<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">By which I mean those who are down in the rear. Here is what we ran into with Nigel-- one of the problems anyway-- when he went down in the rear but insisted on dragging himself around:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nigel, intact, was ah......um....built like a stud horse. No kidding he was.ah.... his nebberminds were huge and when he dragged himself about he abraded the skin right off them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So clearly we would not be breeding so we elected to neuter him, remove the problem altogether. And because he would continue scooting and there would be skin there from the empty scrotal sac, we elected to have an ablation-- have the scrotum removed totally, the sac and everything. It helped a lot, but we also had to wrap back legs now and then when he began to scoot again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We never did find a workable containment system for his incontinence despite Val's valient efforts to help us.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Good Luck</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">MomPerson to Merta Lou & Doc                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     </div></div>