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Hi all,

It's Tiffanie with Evolution Boxers and I sold a show puppy to a home near by and he is about 15 weeks old now. The new owner, Brandon,  took him to get the ears posted for the first time to my vet but he was not available. So he was seen by another vet in the office, the pup has a bump on his belly button that came back after four weeks and wanted that checked out as well (Basically a hurnia). Let me start by saying that the mommy Raven licked the poor kids to death and throught there first 24 hours on the ground she managed to get all there cords off and licked them clean as a whistle. At there six week check up two of the pups had some fluid building up on the belly button and my vet said it should desolve but keep an eye on it and if it gets worse we would cross that bridge then (He made no big deal of it).

Now,  Brandon said to me today that the other office vet told him a variation of things:

1-That it is a hurnia, what kind on the other hand he did not say, and that it would need to be removed by a surgery

2-That it was caused by genetics and could carry on to his progeny 

3-That it was a disqualifying factor in a show dog and it would no longer be ashowable  prospect and to contact his breeder asap

4-The dog needed to be neutered as soon as possible and that there was no reason for showing him or breeding him after all of this. He will make a great pet...

I got on the phone and did some internet searching as well. After a few conversations and reasearch it's the consensious that the vet is WRONG and doe's not know what he is talking about on both the show end and genetic side of it all. He has no experience with show dogs nore has he read the AKC standard (Which says nothing about hurnia's being a disqualifier). I am hoping some of you may have some insite on this and if you know how they treat these things that would help as well (Is surgery avoidable?). Brandon is concerned and should be but it would be nice to get a few more thoughts on the matter. If you could e-mail me personally I will get your thoughts on it sooner. There have been a hand full of people that have had a bad experience with this vet and I just don't feel he is in his right head on the issue.  Thanks for reading this Tiffanie Gisseman evolutionboxers@yahoo.com

P.S. Sorry about my grammer its not my finest quality =)



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Unless it is dangling past this boy's penis, I don't see how a judge will see it in the ring. However, there may be a problem health-wise. Depending on how much of a bulge there is and how thin the skin is, there is a possibility it could rupture. Obviously I only have your words to go on.

My suggestion is go to another vet and get a 3rd opinion. Both you and the puppy buyer go there together. On the whole a hernia, if treated early, is generally not a problem. However there have been cases where it got worse. Right now is when you both need to take care of this puppy boy :)

Don't completely disqualify the buyer's vet. That would be doing him/her a disservice. We don't know if he has seen some hereditary factors in other patients' dogs which leads him to this conclusion. Just as with each dog owner, a vet typically learns from their own experiences. I can tell you mine has learned ALOT about Boxers since I started going to her :)



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1-That it is a hurnia, what kind on the other hand he did not say, and that it would need to be removed by a surgery


It sounds as if this puppy has an umbilical hernia. To my knowledge, the only way to treat/repair it is through surgery. As far as the genetic component, I have no knowledge of this being a genetic problem, at least not in Boxers. The hernia can occur from too much pulling/tension on the umbilical cord during delivery. Or too much tugging/licking just after delivery.

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Boxer Sue wrote:

1-That it is a hurnia, what kind on the other hand he did not say, and that it would need to be removed by a surgery


It sounds as if this puppy has an umbilical hernia. To my knowledge, the only way to treat/repair it is through surgery. As far as the genetic component, I have no knowledge of this being a genetic problem, at least not in Boxers. The hernia can occur from too much pulling/tension on the umbilical cord during delivery. Or too much tugging/licking just after delivery.

 



I *think* some types of hernias are genetic in part, but this isn't one of them.

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Hi all,

As I wrote last we were concerned about one of our pups that was sold developed a hurnia at 3 month of age. Well i heard about two weeks ago that it just up and disapeared! Brandon was massaging it every day and one day it just melted away. He cancelled the surgery and is keeping an eye on it. We are thrilled it went away on its own and hope it is gone for good. Thanks for all the responses to this, he is growing up to be a beautiful boy!

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