Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Boxer | Female | unspayed | 1 year and 11 months old | 161 lbs
My female dog gets a bump or two on the further outside of her vulva only during her heat cycles. They look like what a misquote bite or ingrown hair bump looks like. Could this be canine herpes?
1 Answer
Published on August 24th, 2019
Canine herpes does not show as bumps around the vulva like human herpes can do. Canine herpes causes a fatal hemorrhagic disease in puppies less than two to three weeks old. Mera doesn't have canine herpes.
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