Express Your Anal Glands
8/6/2007By: Dachshund Lover
For the past week or so, Odie has be crying when he poops. On top of that he’s been scooching his butt on the carpet.
Dr. Thomas, our great Vet at Midtown Veterinary Clinic, examined Odie today and found that Odie’s anal glands were swollen.
Dr. T. expressed those glands and out came that clear smelly stuff which is good since it was clear and not infected.
He said we caught it early, since usually what happens is that swollen glands will abscess and burst open. Then you have a big problem.
Odie managed to get a sore on his butt from dragging it on the carpet or licking it to much to relieve the swollen glands. Odie is on antibiotics for 10 days to clear up the infection and his fecal examine came back negative for parasites.
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I am sorry about Odie and the surgery. My doxie who by the way looks alot like Odie, just went “down” last night. took him to emergency vet at 4 a.m. he is there now, but i made a big mistake and gave him human ibuprovin which they said is toxic.
I had a dog prior same age, i had to put down cause could not afford surgery. it sounds like there is an awful lot of recoup afterwards too, then need alot of assistace, right? what do you do if you work full time? that is hard…this will be a hard decision for me to make about Max. I am hoping they can do a steroid treatment…his tail was still wagging, but they cannot do any steroid until the toxic Ibuprovin is out of his body, up to 72 hours … I made a very bad decision in the morning. if I had not done that, not only would cost be way less, but he probably would have his steroid treatment and be resting. take care and pray for Max, please.
I hope Max is doing better. I didn’t know Ibuprofen was toxic to dogs. I keep Odie’s anti-inflammatory and pain medicine prescription current just in case if he ever needs it.
We had to give Chloe steroids for her back when she was about two or three. Luckily she hasn’t had any problems since then.