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Originally Posted by BlueBelle  Sophie smells good, unless she just ate. Bella is called the smella. Poor thing has an anal gland "issue" in that it issues a smell regularly, plus she is really short (think dacshund in a yorkie suit)and when she pees she gets it in her fur. Not a nice smell at all.  |
My girl Diasy sometimes has this issue, but its easy to detect and easy (but a little disgusting) to correct. I am quite sure there have been many other posts on the topic of anal glands getting clogged up. But in case its of any help to you, if I smell that metalic smell (its usually not a gross smell with my Daisy, but it does remind me of wet/oily metal, hard to describe but that's exactly what it reminds me of), I just squeeze around her butt, with PLENTY of TP, and the glands release their chemical. 99% of the time, there is no problem and the glands do their thing when she poops... but its really not that hard to correct when and if necessary, and its a lot better than putting up with the smell. And it must bother the poor little thing, becuase once I saw her pick her favorite part of the carpet and rub against, cleaned these glands and that solved the problem.
Cleaning of these glands when necessary is one advantage of owning a little dog. Doing this on a big dog, assuming they have the same issue at times, would truely be dirty job.
