My Princess Chai had an inguinal hernia and the breeder's vet said it should resolve on it's own without surgery. My vet concurred and both were correct. I got her at 15 weeks of age and only saw it twice, both times when I bathed her and she reared up on her hind legs. It was about the size of a pea and my vet told me how to gently push it back in with my pinky figer which I did successfully each time. I never saw it after she reached 6 months of age. She is a tiny dog at under 4 lbs at 13 months now so the pea size of the hernia was fairly large for her but not really life threatening according to the vet.
Princess Chai will never be bred but I also do not want her to have surgery so she will not be spayed and I am glad that the hernia resolved on it's own and she did not have ot have surgery to correct it.
Did either vet feel this hernia on this puppy may resolve w/o surgery? I think that is is common for them to resolve as they grow. |