I don’t think that I can take it.
Cause it took so long to bake it.
And I’ll never have that recipe again.
Oh no.
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Main character of Mr. Mercedes has a tortoise specifically for this reason. “Fred is gonna outlive us all. Will never have to deal with pain like that” after talking to a guy who’s dog gets got during the show.
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I’ve decided to read -0- words in this thread and just look at pictures.
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I’m reading this thread back to front and yeah, one reason dogs scoot their butts is to put pressure on the glands themselves and alleviate the problem and it usually doesn’t become a chronic issue. The normal situation is the glands are expressed when the dog poops.
good boy
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Two word proof that there is no designer deity…
Anal
Glands
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Ugh yes. Our pup has leaked on our couch several times. That shit smells horrendous.
Don’t know if I’ve gotten lucky, feed my dogs the right thing, or picked a better breed but never had to deal with butt glands.
I’ll eat some cheese and come visit.
I read it’s more of an issue in small breeds. Ours is a lab/pointer/mutt mix, ~40lbs at 7 months so not exactly small. Our theory is that she procrastinates instead of shitting because she wants to explore everything, so she isn’t shitting as much as she should be and isn’t expressing her glands properly. Occasional bouts of diarrhea probably don’t help; I think solid poop is much better at expressing them.
Related to the above, we’re having a hard time getting her on a regular poop schedule. Sometimes it’s once a day, sometimes it’s four times. Does everyone else’s dog poop on a regular schedule?
Did you crate train? I heard its really important in getting them on a schedule
Yea, she’s crated every night. During the day while we work we keep her in a pen connected to the crate, so she normally sleeps in the crate during the day too.
She’ll pee on a regular schedule, depending on water intake (we actually have her responding pretty reliably to “go potty” when we want her to pee). She just won’t shit and prefers to chase birds and eat mulch.
If your dog picks a spot on the walk to go then try returning to that same spot. Routines help.
One of mine usually shits in the morning and after dinner. The other one shits when we go for a walk, doesn’t matter what time we walk at he’ll go 2-3 times during it.
Welp, went out to dinner (down the block) and had a long wait so I ran home after ordering to feed our dog. Turns out she escaped her pen and found a bag of Hall’s cough drops. As best I can tell from the wrapper remnants she ate 7 of them. Thankfully not the sugar free variety so no xylitol, but still on the phone w/ animal poison control right now (on hold). Very frustrated.
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Excellent call for today at least.
My father in law has a dashhund and he was always telling us how great he was. Always obedient, dedicated, just an amazing dog. So we had to pick up Bentley up from their house in Louisiana and dog sit him for a bit.
Get him in the car, no problem. Guy’s showing his worth being a good dog. About 10 minutes a smell like death came through car. Absolutely disgusting. We realized it was Bentley and called the father in law to let him know something was seriously wrong with Bentley.
You could hear the embarrassment in his voice and he said, kinda mumbling, "well you know his glands, those anal grounds when he gets excited and they haven’t expressed them, it smells pretty bad. Does it smell like death? Yea that’s it. It smells like that when I go to the grocery store, oh but he’ll be in the car with yall for a few hours. Well I’m sorry "
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Aye sorry for the sad story but all dogs go to heaven.
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That sucks I was hoping to be reunited.
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