Dingle Berry!!!!

[Jennifer and Jack]

All this learning I am doing on DK is making me insane I mean so smart.

Last night, I had company over and my darling Jack doodle scooted his butt across the carpet again..Aha. I know what it is, It is his anal glands, I read this before, it happen to Jack once before. I was so worried, All I could think of was what someone said on here that when their anal glands need to be expressed that it feels like they have a fist up their little butts. I gave Jack extra cuddles all night thinking of the pain he must be in, though he acted fine. What a brave little trooper I thought he was being... Key word thought...

 

I swear the thought crossed my mind more then once to take him to the ER vet right away because I couldn't bare the thought of Jackie poo having an uncomfortable night. Thankfully, I withheld myself, I did look at his behind and didn't see anything but you know Jack is a hairy little dood.

 

We went to the vet this am, first thing, (anyone who knows me in real life knows, I don't do mornings) I had not done any of my breathing treatments, medications, or even worse, I had NO COFFEE, anyway, in we marched... Get him up on the table... She examines him and the verdict is in. Dingle Berry stuck to his butt. Anal glands are fine....Somehow I feel like the dingle berry in this situation. So Jack got an expensive butt wash this morning. I came home washed the area where he scooted again and am now able to rest easy knowing it is I who is the dingle berry and that Jack's little fanny is just fine!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

FUNNY! Be glad it wasn't the glands, Chloe went through that as a puppy and you could see her scoot but she also had a bad smell. Found out what expressing was real fast and the poor thing had it done multiple times a month! We finally switched vets when he wanted to do surgery on her. He said he would give her an infusion and it never happened again. Thanks goodness we didn't let him do surgery. Dingle Berry that's quite the diagnosis!

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Thanks for sharing too.  I do have children, now grown.  My pediatrician was a saint.  Every time one of them was sick for more than a day I was sure they had leukemia.  Why leukemia I will never know.  Their doctor  was very patient with me.  He even let me bring my daughter back several times to get her kindergarten shots - until she gave the okay.  I just could not let her be held down.  Glad to know I have company.

[Jennifer and Jack]

Thanks Caitlin, I am going to get those, It certainly is cheaper then going to the vet to have her wipe his butt with a paper towel!!!

Maryann, I have done far worse... We just never know when it comes to our babies. When Jack was about 16 weeks old, I had my family from NJ here and I had Jack in my lap, and I was rubbing his neck and felt a lump. I immediately searched and saw a bug embedded in him. I thought it was a tick but I didn't know. I left my family that just got here from NJ and raced fast to the emergency room, it was like 9pm at night. I walked in with tears in my eyes and said somethings wrong with my baby.. something is eating him. They guy took a look at him and laughed so hard. He took him to the back and brought him back to me 30 seconds later, he said this was the best emergency he ever saw, a tick that was embedded, I didn't even get charged either, probably because the laugh was so worth their night. I literally was crying. Now I know how to take ticks out should he get another one, but I just am such a fool for my dog a down right fool. I know it though and they say admitting it is half the problem. Thanks everyone for sharing your funny stories or laughing with me. I sure do know now why God didn't allow me to have actual human children.

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Don't feel too dingy.  When Roo was a little puppy I high tailed it into the vet because his eyelids were red on the underside! Yeah, I know duh?  But they looked scary to me at the time.  My vet knows me well as he has known all of my dogs and seen me through two quadruple mastectomies ( on Storm, not me) and and eight years of seizures and a growing brain tumor on Thor. 

 

He did not charge me for the red-eye visit, he said he would make up for it by telling the story to his other vet friends.  Well - Roo was little and his eyes did look like he might be coming down with dog pink-eye.....

[Jennifer and Jack]

Caitlin, what razor did you use? The Wahl is out of my price range for now, between all the supplies, new food, teeth cleaning products etc. Jacks budget is way blown, in fact, he has eaten up my spring clothes budget too. So 20  bucks sounds like a good deal to me. The REALLY funny thing is I totally know it doesn't require an emergency visit. it is just Karma coming back to me because I used to be a pediatric emergency room nurse and a lot of times I would roll my eyes at parents who brought their kids in for a fever who didn't give them Tylenol first. I didn't understand why parents couldn't be the least bit logical when it came to a sick child. Now, I have no blood ties to my dog, what so ever and I am ready at the drop of a hat to race him to any Emergency room at any time, I actually have them in my GPS in several different states I travel to. I deserve this. LOL. If God allows me to ever go back to work in the ER,  I swear as God as my witness, I will never roll my eyes behind a parents back because they brought their child in for a silly reason. Karma I tell you Karma.

[Christine & Shelby]

OMD.... how funny!   Time for a sanitary trim!   Extra special care for Jack Doodle!

[Melissa & Porter]

hahaha--thanks for the laugh :-)  Sorry for your carpet and wallet.

(Porter's been to the vet for some silly reasons too--e.g. gooey eye most likely from shampoo--so I understand.)

[Pam & Trixie]

Oh, No.  LOL

[LG & Sadie]

Definitely laughing with you! I have been there! Maybe not with a dingleberry-but the first time I saw a reverse sneeze I called my Vet for sure thinking something was up with my girl! LOL

[Jennifer and Jack]

LOL is right except for the rubbing of the dingle berry on my carpet. That is just plain gross.

No surgery involved thankfully he was spared anesthesia and just wiped with a wet paper towel, that must have cost a lot of money or they got it in bulk at costco. 

 

My vet is very used to me being crazy about Jack, she doesn't mind a bit, probably because I pay out my nose for my insanity, and Jack's dingle berry is helping put her kid through college. LOL

Thanks for the tip about the razor, we will be getting one of those as soon as I can fit it in my budget or I decide to skip a bill and buy it, which is more likely to happen.

 

Thanks for laughing with me. You better believe that the next time my dog scoots his tush, I will be looking for a dingle berry and I promise you it will be his anal glands because, Jack and I's last name should have been Murphy, because we live by his law.

 

Thanks again for laughing with or at me. LOL