Okay, I know we had a post about some of our overly friendly boys flying their red flags too often – but what should we be looking for to indicate it's more than just a symptom of lacking any sort of modesty?

We think Dante might be having an issue with his, he seems to be having trouble getting it back in once it's out, and he's bothering with it a lot lately, and the other dogs seem to be quite a bit more interested in it than usual. But being that my other male dogs in the past were very rarely as 'friendly' as Dante seems to be, I don't know what to be looking for! 

Sheath infection, thank you!

He had one in the past that required he be flushed and have antibiotics – but it didn't seem to bother him other than having copious amounts of green discharge.

Our vet did say though that sheath infections tend to be common in young dogs and that it would likely come and go on it's own before age 2 and not to pay too much attention to it unless the discharge got really bad again. Which seems to be the case with Dante, he's had a few bouts of green discharge that have resolved themselves – but it must be bothering him this time around. Our vet gave no indication that we'd ever see anything more than discharge, so I didn't really think to connect the two – but that's probably what it is. Poor buddy, the flushing part of the ordeal does not look pleasant! 

On that note, since he has had issues with sheath infections – is there anything we can do to prevent them once we've treated it? 

GAG!!! ….lcometdog said:

Are we talking penis' again?

 

GRODY!

hahahahaha,

glad to know someone else is on the bandwagon with Maddie & I, we are grossed out!!!!

TMI!!!

Hope Dante gets better soon :)

No need to be embarrassed, Dante certainly isn't! Just be glad I didn't include pictures! 

Sorry for the TMI everyone! But, I just HAD to ask. I didn't want to be the dummy taking him to the vet because he's over excited, if there was nothing wrong! Plus, with as many happy flag flyers as we seem to have from that one old goofy post, I thought it might be helpful for others.

Thanks Pam. We'll try to help him out a bit in the cleaning department and see if that helps keep it away. He's 1.5 now, so hopefully in another 6 months or so, he'll grow out of it. The infection part, anyways!