Public Service Announcement to Manscape your Doodle :-/

Hi DK'ers, BB and I had a bit of an "emergency" this week, and I wanted to share a bit of a public service announcement to help others prevent such a situation. I don't recall ever seeing us talk about this before, so I figured I'd share.

BB was licking his belly area a bit more than normal (he is normally quite cat-like in his personal grooming behaviors, but this was more than that). Upon examination, I was quite startled by what I found. To be blunt, the hairy sheath around his penis got rolled inward (like a donut!) leaving the interior portion of the penis stuck outside(!!!!!). Without thinking, I put my hand on his low-low belly and pushed my hand backward, releasing the "roll" and putting everything back where it belonged...

I then called my vet in a tizzy: They said they would be happy to take a look at him, or if it happened again they should look at him. It seems as if I caught it before his licking caused any issues (swelling, etc). Since this is something that has never happened before I tried to figure out what it was, and my guess is that we went a little too long between "man trims." Usually we keep that area fairly short for sanitary purposes and whatnot. It didn't seem like things were getting too out of hand, but now we absolutely will be keeping a closer eye on that--we are definitely going to be keeping up with more regular trimming than we have before.

Anyway, that is all for today, just a little PSA to keep your (male) doods neat and tidy down there. And not just for aesthetic purposes... ;-]

Google provided some pretty helpful advise as well. If you want more info about this here's one link to start at (p.s. there is a photo at that link, so heads-up!)

http://www.petmd.com/blogs/thedailyvet/pmahaney/2013/june/paraphimo...