Okay, we're going to move on to the last
portion of our physical exam, the urogenital and
rectal exam. So to start with, for him
we're gonna start with our urogenital exam
and since he's a boy, we're going to have
a look at our penis and we just have a
gentle feel, feeling for any abnormalities. And very quickly
we're just gonna extrude it from its sheath just briefly
to make sure that we're not seeing any masses or
any discharge. Once we've done that, if he
was an intact male, we would go ahead and
feel his testicles. He's been neutered but things that
we would be feeling for would be symmetry and any
lumps or bumps, pain or swelling. Uh for
the girls, we're gonna go ahead at this point
and lift our tail and we'll be looking at our
vulva and looking for our vulvar folds, looking for
any redness swelling discharge or asymmetry. So we're gonna
move on now to our digital rectal exam. And
for that we're going to put on a glove and
we then have some lubricant. So to start with,
we want to look at the rectum externally.
And again we're looking for any asymmetry or any discharge,
any lumps or bumps. This point would also
be a good time to go ahead and get our
digital rectal temperature. So we get our thermometer and
lube there. So at this point we would go
ahead with our internal digital rectal exam. We're going to go ahead
and insert our finger, which with lubricant and
we're going to do so gently, giving the dog
some time to adjust to our fingers presence. As we're
going to want to feel 360° around the
pelvic canal. Again, we're feeling for any lumps
bumps, anything asymmetrical. For a male dog then
we're going to head forward over the bone of the
pelvis. We want to feel for our prostate gland.
For a neutered male, it should be relatively small about
the size of two lima beans or so and should
be bi-lobed, symmetrical and non painful. For an
intact male dog, it's going to be a little
bit larger and may actually be a little bit further
off the brim of the pelvis forward. As we're coming
out. We're gonna feel dorsally for any
enlarged lymph nodes and we should be able to feel
the urethra eventually along the floor of the pelvis.
As we're coming out with our finger, we're gonna
go ahead and feel for the anal glands which should
be unilateral and slightly ventral right by the
external opening on either side. For him they
ought to be about the size of a kidney bean.
They should be symmetrical, should be non painful.
If we think that they're enlarged, we should consider
expressing some of the fluid from them and we go
ahead and just squeeze gently until we get some of
the fluid to come out. At that point we
can also, once we've withdrawn our finger we can
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