Besides squeezing...

[mimimomo]

Originally Posted by jadabug

I feed the green beans too and haven't had either of my two's glads expressed. Though in the last two days Jada has been scooting her butt on the floor a couple of times a day. There is no poop stuck in her bum hair. My question is....we are going to the vet Wed for annual check-ups and rabies vaccines do you think it will be ok to wait until then to let doc check her glands or do I need to take her in sooner? I don't want to let them get bad if that is her problem. I also did grooming Wed and did her potty area and didn't notice a fishy smell

It can wait. Did you shave/trim that area? Sometimes they can scoot if it's irritating them, nothing to do w/the glands & nothing to do w/you trimming them wrong. When I used to have a cat, she would scoot & actually expel it herself on the carpet...it was gross. Lol

[QuickSilver]

Thanks for your input, everyone. When Thor came home today (he is doing AWESOME at daycare!), I felt around his anus. This is kind of challenging, because it is tiny, literally the size of a pea. Not even a pea, more like 1/2 of a pea.

I'm not completely sure what I should feel, but the muscle felt the same all the way around. I also took a little whiff - the things we do for love! - and there's no odor at all, not even a poopy one. So I'm thinking he's okay, or if he's not, it's something other than anal glands.

Again, thanks for the information!

[QuickSilver]

I am a little confused about something else... my understanding is that fiber moves everything along in the gut faster. Too much, and you will get diarrhea. I would think that leaving everything else aside, harder poops that the dog must struggle to expel would be better for the anal glands, both because a hard poop would put more pressure on the anus, and because the muscles in that area would be working that much harder.

Not saying that this is an ideal poop for a dog, and I totally believe dogs should get veggies. I just would think that for this particular issue, things like green beans wouldn't necessarily help. ?

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by mimimomo

Lol, kinda like people outtie belly buttons, it sticks out. If you touch the glands (not on the actual h*le lol, but right under it), it feels like little bumps. There should be two distinctive glands/bumps. If not, her sacs are empty.

Ah ha! Finally someone who explained it so I can get it! Thanks Jenny. There is nothing there, I just feel her outtie, then a space, then her bones under that.

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by mimimomo

It can wait. Did you shave/trim that area? Sometimes they can scoot if it's irritating them, nothing to do w/the glands & nothing to do w/you trimming them wrong. When I used to have a cat, she would scoot & actually expel it herself on the carpet...it was gross. Lol

I did trim her when I did their grooming. I didn't shave just trimmed it close so the poops don't get hung up in the long hair. She just isn't acting herself these last couple of days. DH says I am just paranoid,and she is pouting because I have had a several dress orders this week and I haven't been paying as much attention to her, but she has sat on the floor a couple of times today, kind of straight up on her butt, hard to explain but it just looks funny, her sitting like she is trying to keep her butt on the cool floor(if that makes any kind of sense at all)