Lump on puppy?

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We recently bought a puppy, it's a bitch but we've noticed there's a sizeable lump at the lower end of her stomach.. pretty much where her privates are.

The lump feels like it's full of fluid and doesn't seem to be causing her any discomfort or pain but it's making her walk a little funny. She's only 6 weeks (we didn't find out the recommended age of buying pups at 8 weeks until after we bought it) and she's due in for her first lot of injections on the 20th, we're obviously going to bring this up with the vet but just wondered if anyone could shed some light on the situation.

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Could be a number of things but i certainly wouldn't wait 12 days to take her to the vet.

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Me neither - i would also report the people who sold her to you to the RSPCA as they clearly do not know enough about dogs to be breeding them...............

And to ensure that if there are still any puppys left that they remain with thier mother until they are old enough to be properly rehoused.

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Hmm, I'll take her to the vets after work.

Wyetry - Honestly mate, I've been wondering if I should! The conditions the puppy were living in were crap, she was on a cold lino floor and the place was really unclean. She kind of looked sad aswell.. when we took her home and put her in the bed we bought for her and gave her some puppy milk/food she perked right up and became really playful and affectionate.. wagging her tail and everything. We've really grown attached to her already and have only had her since monday!

I've been doing some searching on the net and it sounds like an umbilical hernia, but I'll take her to the vets later and see what the score is. Hope it's nothing serious because she's a beaut

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I think you should - that doesnt sound like a particually nice start to your life for the poor puppy.

Sometimes I think that people should have to be vetted before they are allowed to own pets

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Don't know much about dogs, but when mum used to breed cats they didn't go until 10-12 weeks so they'd had their first vaccinations before they went to a new home.

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Yeah they were selling the puppies too early I think, but to be honest I reckon we did her a bit of a favour getting her out of that shithole.

Still, she was the last one left and we're doing all we can to help her settle in (although I think she has already).. I'll be having a word with RSPCA just as soon as I get her to the vets and make sure she's OK.

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you might have done her a favour in some respects but you might not have done yourself a favour, because dogs that are taken from their mother and other pups too young, often become aggressive towards other dogs.

http://www.noelpepincanine.ca/faq-aggression.html

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Hmm, I guess time will tell on that one. Our last dog always used to go mental when other dogs were around (except for all of my nans dogs) so we know how to deal with it, plus it's a Jack Russell so if we ever take it out for a walk and another dog happens to come by it won't be hard to just pick her up out of harms way.

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ohh that reminds me i saw a jack russel with a muzle on today - poor baby - i wondered how bad it had been to deserve that.

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Haha bless. I think they're lovely dogs When I get some spare time I'll try to post up some pics. She really is one of the cutest puppies I've seen.

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Aspire wrote: »

plus it's a Jack Russell so if we ever take it out for a walk and another dog happens to come by it won't be hard to just pick her up out of harms way.

that just makes the problem worse. That is the reason why small dogs are often badly social.

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Our dog had this. She hads to be put own because it was getting quite bad and she didn't like people touching her. (she'd go for them) Normally, she wouldn't care about people touching her. Apart from her feet - in which case, she'd just kick them.

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xsazx wrote: »

in its best interests to be muzzled than put down for being "dangerous"

This.

My mum runs a greyhound walking....thing and on her forum a lady was saying that she always used to get people saying her dog looked so much more dangerous with its muzzle on, then the one time she took it off a small puppy not on the lead came running up to it and her greyhound (an ex-racer, so obviously trained to go after small furry speeding things) basically attacked it. It's not that her dog was dangerous at all, but it was a nervous dog anyway and it was trained to do that.

I'm gonna suggest taking your puppy to training classes when it's old enough (which really should be pretty soon), so that it can learn to socialise with other dogs in a good environment.

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I know it sounds simple but it could be her belly button. Depending on how low down the lump is and if it's in the middle of her abdomen.
When we got our dog as a puppy we thought she had a strange lump so phoned up the vets to ask and when we told them where it was etc they said it was her belly button
When there puppys they can look and feel quite large.