Brown Discharge From Entire Male

[K9Nev]

I am wondering if anyone has experienced this before???.

I have a 3yo entire male GSD seemingly in perfect health. I closed our doggie door flap last night due to some stormy weather and kept the dogs inside. Early this morning, my GSD was jumping around in excitement in the laundry as he normally does when letting him out first thing for a run around. Whilst he was out the back, I turned on the laundry light (it was still dark) and noticed some browny coloured spots on the floor which looked to be like a diluted blood or diluted poopy colour, about a dozen small drops about 5mm in diameter???. I wiped them up which looked distictively brown on a white rag and had no real smell at all.

When my boy came back in, I checked his bottom, feet and gave him a check over and found this browny discharge around the covering of his penis I went out with the torch and found where he had peed which looked normal, no blood or brown anywhere to be seen, he was energetic and hungry and didn't seem ill or sensitive to touch at all, but I rang the vet who asked me to try and get a urine sample and bring it in which I did. No other discharge occurred all day other than what happened this morning and have never seen this happen before.

His urine was a bit dark looking when I finally competed the mission of trying to catch some, but was clear enough, like a ginger ale sort of colour.

Anyway, the vet tested the urine, I don't know exactly what or how they test at the vet clinic, but they said there was something abnormal there but didn't know what it was requiring a laboratory test which I naturally authorised. The vet rattled off a whole list of things, like urinary tract infections etc, then mentioned bladder cancer also which gets your mind in a bit of spin trying to remember what she said and take it all in.

I won't get the results back until Friday which seems like an eternity waiting to find out what is wrong. I guess that many of us do what I tend to, and start serching the web for symptoms that match with this "C" word in the back of your mind doesn't help the anticipation???.

Medically, we are doing what is required and have acted on things immediately to find out what is going on, but in the mean time, I am wondering if anyone else had experienced anything similar???. The dog seems absolutely fine and completely as normal, doesn't strain to pee or have any urinary symptoms associated with infection etc and apart from seeing those drops this morning, I wouldn't have any indication there could be a problem.

Any ideas or experience would be of great support, thanks

Edited June 9, 2010 by K9Nev

[t-time]

Did they take a semen sample? *might* be prostate infection which can be asymptomatic other than the colour of the semen which will be dark brown to red depending on how much blood is in the sample.

Just an idea?

[K9Nev]

Did they take a semen sample? *might* be prostate infection which can be asymptomatic other than the colour of the semen which will be dark brown to red depending on how much blood is in the sample.

Just an idea?

No, they haven't yet, just asked for a urine sample as he is displaying no ther symptoms. He hasn't spotted since yesterday morning and still seems fine. Went for a walk this morning, peed on every second bush as usual with no effort and all looked normal, definitely no visible signs of blood in the urine and no signs in his behaviour indicating an illness or any pain etc.

I guess we will what the laboratory test shows up tomorrow???

[t-time]

Ask for a prostate test then..... - you will find you have a sterile dog if it does happen to be a prostate infection! Nothing to do with urine or urine analysis.

[K9Nev]

Ask for a prostate test then..... - you will find you have a sterile dog if it does happen to be a prostate infection! Nothing to do with urine or urine analysis.

We got the laboratory urine analysis back this evening which indicated a minor prostate bleed with semen enzyme traces in the urine. The vet told us this situation is common with young entire males that are sexually inactive and nothing to be concerned about at this stage as no cell abnormalities or infections were evident which is thankfully is a good result.