It does sound as if her bum is hurting. I've heard that if you express the glands manually you have to keep it up because they don't do it themselves as well after that - and that the body kind of "forgets" to do it itself and can lead to chronically sluggish anals and even impactions. As a normally self-regulating gland, the anal normally takes care of that itself in a healthy dog. When I first got Tibbe, his anals filled up about 3 times in a row but eventually that stopped as he got regulated as to diet and much more exercise and he rarely scoots or bites at his rear since. So we don't routinely express his anals now and he's been doing well.
I hope that you vet can get little Mimi diagnosed, treat her and get her feeling good again. I'll be praying there is nothing like an impaction or infection going on.
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