Hermaphrodite Doodle

[Chris Medland]

Yes you heard me right!, my dogs testicles had not dropped by 10 mths,I didn't want to wait any longer.

The vet phoned me when she was done to tell me that my dogs testicles were attached to his Uterus, he has a regular penis so there was no indication. Any advise?

I'm worried about anything else that might be wrong with him, he is already on Glucosomine because he runs on 3 legs any time he gets up from sitting and if he makes a sharp turn during our walks

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Have you contacted your breeder?

[F, Calla & Luca]

I would also do a search to see if this kind of defect is linked to anything else.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Here's an article on hermaproditism in dogs, but it doesn't give much info:

http://www.petplace.com/dogs/hermaphrodite-and-pseudohermaphrodite-...

[Eva (Lilo and Rocky)]

The fact that he was born with a gender disorder does not sound like a big problem, and I don't think it is related to him being on glucosamine for joint issues (I assume?). If he is otherwise a good and healthy dog, I would just accept him for who he is and be glad that there is probably little stigma attached to intersex syndrome among canines...

Think positive: at least you won't have to spend any $$ to have him neutered!!!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It does have to do with hormonal issues, though; and hormones affect the skeletal system.

[Eva (Lilo and Rocky)]

here's a brief article on gender disorder in dogs:

http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/reproductive/c_dg_sexual_develo...

[Chelsea and her doodle Piper]

We had a hermaphrodite bull dog! I believe my husband got him from a BYB (before we were married). He had to have a very risky, complicated surgery when he was a puppy (he made the medical journals) to allow his urine and waste to exit properly (doesn't sound like you have that issue though!). He grew ENORMOUS b/c he was on steroids for a while, but he was a great dog, with very few medical issues related to his hermaphrodite-ism! :o) A very gentle giant. We always called him a he, but after testing later in his life, we found out that he had more female hormones than male, so he was more of a "she." Anyways, I am sure your little hermy will be just fine!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I would be more concerned about the joint problem.

[Natasha]

Given what your vet said about his testicles, is it at all possible that the pain that your dog may feel when getting up, making sharp turns, or running is because of that rather than because of joint issues?

[Pat & "Tucker"]

here is another small piece of information.
http://merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/110200.htm
and another
www.kerryblues.info/HEALTH/HEALTHBREED.HTML" target="_blank">http://www.kerryblues.info/index.html?http%3A//www.kerryblues.info/HEALTH/HEALTHBREED.HTML

That's an odd paste above but one of the links works- they seemed to be slinked together

You may also want to search the term "ambiguous genetalia" and "persistent mullerian duct syndrome "(PMDS

[1ytzt0sy0ien7]

See my post below... Vickie Wallen is the geneticist that I was working with! I was so excited that my vet found her and put us in touch!

[1ytzt0sy0ien7]

Hi,
I have a stud that after many years of excellent service started producing litters with Hermie or two in it. I do early spay neuters so I discovered it right away. We waited on these pups to spay/neuter until later to see how things would develop. I have worked with a geneticist at Cornell to learn more about the genetic ramifications and they have no answers for me. It is often consider genetic by nature and runs in many lines of pure breed dogs and is apparently not all that uncommon in certain breeds...not uncommon meaning that it pops up from time to time...probably still not the norm though. It started happening for me however when my guardians hired a lawn service. I only saw them in litters when fertilizers and pesticides were actively being applied. I do not have a consenses that this was the cause but after researching the topic in other species I found article after article pointing the finger at agricultural and lawn run off into local bodies of water as being the culpret for the large numbers of hermaphroditic fish and amphibians in our lakes and streams in the past 20 years! I am not sure why vets and geneticists ignore these findings in the canine world and believe that it is not only a genetically caused condition. I think it could be both genetic and/ or environmental based on my particular experience.

At any rate, that was probably more information that you wanted to know! About 1- 2 years ago I was seeing one in almost every litter that was being bred during the fertilizer season (but not all, perhaps it had to do with timing of application and breeding) that was bred with this one stud. I have kept in touch with the owners of the pups that came from any of my females (not the ones that were studded out though) and there have never been any problems associated with any of these dogs due to the hemaphroditism.

I would worry about that hip though! Just for curiosity's sake though since I have not heard of other hermaphrodites in the labradoodle world before mine, I would love to know if there was any relation between your dog and my stud. Do you mind telling me who the dam and sire were for your dog?

Pam
edenvalleylabradoodles.com