dogs balls

[twiggy 12]

hello i have a lurcher pup here 7months old and just noticed he has only 1 ball just looking to know will the other one drop or will it do him any harm.

cheers twiggy

[derekbrown 176]

i have a dog the same,it won't do him any harm at all.

[christian71 3,187]

hello i have a lurcher pup here 7months old and just noticed he has only 1 ball just looking to know will the other one drop or will it do him any harm.

cheers twiggy

It maybe the dog has only one ball or it has not dropped if it hasnt dropped yet it never

will you will have to have it removed cos can cause trouble later in life

[derekbrown 176]

hello i have a lurcher pup here 7months old and just noticed he has only 1 ball just looking to know will the other one drop or will it do him any harm.

cheers twiggy

It maybe the dog has only one ball or it has not dropped if it hasnt dropped yet it never

will you will have to have it removed cos can cause trouble later in life

maybe he should first see will the dog make the grade.

i've seen various dogs over the years with one ball and it never affected any of them.

[riohog 5,939]

its a genetic fault ,and can be passed on to further generations . either through the dog //or the bitch!!

[Mrs A.R.D 53]

wont do any harm?

if its retained it will turn cancerious after time and you would need to have it removed

if it has only one nut its a genetic fault and it will be passed on through breeding.

but id wait till the dog is a year old because it could just be late to drop. can you feel another nut further

up inside him or do you deffo think he only has one?

[tony1978 3]

ive got a terrier and one ball has dropped the other you can see but hasnt dropped, can the vet just take the 1 ball and would it affect the dog if i wanted to breed in the future?

[derekbrown 176]

wont do any harm?

if its retained it will turn cancerious after time and you would need to have it removed

if it has only one nut its a genetic fault and it will be passed on through breeding.

but id wait till the dog is a year old because it could just be late to drop. can you feel another nut further

up inside him or do you deffo think he only has one?

it is not certain that it would turn cancerous,i,ve seen several like that and never a problem,sometimes people worry too much.

[TOPPER 1,809]

if you can feel the other ball massage it with a warm flannel and ease it down i take it this is a young dog if you massage it regularly theres a very good chance it will drop but even if it doesn t it won t effect it reproduceing there is a POSSIBILITY the retained ball could get cancerous but this only happens after about 3 years so you have time to work the dog as has been said this problem can be hereditary, personally id just run with it and see how the dog develops

[twiggy 12]

deffo think he has only one ill have another look tommorrow.

[twiggy 12]

had a look today deffo only 1

[Wild Whippies 11]

At 7 months, it's unlikely for the remaining testicle to drop and I think the dog may be too old to have it manipulated down now as I've only done it with young pups.

A retained testicle in my opinion is not something to be overtly concerned about. Yes there is a slight increased risk of the dog developing testicular cancer but seeing as cancer is common in dogs anyway, it wouldn't, in my eyes be a reason to race off to the vets.

Surgery carries risks - years back, we had a whippet with a retained testicle that was removed and he was unfortunately left mildly incontinent. He lived till 14 where we lost him to a severe stroke. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but even if Timmy had been unfortunate enough to develop testicular cancer at say 12 yrs old, at that kind of age, most tumours are very slow growing and unlikely to be the cause of a dogs death.

Any of ours who have a retained testicle get the odd check just to make sure it's not tethering (sticking) to any of the surounding tissues or changing shape or anything sinister like that and are basically left well alone.

 

It's up to you really. If you can live with the outside gamble that your dog might get testicular cancer at a young age and are happy keeping an eye on it then leave it be. If however, it would cause you concern every day and you just couldn't live with the possibility then go ahead with it's removal. That way if the op (god forbid) did go wrong you've at least felt some justification for doing it. A decent vet will respect your opinion and only insist on it's removal if they feel the retained testicle is either causing your dog discomfort or the testicle itself already feels abnormal. It might be easier finding the missing testicle than a decent vet though!