Not a very nice topic so apologies in advance but ever since our little choccie lab was a tiny pup,he seemed to have problems with his anal glands and was constantly scotting and straining when doing a poo.He regularly is at the vets having them emptied,the poor little fella is 9 months old now and its flared up again so the vet hss taken a swab n should get test results back early next week.Vet seems to think he might have an infection in right gland so a course of strong antibiotics may be needed.I hope he isnt in too much discomfort when hes pooping!Sometimes hes fine n goes really quickly but hes obviously pdone to problems down there.just hope we can get him sorted out once n for all.Anyone else had problems with this?
Re: Anal Glands I think this is more a problem with dogs with runny or very soft poo, so thinking about food is important. Might help to have a bit more roughage You have my sympathies - not a great smell I hear.
Re: Anal Glands Hes on Hills science plan n would say generally most of his poos are hard/solid,hardly ever runny
Re: Anal Glands Yes you definitley need to be making sure his poo is nice and firm - I was always told the poo should be 'kickable' and when you pick it up it should barely leave a mark. I'm not too sure but it's something like the anal glands are emptied naturally when dogs have a normal bowel movement. If the poo is consistently loose and runny this doesn't happen so can lead to issues with having to have them emptied by a vet. If he does have an infected and gland I would imagine this would also cause them to not be getting emptied normally. Hopefully once the antibiotics kick in everything should start to go back to normal.
Re: Anal Glands Poor boy. Hope the antibiotics do the trick. Don't know much about Hills Science Plan. If he is normally firm though, that is good and kind of rules out one theory!
Re: Anal Glands Hope you get to the 'bottom' of it seriously though I hope you do as it's not nice for any of you,good luck x
Hi there. Just wondering if you ever came to the diagnosis? My little girl (6 months) is starting to have these problems, and I've narrowed it down to food but if there's any extra advice or tips you may offer, that would be great. All the veterinarians available to me, keep offering antibiotics and expressing as a solution when really I would like to get to the heart of the problem!
