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My dog has flaky black spots around his genitals. Is it normal?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Pekingese | Male | neutered | 6 years and 7 months old | 13 lbs

My dog has 2 black spot on him on each side of penis there kinda flakey I'm not sure what they are one kinda came off but he also has these tiny speckles of black spot near them to

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Answered By Bobbi Musgrove, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on May 26th, 2017

Thankfully those are totally normal areas of pigment accumulation in the skin. Often they flake off like any other dead skin cells that are exfoliated by the body. It is common to see this around the genitals in dogs and there is no reason to be concerned. Cheers!

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