Little Kitty Cat TMI Moment
Jun. 23rd, 2009 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So lately, people in the cat comms I watch have had problems with their cats needing their anal glands expressed.
What I'm trying to figure out is why this seems like an epidemic of care gone wrong.
Because I've never had any of my cats need to get their anal glands expressed.
WTF? Is this more common than I thought? Did I just miss the signs on my own cats? (Although scooting and dingleberries are pretty hard to miss...and when my cats have had it, it was due to other things, like worms (ew) or having found and ingested one of my own Hairs of Doom, thereby making the wonderful 'poo on a string'...
So, guys, did you ever have to squeeze foul-smelling marking musk out of your own cats' arses?
What I'm trying to figure out is why this seems like an epidemic of care gone wrong.
Because I've never had any of my cats need to get their anal glands expressed.
WTF? Is this more common than I thought? Did I just miss the signs on my own cats? (Although scooting and dingleberries are pretty hard to miss...and when my cats have had it, it was due to other things, like worms (ew) or having found and ingested one of my own Hairs of Doom, thereby making the wonderful 'poo on a string'...
So, guys, did you ever have to squeeze foul-smelling marking musk out of your own cats' arses?
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:37 pm (UTC)...And then I decided that surely, if it needed to be done, my cats would find a way to tell me that didn't involve feeling up their butts.
I do wonder though, if with the advent of all the 'natural' foods out there, if that didn't make a difference and made the problem more common. In the 70's, before the Science Diet and stuff was available to the public, our cats were fed the Purina foods...and then switched when Science Diet became available. And I'll be honest, my cats always seemed to have more stomach upset (and stinky poo) when I'd try to upgrade them to things like the Blue Buffalo and stuff that a lot of owners rave about now.
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:39 pm (UTC)I just thought it odd that the condition seems so common and yet my cats never had it.
Oh, BTW. *hugs* :)
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:43 pm (UTC)Um...I feel bad for cats that don't have cat moms that cat mom like you?
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:46 pm (UTC)I just love the fuzzies.
...maybe a little too much. *g*
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:40 pm (UTC)I only had to have it done with one cat, long ago, because he was on a purely REALLY soft food diet (...more runny than soft) so he wasn't able to do it naturally.
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:43 pm (UTC)Thanks, because it really was starting to make me wonder.
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Date: 2009-06-23 07:21 pm (UTC)Roarke-with his excessively fuzzy butt-sometimes gets a teeny piece of dried poo that sticks to his fur but a kleenex or piece of TP takes care of that.