Advice on small dogs.

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  • Ivoryelaine
    Ivoryelaine Posts: 18 Member
    Your dog has impacted anal glands. A vet can fix it and so can a good grooming shop. Take him to one or the other. ( some big dogs can get this too)

    To keep him from getting it again our vet suggested that we get the dogs more fiber, especially pumpkin. Of course our little guy with the most issues does not LIKE pumpkin by itself....so I took a pumpkin oat cookie recipe and substituted meat drippings for butter, removed all of the sugar and added nutritional yeast, oat bran and kelp and made dog cookies. All the dogs love them. Better yet, no more impacted anal glands either....yay!
  • piggydog
    piggydog Posts: 322
    your dog needs a vet not a groomer

    I know that. The groomer cleans his anal glands. I'd rather pay twenty dollars to try and solve the problem, then pay a vet two hundred dollars to do the same thing. Did you not notice that I said if the problem persists, I will take him to the vet? :flowerforyou:

    If you know that, why would you go to the groomer first? It does NOT cost $200 to express anal glands. If you had, say, a lump on your head causing you pain, would you go to the hairdresser to have it checked first?

    I'm not sure if you're illiterate or what, but I just said that my groomer offers anal gland cleaning as a service. I took my dog today, and had his glands cleaned and he's fine now. They were just filled and needed to be expressed.

    Tl;dr - Today I paid twenty dollars to have his glands cleaned by the groomer instead of paying the vet to do the same exact action for two hundred dollars. Yes, my vet is two hundred dollars per visit.


    You need to find a new vet...

    I wouldn't trust a groomer to do anything medical on my dogs period.....

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