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Yesterday afternoon I took Zooz to the vet's. Turns out she has a false pregnancy, which we'd suspected. Maisy used to get those, too. The vet joked we must have a fertile household. Great. Thank doG for birth control. Zooz had also been dragging and I was worried it was worms. Nope. The dreaded anal glands. This is the first time we've had to deal with this.
The itemized bill reads (and I'm not kidding): "Anal Glands Express." Oooh, what fun! All aboard!
read more »Okay, you probably DON'T want to know this, but I knew a vet who could no longer eat mayonnaise because of its visual similarity to, well, the results of the dreaded anal gland problem... EWWWWWW!
Glad that Zuzu had a good day and a treat, though. :-)
I had a vet once try to teach me how to express my dog's anal glands myself, so I didn't have to bring her in for them to do it. My feeling on that is that it's totally worth it to have them it..... ick.
Yeah, my cat needs the ol' anal glands expressed too, and it's not pretty. In fact, the vet said that next time, she'll have to be sedated. It's so worth the $15 not to have to do it myself.
daisy likes the cheese burger! :) i've so done the same thing!
Zooz is lucky -- and spoiled. Schnauzer is now mounting a protest that there are no plain McD hamburgers in her world. :-)
Hey! We had Daisy's anal glands expressed last week, too! And people think those of us with pets instead of kids don't have to deal with anything gross...LOL! :)
She was very grateful for her homemade cheesy treat when she got home!
