Forgive me, I don't know what all the hoo-ha is over anal glands.
I appreciate the link b/c it's got a lot of what I perceive to be, helpful information on dog grooming, which I don't know too much about. Also, I believe that my vet told me that the anal glands would usually take care of themselves, and if not, that the groomers usually took care of it, or I could bring him in and they'd (the vet's)do it. I think it's always a good thing to know how to do almost anything for our pets that we can, even if we aren't experts at it just in case. I have never had the need to express my dog's anal glands, but I know once, he'd just gotten back from the groomer's and they hadn't done it (I wouldn't have known what the problm was) but Max was walking a little funny and the tooth cleaning lady was at my neighbor's cleaning her dog's teeth~ she'd just come from my groomer's and said "what's wrong with Max's right leg, he's walking funny" and she took a look at him and said "oh, I think his anal glands need to be cleaned" and pronto, she did it right there lickity split and he was fine. I wouldn't do it myself, unless I had to, but I live in CA, and I'm a little weirded out about the "BIG ONE" (earthquake) and I just want to know how to do as much for ourselves as I can in case it becomes necessary.
I'm not trying to be argumentative either, but since Max has been on the diet he's been on for over a year now, I doubt that they ever need to express his anal glands at all anymore. I'm sure that his eliminations do a good job of it.