My dog's penis infected after surgery. Is removal helpful to save him?

The is not an infection, that is an emergency however. The penis must be returned to the protection of the prepuce or will eventually die off and require amputation. I recommend getting to an ER hospital tonight. In terms of at home remedies, you can try sterile lube and table sugar to try and reduce things. However, I believe at this point you may just want to leave things to the professionals.

Hello! The best thing to do is to keep the area clean with warm water. If he is not improving, your best bet is to take him in. Sorry, there isn't too much that can be done at home for this sort of thing!

If she has a uterine infection, she needs to have surgery to have the uterus removed. Without doing so, the infection could be fatal. Surgery does have risks, but the sooner she has surgery (before she starts getting more sick) the stronger she will be to get through surgery and recovery. Thank you fro asking Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach.

Poor pup. For any wound in which it doesn't heal with broad spectrum antibiotics you will need to get the area cultured or surgically removed. I assume he is intact, so a neuter + scrotal ablation (removal of the testicular sack) are recommended for this problem. However he unfortunately sounds very ill and potentially may have something else underlying that is causing this, such as Brucelosis, a fungal infection, or systemic infection. He need bloodwork analysis and perhaps even titers ran to check for these things before surgery. Having him hospitalized also should be considered to provide him supportive and nutritional support. I hope Rocky gets well soon and best of luck getting to he bottom of his illness. Take care.

Poor Kobe. Yes this appears to be a possible infection . He may have a cut there or perhaps even an abrasion that later became infected. I would try to get Kobe in to your vet soon to have this area investigated, cleaned with an antiseptic and then placed on oral +/- topical antibiotics to get rid of the infection. In the meantime I would recommend cleaning this with Betadine diluted 50:50 with warm water (if possible), and you can pick up an elizabethan collar (cone) to place on him so that he does not continue to lick this area and make it more irritated. I hope that your pet Kobe gets this area healed up soon. Take care.

It sounds like you're doing a great job sticking with this issue and doing all the work to figure out what's going on. From that description, it sounds like surgery with a soft tissue surgeon (rather than a general practitioner, although that depends on how comfortable your regular vet is with surgery I suppose) is the next step! It sounds like you're getting close to resolving things. I hope you can get a surgery consult soon. Good luck!

If you are seeing insect activity on Judge's body, whether it is the penis or anywhere else, there is an extreme infection and necrotic tissue that needs to be debrided by a veterinarian. This is not something that should wait until tomorrow and should likely be dealt with this evening at an emergency facility. The foul odor you are smelling is not the penis itself, but the infection and toxins that are being released from it. The vet is going to have to investigate what has happened, in terms of an underlying cause for the swelling and necrosis. As for cancer, it is impossible to know this without diagnostic testing from a veterinarian. Cancer of the genital organs in a young dog would be somewhat uncommon but not impossible.