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

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I must be doing good with the hard-to-soft food ratio, then. :)

Thanks, because it really was starting to make me wonder.

[leaveoutalltherest]

This is why I don't fall into that 'OMG! THE CHEAP FOODS ARE SO BAD OMG!' trap because it keeps me from having to stick my fingers in places I don't want too!

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just stick with the Science Diet stuff, because I know it's good quality and isn't quite as obnoxiously priced as some of the others. I figure if the vets carry it (it's usually either the Hills stuff or the Purina stuff), it's got to be at least passable, and it's already been studied to death (unlike some of the other stuff on the market now, which is more 'claims' than science, if that makes sense).