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This is widespread with street dogs (and "street" dogs) where I live in Mexico. It can get pretty nasty. Female dogs will typically get tumor growths on the va
by nso 7y ago
This is widespread with street dogs (and "street" dogs) where I live in Mexico. It can get pretty nasty.
Female dogs will typically get tumor growths on the vagina, and at its worst will look like someone took a meat grinder to her parts. It will blow up in size and at some point the dog will succumb and die.
The male dog will get it in the penis, and typically will be caught sooner as bloody discharge from a male dog is something that raises a red flag quicker.
My mother-in-law has had 3 dogs get infected at different points in time, one female that had to be put down and two male that recovered.
- jjtheblunt 7y agoThat's sad, because it's trivially curable, supposedly. Man, if they'd snip those male dogs' with a vasectomy, what an improvement it would be...same here north of the mexico-us border.
- asdfman123 7y agoCan't you just avoid this if you spay and neuter dogs?
- nso 7y agoSure, but who pays for spaying and neutering the plethora of street dogs in the poorest states in Mexico? And many people have dogs without the means of paying for this (or any) kind of surgery. Between us and my MIL we have 10 dogs, and all of them except one are fixed. I've made sure of that. I'm not able to win the argument over the last one, but it's old now anyways. The dogs she had that got sick was from before I was in the picture.
- dymk 7y agoNeuter, not vasectomy. Vasectomy dogs still will mount, just not have puppies.
- kranner 7y agoOne of our dogs acquired a CTVT tumour in the nasal tract, which is rarer. It resulted in a bloody discharge via one nostril which thankfully led to an early diagnosis (although it remains curable up to quite a late stage as the vet told us). Our boy has had his chemo and seems fully recovered: swelling is gone, bleeding and reverse-sneezing have stopped, appetite is back to normal, all signs of lethargy and malaise are gone. Hopefully he will remain tumour-free.