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belly button bulge? Hey everyone, My pups are 1 week and a half old now, everyone is growing well and I can't complain about anything, but i do have a question about one's belly button. Him and his sister were born very close together, they both came out and were 'stuck' next to mom while we waited for the umbnilical cords to catch up and come out to be cut. My Rosie (momma) finally began to pull on the cords to get them out and she gobbeled the cords up and this little dude flew up by his cord while mom was eating the cord. He now has a tiny bumb or bulge there, it is healed over and doesn't seem red or anything but the others don't have the bulge. I just want to see if this is what a hernia is or if it is normal. It is pretty small, just not like the others. Thanks for any input. (If this is a hernia, what should be done?) |
Bumping this up for you... Because I am by no means an expert! :questione But, it sounds a though it may be a small umbilical hernia. Some times over time they close and other times they do not. In the event that it doesn't if it should happen to actually be a hernia, it can be repaired at the time of the little one's neuter. |
sounds like a hernia ,occasionally when the mom chews the cord to short this will happen.It can also be a hereditary condition.Make sure your vet takes a look but most go away by the time the pup is 10 weeks old. |
I have to agree with the previous posters. From your description, it is likely an umbilical hernia...not at all uncommon when mom gets a little to agressive with chewing the cords away. (This is why I always cut the cords myself.) |
O.k. I was planning on cutting it, but Rosie was quick and they were stuck so close to mom those first few minutes I just wanted the placentas to come out before I cut. There is no opening, it is just a healed over little tiny bump. So if it developes into a bigger hernia, I would start to see it bulging more? A hernia is when the insides beging to push out, right? Thanks for the info so far.:) |
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Because there was no space between mom and puppies to even safely cut the cord. They were laying as close as they could outside of her and the placentas weren't out yet and I had already had one placenta that didn't come out with a puppy, I couldn't even pull on them w/out pulling on their belly hard, I was trying to avoid giving them a hernia. I would have had to cut a quarter inch or less only from their belly's to free them, which I don't think is enought to tie the cord off. They came back to back and both were still attached too close. |
The vet advised us that it was perfectly safe to pull out the placenta out of mom. Sorry, didn't read above. It's possible that it's a hernia. |
Thanks, but there was absolutely nothing to pull on at that point. All of the umbilical was still in mom on both puppies at the same time. They were both sitting there with their belly's against her vulva. I was on the phone with the michigan state emergency vet at the time and she advised me to let them sit there (their heads were out of the sack and they were breathing on their own) In order to pull I would have had to hold the puppies bodies to pull on anything, I couldn't even get hemostats on the cord yet. It was a pretty odd situation. |
A small hernia can close by itself, a freind of mine breeds s**t Zu's and she had a pup with one the vet told her to put the pup on its back and massage that hole every day around the circumfrence. By the time she was 14 weeks it was almost all the way gone. Might not work with yours but well worth a try I have had many cords right up to mom I do not pull out the placents, would hate to have one tear on me. |
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