DAWNMERIE
Active member
End of the week, heading into a nice do-nothing 3 day Holiday weekend. All seems normal, we get home, get greeted by the pups and feed them. Take Myra outside to do her business and as she walks up the 2 steps to the house I notice blood. Scream for Vin to get flash light and here is what we see
We both look at each other and are dumbfounded, I can't believe how deep the hole is. I think recluse spider cause it eats away the flesh and I didn't like the black around the hole, Vin thinks Bot Fly larva, as if something burst out of her. We push out stuff, which to me was seedy, making me even more nervous, then pack it with bacitracin and call the vet. About an hour
passes by and we looked again and it now looks like this. First thing Sat morning the vet calls and says he'll come by around noon. His first guess on the phone was a ruptured anal gland. I say no, this to far from her butt. But he was correct, we guess her gland got clogged and it blew out the top of her leg, just on the right side by the base of her tail.
This special girl teaches me things I don't want to know! The vet flushed the wound and put her on antibiotics & pain killers. Now that I think back, she seemed uncomfortable for about 2 nights but I chalked it off to fire works. I have heard of anal gland issues with smaller dogs and with Zeke's having to be expressed a few times, I've smelled that awful smell but I was standing not even 2 feet from her and even picked up her poop and didn't see or smell anything. Just shocking! Anyone ever have a newf with this issue? By the way, her poops are always perfect, she's probably only ever had puddin poo maybe 3 times in her life.
We both look at each other and are dumbfounded, I can't believe how deep the hole is. I think recluse spider cause it eats away the flesh and I didn't like the black around the hole, Vin thinks Bot Fly larva, as if something burst out of her. We push out stuff, which to me was seedy, making me even more nervous, then pack it with bacitracin and call the vet. About an hour
passes by and we looked again and it now looks like this. First thing Sat morning the vet calls and says he'll come by around noon. His first guess on the phone was a ruptured anal gland. I say no, this to far from her butt. But he was correct, we guess her gland got clogged and it blew out the top of her leg, just on the right side by the base of her tail.
This special girl teaches me things I don't want to know! The vet flushed the wound and put her on antibiotics & pain killers. Now that I think back, she seemed uncomfortable for about 2 nights but I chalked it off to fire works. I have heard of anal gland issues with smaller dogs and with Zeke's having to be expressed a few times, I've smelled that awful smell but I was standing not even 2 feet from her and even picked up her poop and didn't see or smell anything. Just shocking! Anyone ever have a newf with this issue? By the way, her poops are always perfect, she's probably only ever had puddin poo maybe 3 times in her life.