We had our male dachshund (2.5 years at the time) neutured in August 2006. At the end up September, he started abcessing in the area of his neuturing. We took him to our new vet (we moved out of state) and he was put on antibiotics. After a week, he continued to abcess. He underwent exploratory surgery and two interior stitches that had not dissolved yet were removed.
All was fine until January, when he started to abcess again. We took him to the vet again and he underwent a second exploratory surgery. Nothing foreign was found and three samples of the puss/blood were sent to a pathologist. After a week, the pathologist was not able to grow any bacteria or fungus, ruling those things out. Our dog is back on antibiotics, but now a week later is abcessing again. The next step is to take a tissue sample.
Has anyone ever heard of this? Our dog is otherwise behaving normally. We just want him to be healthy again. Thank you for your feedback.
2007-02-19 12:56:17 · 2 answers · asked by Tanya H 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
I saw a dog on E-VET interns a few weeks ago and the abcess got so big. His nut sack was the size of a grapefruit and the poor guy couldn't sit down. They ended up removing the whole scrotum.
2007-02-19 13:40:04 · answer #1 · answered by marina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that comes to mind (seeing that the culture came back negative) is he might be getting an infection from either scratching or scrapping himself.
2007-02-19 13:01:58 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋