[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Puppy question
- From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cinosamgsd@xxxxxxxxx>, <samurigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Showgsd-L" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:32:16 -0400
inguinal hernias are not uncommon, and yet there are vets who've never seen
them. sometimes, tho, what you see and believe to be an inguinal hernia
turns out to be just a fatty deposit........those do disappear later on.
They appear suddenly in young pups, particularly bitch pups, and if they are
just fat, they disappear just as suddenly.
an animal with an inguinal hernia shouldn't be bred, of course, which is
why one must pay attention to them... they are much more serious than
umbilical hernias.
both occur in Cavaliers (which I've bred for about 20 years)...umbilicals
we tend to ignore and they are common enough that I mention them in my sales
contract, crossing it out when it doesn't apply...but inguinal hernias are
something else entirely. some lines do appear to have them pretty often,
which is why they are believed to be hereditary.
I do warn you, tho...vets can't always tell the difference,
either..........there is the famous (in Cavaliers) story of the bitch going
in to have the hernias fixed, only for the vet to discover, when he got in
there, that there were no hernias, only lumps of fat.......and he spayed the
bitch anyway, which was entirely the wrong thing to do, but too
late...................... of course, i've never heard of a vet thinking
a hernia or lump on a bitch was a testicle, but some of these people are
pretty stupid -----------i ran into one once who believed you had to lay a
puppy on its back to check stifles............................SHE didn't
last long~!
Peggy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cinosam GSD" <cinosamgsd@xxxxxxxxx>
> Funny story about something similar that happened to me. I had this same
> issue, took the puppy to a vet clinic that has about a half dozen vets at
> the clinic. I happened to get a youngster who promptly told me it was a
> testicle. I informed him that the puppy was a girl....and he told me
> well, she has a testicle all excited, that it was the second one he's seen
> in his career and the older vets in the clinic have never seen it. Yeah
> right. Well I got a second opinion and that vet told me it was a hernia.
> I sold the puppy as a pet at a discount and told the buyer they would need
> to get it fixed. Upon following up with them several months later, they
> said their vet could not find any lump and nothing further needed to be
> done with it. So who knows.....
>
> Cindy
> Sandra Bruner <samurigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've got a little girl puppy who has some swollen glands in her abdomen
> down by her privates. Anyone see this before. She doesn't seem affected at
> all. Just wondering if her hormones are out of whack?
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