Neutered Dog Still Looks Like He Has His Balls?

[teaspoon]

My 8 month old English Staffy was neutered 3 weeks ago. He had undescended testes so we paid extra to have them removed as the surgery was a little more invasive than a normal castration.

Something very strange just happened this afternoon though. He walked by me humping the air (something he has never done before but I understand that neutered dogs can still want to hump things), but when I looked down there, I noticed that not only was he ...ahem...very swollen in his privates....it looked like he still has his balls! It looked exactly like how they did before he got neutered....see since they were undescended we would normally not see them, but sometimes they would 'appear' just below his shaft, often when he woke up from a nap. Then they would disappear again, so he has never had a scrotum. So there they were again....two of them, both about the size of a small walnut sitting at exactly the same location as they appeared before he got neutered! ;)

Could it be possible that the vet did not remove them correctly? Or could it be swelling from the operation? I really have to reiterate that the two lumps look exactly like how his balls did before his operation and...yes I copped a feel and they felt exactly the same too :rolleyes:

Has anyone experienced this before?? Help!!!

[Cala]

My 8 month old English Staffy was neutered 3 weeks ago. He had undescended testes so we paid extra to have them removed as the surgery was a little more invasive than a normal castration.

Something very strange just happened this afternoon though. He walked by me humping the air (something he has never done before but I understand that neutered dogs can still want to hump things), but when I looked down there, I noticed that not only was he ...ahem...very swollen in his privates....it looked like he still has his balls! It looked exactly like how they did before he got neutered....see since they were undescended we would normally not see them, but sometimes they would 'appear' just below his shaft, often when he woke up from a nap. Then they would disappear again, so he has never had a scrotum. So there they were again....two of them, both about the size of a small walnut sitting at exactly the same location as they appeared before he got neutered! ;)

Could it be possible that the vet did not remove them correctly? Or could it be swelling from the operation? I really have to reiterate that the two lumps look exactly like how his balls did before his operation and...yes I copped a feel and they felt exactly the same too :rolleyes:

Has anyone experienced this before?? Help!!!

[Miranda]

These are the bulbous glands which are located at the base of the dog's penis and are very noticeable when engorged. They have nothing to do with the testes which do not move and remain in the scrotum at all times.

[Cala]

My 8 month old English Staffy was neutered 3 weeks ago. He had undescended testes so we paid extra to have them removed as the surgery was a little more invasive than a normal castration.

Something very strange just happened this afternoon though. He walked by me humping the air (something he has never done before but I understand that neutered dogs can still want to hump things), but when I looked down there, I noticed that not only was he ...ahem...very swollen in his privates....it looked like he still has his balls! It looked exactly like how they did before he got neutered....see since they were undescended we would normally not see them, but sometimes they would 'appear' just below his shaft, often when he woke up from a nap. Then they would disappear again, so he has never had a scrotum. So there they were again....two of them, both about the size of a small walnut sitting at exactly the same location as they appeared before he got neutered! ;)

Could it be possible that the vet did not remove them correctly? Or could it be swelling from the operation? I really have to reiterate that the two lumps look exactly like how his balls did before his operation and...yes I copped a feel and they felt exactly the same too :rolleyes:

Has anyone experienced this before?? Help!!!

Don't worry all is as it should be, what you are seeing is the shaft of the penis the 'walnuts' are at the base of the shaft and are related only to the blood pumping action of the penis. (that's the easiest way to explain it, sorry if anyone is offended!)

Sorry for the double post, I don't know how that happened.

Edited July 11, 2008 by Cala

[Jessca]

Kaiser was desexed at about 7 months it took a few weeks before he was 'flat' (if you know what i mean) after the swelling goes down it also took abit for the skin to shrink. dont worry i though the same thing- did they do right? :rolleyes:

[teaspoon]

Oh phew...thanks I just did some googling on Bulbous Glands...it all makes sense now! :rolleyes:

[Kirislin]

Just wanted to say the photograph of your puppy is beautiful!

[MelB]

Hi there, I posted a topic a little while ago about something very similar, someone came in (Veanna) and let me know it was the bulbous glands, so I said I would look that up on Google, funnily enough, google sent me here Glad to see you got the same reply and all is well with your puppy Who is really cute by the way!