[Jan & the M&M's]

Mollie has been scooting on her rear and whimpering today, so I thought maybe it was her anal glands that needed to be expressed, since her last groom six weeks ago was a horrid groomer, I doubt that she did it even though I told her to.

So anyway, I watched a video, put her in the sink, took a deep breath and did it. At first liquid brown stuff came out, just like in the video, but then I expressed them again, and it was more mealy like. The only way I know to describe it, is it was like if you had a big zit and popped it, and thick stuff came out, except of course this was brown.

I was totally grossed out, but Mollie was a trooper, but how do I know if I got all of the gunk out?

Is it a problem if you don't completely empty them out? And what was the brown mealy looking stuff. Ewwwww, I'm such a weanie, this was really bad, but necessary I know. I've had Yorkies for 15 years, this is the first time I've ever done this, I always left it to the groomer and never had one scoot around.

Egads, I'm 59 years old, and I adore Mollie, why am I about to gag here??

Thanks for any help you can offer, I was clueless as to what I was doing. I put fingers in 5 and 7 o'clock position under her anus and squeezed.

Still shuddering....