Angel Needs Surgery

Angel is my Rottweiler. She’s currently two years old. When she was four months old, she had her first UTI. Since then, she’s had nine more. Without a doubt, she has yet another. With this past UTI, she was medicated and put on antibiotics. However, they didn’t work and the UTI got worse. She’s urinating blood, become lethargic, and has begun to eat much less. Her distress is visible now. Angel’s become much more needy, and looks skinnier than she should be.

The reason she gets UTIs so frequently is because she has a recessed vulva. It’s a common condition of canine conformation in which the vulva is at least partially engulfed by the skin folds that surround it. The fact of a recessed vulva, in it of itself, would not be a serious issue. However, local skin infections are extremely common among these dogs. Vaginitis, UTIs, and even urinary incontinence are all commonly reported in these cases. The extra skin folds in these dogs act like a dam, thereby collecting urine. Moisture, heat, the absence of light, and the accumulation of skin debris in such close quarters, all serve to fashion an ideal environment within the skin folds for bacteria to thrive. As such, Angel needs a surgery to remove the skin folds from her vulva.

If she continues to get bacteria stuck in her vagina, she may very well end up with a kidney infection. Please, we need all the help we can get to pay off her surgery. Thank you.