Collie's going through Puberty!

I came home from school today and noticed that Collie was having a massive erection. No, it's not just any ordinary erection, he had two rock hard bulges protruding from near the base of his doggyhood. My first reaction was like 'Holy crap, what on earth happened to your nuts?' Then I noticed that those bulges weren't his balls, his puny doggy-jewels were much further back! So then the next thing which came to my mind was that some testicle-looking tumour was growing on Collie's doggyhood!


Random picture of 2 golf balls which has nothing to do with this post

OMG! What should I do? Call the vet? But then Collie's too young to have a tumour! He's not even one year old (in dog years)! It's like diagnosing a 3 year old kid with breast cancer. Totally absurd! So I turned to Google, my best friend. One quick search and I got my answer. Basically, this perturbed (and hilarious too) guy who found the very same lump on his dog posted this question on Yahoo! Answers and some dog expert (thank you!) answered him.

His question:

My 7month old french bulldog/pug mix has a weird lump in his penis. Its almost like another set of balls? Im going be getting him fixed in a few weeks. But what would cause this. They are very hard and don't seem to be bothering him. Sometimes they are more noticeable than other times. But just noticed today. His Testicles did drop so its not that?Please not smart #$% replies only serious ones please. He is going to the bathroom fine and isn't acting any different. What should I do?

Dog expert's reply:

dogs have a bulbous gland on the penile shaft that swells when excited or stimulated. when dogs breed they TIE the male and female sty tied for quite a while and this bulbous gland helps keep the male inside the female. it is VERY normal and will not be removed when neutered, after the neuter it can take anythign from a couple of weeks to a couple of months for some of the sexual dominat behaviours to subside, but after hes all healed up the appearance of this lump in the shaft shoudl decrease. and THANK YOU for getting him neutered

Hey hey! New trivia for today! And welcome, all you vet wannabes out there. Phew, I'm relieved Collie isn't going to die anytime soon!



P.S. Incase some of you were wondering... no, I did not take a picture of Collie's 'tumour'.