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Today, I finally sent my dog to her vet to have her anal glands checked. She doesn’t have loose stool, nor does she scoot, but the fishy smell never ends. The doctor expressed her anal glands and told me they were pretty empty. He was only able to express out one drop from each side. There’s...

Wow, your dogs are great veggie eaters. I had never thought pups would eat so many types of veggies.

Thank you for the suggestions. I always pick up after her, even in my own yard. So I know her stool is pretty firm and doesn’t stain grass. She’s on a diet consisting of 50% Hills Gastrointestinal Biome kibbles and 50% home cooked meats (ground beef and chicken breast). I may add some veggies...

Sparkle is on Hill’s Gastrointestinal Biome diet, which has 9% fiber and already contains pumpkin. Her stool is like text book perfect. LOL. Good suggestion to use a ziploc bag. My husband used surgical gloves yesterday. But ziploc can actually catch the squirting liquid. It’s a genius idea. For...

After watching Chris’s video, my husband expressed Sparkle’s anal gland tonight. I hadn’t thought this needed to be done until she started to smell so fishy. The strange thing is that Sparkle has been having perfect poop, no soft stools etc. So technically, her gland should have been emptied...

Thank you all for chiming in. One of my sons keeps trying to sniff Sparkle’s paws due to the smell of corn chips. He obviously likes corn chips. He even tried to lick them one time. LOL.

Great news. Hopefully, she continues her recovery.

Sparkle’s paws always smell like corn chips. I searched online and learned this smell was due to bacteria and maybe yeast. I washed her paws with dandruff shampoo (Nizoral) several times. The smell still exists, only a little better. My previous dog (not a sheltie) never had this smell. Some...

Thank you all for the encouraging messages. Now that almost four weeks haves passed since her surgery, she seems to have calmed down quite a bit. She no longer urinates when being nervous. I’m pretty sure her urination in the house during the first two weeks wasn’t due to incontinence because...

It may be the whole experience traumatized her. Whatever the reason is, I’m hoping this is transient and she will recover eventually because right now using my husband’s words, she behaves like a completely different dog. I took her out for a walk in a national park two days ago. She was...

My dog was spayed two weeks ago when she was 13 months old. Immediately we noticed her behavior changes, unfortunately all negative. She used to let all sorts of strangers pet her, groomers, doggie boarding house workers, new neighbors, kids on the street, contractors coming to my home etc...

I feed my dog 50% Hills kibbles and 50% Bixbi freeze dried food (rotate between beef and salmon). She’s doing great.

What a cutie!

My dog Sparkle blowed her coat two weeks ago. It was the first coat blow in her life. It’s interesting she would do this right before winter arrives. Wouldn’t this subject her to being cold in the winter? I had her spayed several days ago. So her belly and front legs were shaven too. Poor...

Taking kibble out of the comparison, this is what the researchers said about raw vs cooked beef diet based on their research: “Our results indicated that cooking a raw meat diet does not alter apparent total tract energy and macronutrient digestibility and may also minimize risk of microbial...