Little Kitty Cat TMI Moment

[silverthorne]

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?

Comments

[without-within.livejournal.com]

D: No and my cats would be on their own with that. I'll scoop their turds and that's where I draw the line. I worry about our pair having poo problems since apparently that's something Manx are known for.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Manx tend to have a week sphincter, IIRC, because of the way their tails/hind legs are configured, so sometimes it's hard for them to poo, right?