Aug 25 2011, 04:15 PM
QUOTE(Cinnamon Chan @ Aug 25 2011, 02:34 PM)
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Since we are on this topic... does anyone here do your own anal gland expressing on your poodles? Just that smaller breeds need expressing when it looks "full" to avoid scooting, infection etc. I perform it on my own after having the vet shown it to me on how it's done and watching lots of video on youtube. I told my other friends about this and she says it's very gross and would ask the groomers to do it for them, haha! I just thought, I send bebe for grooming once in 2 months and sometimes his anus area looks full after a month of grooming, what happens then?
And once, I had a very bad experience at this petshop/grooming place. I asked one very young groomer if she could just do the anal expressing for me. She charged me RM10, and after that when I looked at bebe's anal area, it was VERY bruised!!! It looks like, pardon the description, like when someone gives a very bad 'love bite', and the scar stays red and scraped for the first few hours. Even his tail is bruised! She covered it up by saying, his anal gland is very infected and wanted me to buy some products with an unknown name to treat the area. I told her it doesn't look infected, it looks like someone scraped it with a knife! After that, I only send my precious bebe to groomers that I trust and are gentle to him.
i was shown how to express the anal gland during bath time for my maltese by my breeder, so i normally do it every bath time.... the small amount of liquid that squirts out really smells awful.... there was once i aimed wrongly and it hit my sleeves.... Since we are on this topic... does anyone here do your own anal gland expressing on your poodles? Just that smaller breeds need expressing when it looks "full" to avoid scooting, infection etc. I perform it on my own after having the vet shown it to me on how it's done and watching lots of video on youtube. I told my other friends about this and she says it's very gross and would ask the groomers to do it for them, haha! I just thought, I send bebe for grooming once in 2 months and sometimes his anus area looks full after a month of grooming, what happens then?
And once, I had a very bad experience at this petshop/grooming place. I asked one very young groomer if she could just do the anal expressing for me. She charged me RM10, and after that when I looked at bebe's anal area, it was VERY bruised!!! It looks like, pardon the description, like when someone gives a very bad 'love bite', and the scar stays red and scraped for the first few hours. Even his tail is bruised! She covered it up by saying, his anal gland is very infected and wanted me to buy some products with an unknown name to treat the area. I told her it doesn't look infected, it looks like someone scraped it with a knife! After that, I only send my precious bebe to groomers that I trust and are gentle to him.
its a rather simple procedure to do IMO....
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