fact that his default setting at the vet is "frozen in fear" but regardless he was an angel other than startling when he heard a loud noise in the back.
I am so crossing my fingers we don't have to do this at home.