[Bama Yorkie Mom]

not too long after I got maggie I notices her having a foul smelling odor about her. I had no clue why. I took her to the vet to see if he knew and it was her anal glands. they've done hers a few times since that, maybe 3. She doesnt seem to have a problem since April that was the last time. But its time for me to get them cked again and her nails cut, so she'll probably go to the vet next week. But my vet said sometimes if they have to start expressing them regularly and closer and closer together, they will sometimes remove them. But he said he wouldnt do that unless she got really bad from it as its a pretty painful surgery for them and also they just dont like removing them unless it is truly necessary. But maggies seems to be doing better lately since I've been making her food and feeding her our food. I boil hamburger and drain it and mix some cooked rice with it and I do the same with chicken. then I take a couple table spoons full of the hburger and put it in the cheap plastic bags and twist the tops then I do the chicken the same way. then I take a good plastic freezer bag/ quart size and it looks like i have little chicken and rice meat balls in the cheap bags and i put all the chicken and rice balls in the quart freeze bag and do the same with the hburger and rice balls and I make about 12 for each quart bag and all i have to do is take a small bag of which one I feed her that day and pop it in the micro for a few seconds on thaw setting for a few seconds until its thawed and maybe just a little warm and I put about a handful of her dry kibbles on a paper plate and pour the chicken or hburger over it and she eats it good and she also gets the dry dog food with it. I leave dry kibbles out for her all day but usually later at night she will go eat some more kibbles. Some days I scramble her an egg for bfast and she is eating much better as she use to go all day without food sometimes no matter what I would mix with her dry food. I hope this is helping that anal gland problem and if not, she is eating twice a day now plus some kibbles. so at least i dont worry now about her not eating. once in a while she'll have a day where she dont eat that much, but I think its due to the extensive dry hot days we've had lately. taking her to be cked next week on the gland and hope they are ok. please wish us luck. she doesnt have that smell about her anymore lately. sorry this was long.