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Originally Posted by kjc  Haha! This is gross but pucker your lips, then insert your finger between your lips just far enough to reach down and to the side and pinch your cheek with your finger inside your mouth and your thumb outside on your cheek.
When you do the glands on a dog, the glands are right there, no further in than the first finger joint (not past the first knuckle)... |
Do you use a surgical glove and KY jelly? It just seems like it could hurt him! I do have very, very small hands, thank goodness, but I'm just not sure I could do that to him. I can externally to it though it didn't fully work this time. Even after getting - ewwww - liquid out when I did them, the vet said his anals were full when she got him. But I might watch some videos on internal expressing and see if I could work up the courage. He's only 6 lbs., 9 inches tall and 9 inches long and I'm just so scared I might bruise him even with my small fingers as I'm not sure how much pressure is required. Oh, lordy, I might just leave the internals to the vet the more I think about it. I'm such a wuss where he's concerned.