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This clinical case report described a three-month-old mongrel dog that had the urethral orifice opening 3 cm from the tip of the penis and lacked a completely formed preputial sheath. It was presented to the clinic with an exposed penile shaft that was dry. The dog had urinary incontinence that was not of neurological origin. It also had unilateral agenesis of the right testicle. The preputial sheath was successfully reconstructed. Urinary incontinence stopped soon after surgery, suggesting that it had been probably due to an ascending urethritis. A large preputial opening was left because of the location of the urethral opening.

The effectiveness of high pressure pulsatile lavage and syringe lavage in cleansing experimentally contaminated and infected wounds was studied. Such treatment significantly (P < 0.05) lowered the bacterial counts in contaminated wounds, but high pressure pulsatile lavage caused extensive damage to tissue and was considered to be unsuitable for treatment of wounds in the loose skin areas of the dog. Both pulsatile and syringe lavage caused significant (P < 0.05), but transient, reduction in the bacterial counts in infected wounds but both methods failed to lower the wound bacterial counts to 105 or less. Successive wound biopsies for quantitative bacterial analysis showed that syringe lavage with povidone‐iodine caused greater reduction in bacterial numbers than did pulsatile lavage with povidone‐iodine. Combination of high pressure syringe lavage with povidone‐iodine and systemic penicillin‐streptomycin given at the time of lavage sufficiently reduced the bacterial numbers to allow for safe closure of the wounds.