My Pom and

[JO~*]

Every so often my female Pom goes into a butt scooting thing that lasts for days.

Took her to the vet last time but the vet didn’t really do much good. Said to put her on benadrill

And said it was a flea maybe. I use advantage and do not see any evidence of fleas. I also clean her glands.

I asked the vet if maybe it was worms, I’m thinking pinworms but the vet said he didn’t think so.

I think the benadrill helped the problem by breaking the itch cycle but I still don’t know what the problem was.

This was about 4 months ago, now she is starting to do it again and I am back to the benadrill and it helps a little but I wish I knew why it is happening in the first place. The sides of her pee wee get rubbed raw from her butt scooting.

Anyone else have this problem?? What helped it?

 

[minimomNC]

Her anal glands need to be expressed is probably the cause.

 

[MInx]

I have to agree, anal glands, or worms. I would insist your vet do a fecal and express the glands or you do the glands.

Good luck, Maxine

 

[JO~*]

Her anal glands need to be expressed is probably the cause.

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I do that as a matter of fact when I took her to the vet he said they were empty.

Stinky job but someone has to do it

 

[wishful]

I have had poms for 16 years.

You might want to have her checked for tape worms, sometimes they aggrivate the anal wall without exiting the body. I had one that was allergic to the carpet freshner i used on the carpets, so now I have hardwood floors throughout the house. In the winter the skin gets really dry, when you bath her use conditioner on her hair. I use sauve or frutis, just what ever you like, and let it sit in her hair rubbing it into her skin for 4 or 5 minutes. My doodle bug used to have allergic reactions to advantage, he would get ichy skin sores, practically drove him mad. I would have to get on to him to keep him from chewing holes in his tail. If this is the case your vet should be able to give her a shot that will help with the inching.

 

[capall beag]

I have a 14 year old little lab mix who does this with some regularity!

Well, it is not worms or her ananl glands............so we have concluded it just feels good!!!!!!! She almost smiles when she does it

Of our 6 dogs she is the only one who does it!

 

[Jeannie B]

: This might sound silly but..................a few months ago I took my Pom to the groomer and when he came home he started scooting like crazy! :new_shocked:

He would even squeal sometimes.

He scooted for a couple days and I finally took him to our vet to see what was wrong.

The vet did his anal glands and checked him out pretty good but found nothing.

:

No one could figure out what was up with my Pom.

:

He contined to scoot and yelp for a few more days and my hubby said that he thought it was because the groomer clipped his behind too short! :new_shocked:

Turns out hubby was right! :new_shocked: :new_shocked:

Groomer =$50.00

Vet =$80.00

: Guess I should have listened to hubby!

:

 

[JO~*]

: This might sound silly but..................a few months ago I took my Pom to the groomer and when he came home he started scooting like crazy! :new_shocked:

He would even squeal sometimes.

He scooted for a couple days and I finally took him to our vet to see what was wrong.

The vet did his anal glands and checked him out pretty good but found nothing.

:

No one could figure out what was up with my Pom.

:

He contined to scoot and yelp for a few more days and my hubby said that he thought it was because the groomer clipped his behind too short! :new_shocked:

Turns out hubby was right! :new_shocked: :new_shocked:

Groomer =$50.00

Vet =$80.00

: Guess I should have listened to hubby!

:

Not silly at all, I had to be careful with my poodle about that.

I took my little girl to the vet and he seems to think I may need to empty her glands more often.

Her glands seemed fine to him the day I took her, but I had just did them so $52.00 later I'm still not 100% sure if it was glands.

Her little pee wee was red and raw from scooting and something inside me keeps thinking that her pee wee is the problem and not her butt. The vet poofed some powder in her pee wee and gave her a shot, by the next morning she was fine except still a quick scoot once in a while.

 

[billiethekid40]

Maybe she had some kind of Urinary Tract Infection? I know itchiness is one of the first signs in people, so maybe?? Or maybe an irritation, or infection in her little "pee wee" (cute, by the way, name for it)? What was the powder? an antibiotic?