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06-21-2007, 08:12 AM | #16 | |
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| No my baby has never vomited.I hope you can get some answeres soon. Quote:
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06-21-2007, 09:13 AM | #17 | |
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06-24-2007, 04:35 PM | #18 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Alabama
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| not too long after I got maggie I notices her having a foul smelling odor about her. I had no clue why. I took her to the vet to see if he knew and it was her anal glands. they've done hers a few times since that, maybe 3. She doesnt seem to have a problem since April that was the last time. But its time for me to get them cked again and her nails cut, so she'll probably go to the vet next week. But my vet said sometimes if they have to start expressing them regularly and closer and closer together, they will sometimes remove them. But he said he wouldnt do that unless she got really bad from it as its a pretty painful surgery for them and also they just dont like removing them unless it is truly necessary. But maggies seems to be doing better lately since I've been making her food and feeding her our food. I boil hamburger and drain it and mix some cooked rice with it and I do the same with chicken. then I take a couple table spoons full of the hburger and put it in the cheap plastic bags and twist the tops then I do the chicken the same way. then I take a good plastic freezer bag/ quart size and it looks like i have little chicken and rice meat balls in the cheap bags and i put all the chicken and rice balls in the quart freeze bag and do the same with the hburger and rice balls and I make about 12 for each quart bag and all i have to do is take a small bag of which one I feed her that day and pop it in the micro for a few seconds on thaw setting for a few seconds until its thawed and maybe just a little warm and I put about a handful of her dry kibbles on a paper plate and pour the chicken or hburger over it and she eats it good and she also gets the dry dog food with it. I leave dry kibbles out for her all day but usually later at night she will go eat some more kibbles. Some days I scramble her an egg for bfast and she is eating much better as she use to go all day without food sometimes no matter what I would mix with her dry food. I hope this is helping that anal gland problem and if not, she is eating twice a day now plus some kibbles. so at least i dont worry now about her not eating. once in a while she'll have a day where she dont eat that much, but I think its due to the extensive dry hot days we've had lately. taking her to be cked next week on the gland and hope they are ok. please wish us luck. she doesnt have that smell about her anymore lately. sorry this was long.
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06-27-2007, 04:21 PM | #19 |
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| Add some fiber to her food. A pinch of wheat germ every other day will clean her right out! Make sure she gets enough water also.
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06-27-2007, 04:22 PM | #20 |
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| They will scoot on the rear ends and you'll smell it.
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06-27-2007, 04:35 PM | #21 |
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| Exactly! They'll drag their rear end on the carpet or grass usually. My groomer does it (or it's one of the things they do each time Max gets groomed, but they never really say anything about whether they did or didn't or if there was any problem), but I know that if the dog is on a higher fiber diet (or maybe it's just if they're on dry food) that their poops are a lot drier and so, harder and just the normal passing of their stool is enough to empty the anal sacs naturally. Max actually never has a problem other than sometimes when he is done at the groomers, and he acts like his rear end hurts....he doesnt' cry or anything, but he'll kind of keep his tail down for several hours and keep looking back at his butt.....I've talked to the groomers and they thought maybe he'd gotten shaved too closely and had a cut or was irritated, but I'd checked that and everything looked fine. I think it's maybe b/c they DID express the anal glands and I don't think he really needs them done, so maybe it was painful just to have it done. He's fine after a few hours and his little tail is straight up in the air again. I'd try changing your baby's diet. It's funny how when you love your pet so much, NOTHING is too "delicate" to talk about, LOL
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06-28-2007, 09:22 PM | #22 |
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| I'd get your vet's opinion about this not your groomers...Most dogs never need them manually expressed. I can't understand the connection between vomiting and anal glands... That doesn't make sense to me. Usually when a dog has an anal gland problem they become impacted and swollen, not vomiting. Last edited by chloeandj; 06-28-2007 at 09:23 PM. |
06-29-2007, 03:19 PM | #23 |
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| I never experienced this with Bella at all. When I got Izzie I noticed her little behind looked bright pink and swollen (like little hemorroids) after she would poop. I thought maybe she was just sore from going. Then I noticed her little rear would be wet with a little poop, and I would clean her with a baby wipe. So this time when I gave her a bath I used the techique I read on here and sure enough they were full. Now she feels better and smells better. I hope this isn't an ongoing issue, but if it is I guess I'll just keep doing it. But only when I see she is having problems. She only scooted a couple of times on the grass.
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07-03-2007, 03:48 PM | #24 | |
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07-05-2007, 07:39 AM | #25 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Turlock
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| I talked to a staff member at my veternary hospital and she seemed to think that expressing the glands is something that they prefer doing. She said that to express them they have to do it from inside rather than just applying pressure to the outside. I did not tell her the breed of my dog though just that she was a puppy, maybe it is different for different breeds? She also said that puppies rarely need that done. I was relieved to not have to do it myself because I wouldn't know how. |
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