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What's the most revolting thing you have had to do for your pet? Can you top mine?

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Y0rkshirelass · 08/03/2007 13:12

DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EATING!

Our cat has an abcess on her back due to an infected bite. The vet 'popped' it and about half a mugfull of gunk came out

It was absolutely the worst thing I have ever smelt in my life, a cross between fishy cat breath and really bad poo

We now have to wrestle with the cat to get anti-b capsules down his throat daily, but the worst bit - we have to pick the scab off the abcess and squeeze all the ick out about 4 times a day!

I'm torn between feeling really sorry for the poor cat as it can't be nice at all, and feelings of complete repulsion at what we have to do. I'm not normally squeamish but this really has me retching

I know, I know, I'm being pathetic and it could be worse and I should just get on with it!

Has anyone had to do this before? How long until it healed?

OP posts:

sniff · 10/03/2007 08:54

I had to help the dog poo once (not nice)
and squeeze the fishes cheeks because it sucked up a stone and it wouldn't come out

neither of these beat squeezing abecess though hope it clears up soon

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 15/03/2007 19:14

We used to have show dogs and had a successful male that we wanted to put to stud.People in the know led me to a man that 'trains' them....

We turned up at his house with dog and reluctant bitch and man shown me how to get him ready..

I had to wank the bloody dog and he got so excited that he missed the bitch and the sperm went all over the place.

I will never forget my mothers face

tinkerbellhadpiles · 15/03/2007 19:17

My SiL has to apply cream to her dogs anal glands hahahahhah (I don't like her or her dogs so I'm not sad about this).

I have to wash my cats arse because she's too fat to do so. Once a week I put her in the shower.

tinkerbellhadpiles · 15/03/2007 19:23

Hi Fennel

I can relate to the tampon incident. When my oldest cat was a kitten he ate an entire ball of string (how or why I have no idea, I have visions of Lady and the Tramp spaghetti type behaviour). Anyway, the reason we found out was I saw something long and white sticking out of his bum.

So I grabbed it (well I thought it was just stick to it).

You know those magicians who pull out ribbons hand over hand?

As it was coming out the cat just sat there then afterwards made this 'arrrghh' sound (sounded like relief).

Vet said afterward I shouldn't have done it because it could have knotted the bowel, but what do you do when you have a cat with an extra tail

chilledmama · 15/03/2007 19:43

not poo but quite grim and funny...My family had cats (still does) when I lived at home as a teenager. All tha cats were female, much more sociable and less smelly than males. Only draw back is that having them neautered is obviously more complicated! The newest kitten was due to be taken to the vets before she went into season as they can't do the op while in season as blood supply to area is increased yada yada yada. The day before she was due in of course she went into season, we spoke to vet he said bring her in once she's finished. We said is there anything we can do to shut her up she is driving us up the wall. All I heard was my mum saying "cotton wool buds? of course I have some, why? what do you want me to do??? Oh!!!!!" Pleasuring a cat to shut her up...my innocence was gone!

mountaingirl · 25/03/2007 11:44

I had to put my labs willy back in the right way! He had got over amorous with a cushion when he was about 3/4+months, out popped his willy then it just wouldn't retact or deflate!! He was in agony. I had to roll it all back in place, he was one very grateful dog! Luckily he only did that twice more and then grew out of it. Another thing was something I saw rather than did, whilst trying to train the cat to use her litter try outside I kept wondering where she was doing a pooh..until she did one one day and I saw darling dog wander up and eat the lot!!UUUURRRGGHHH!

ghosty · 25/03/2007 11:59

Oh my god. I am clutching my sides and crying with laughter here but gagging at the same time ....
Funniest line: "He's dead now. Boo-fucking-hoo" by Spidermama

But why why why why why do you have to empty anal glands of a dog? WTF ARE 'anal glands'? WTF is that all about? Why has no one told me?

PinkTulips · 25/03/2007 12:13

have a tom cat and live near lots of other tom cats so abscesses are a weekly occurrence here.

the only reason the cat ever lies on my lap is if he's got lots of scabs and wants me to pick them for him.

cat went through an incontinent patch and peed in his sleep on the bed with us in it... not a nice 5am wake up

he's also had explosive diarrhea all over the bed and whenever he has diarrhea during the night he misses his litter tray and we have to clean dried poo off the tiles, radiator, chairs and walls.

he comes in bleeding from fights and bleeds all over my furniture and shakes it all over the room.

doesn't it just make you want to run out a buy a kitten?

HotCrossPenguin · 25/03/2007 13:18

That is gross, yorkshirelass. Poor you, and poor cat! We've got dogs, wouldn't have a clue what to do with their anal glands, I leave that to the groomer!

HotCrossPenguin · 25/03/2007 13:20

Oh, I've remembered a gross pet incident I've had. A few years ago, one of our cats came in covered in dog shit. He was covered in it. We had to put said shit covered cat in bath and shower him down. He scratched the bejaybus out of DH!!

tinkerbellhadpiles · 25/03/2007 13:27

Oooh pinktulips no wonder you've resorted to Dettol

My mum's cat died after a long illness and they buried him in the garden, Brother came in (v drunk) several weeks later and slept in the bed the cat had taken to in her last weeks because he couldn't make it upstairs. In morning there was a scream - cat had clearly spent last days shitting under the duvet. Brother woke up caked in elderly cat turds.

HoppyDaddy · 25/03/2007 13:31

One of our cats was bitten by a dog. In the arsehole! Tore through it's sphincter musle and made a great big hole where it's arse was. For two months, I had to keep her locked in a basket in the kitchen. Only letting her out to use the tray and for me to clean her arse wounds and apply cream.

I actually felt really sorry for her.

Dan4Han · 25/03/2007 13:33

watching her eat her afterbirth made my stomnach turn.

Dan4Han · 25/03/2007 13:33

Forgot to mention 'she' is a cat. lol.

PinkTulips · 25/03/2007 13:51

aww, i loved that moment dan.... although i was very nervous as one of my previous cats had had his tail bitten off by him mom when she got confused after the birth.. eek!

the rest of this paticular cats birth was tres-bizarre though, she was currant shitty smelly poo cats mom and completely nuts, we'd already adopted her kitten as she'd deposited him on our doorstep but when i was about 8 months preg she decided to move in too. she had a habit of lying on your chest really close to your face swatting you every time you moved (how i spent a signifigant portion of early labour!)

one day when dd was a month old she was lying on the couch between me feeding dd and previously mentioned giant smelly tom cat. she started being very shifty and wierd and i looked down to see a foot sticking out of her bum! cue me running into dp, dropping the baby in bed with him shouting 'fgs mind her will you, suki's having a fucking kitten!' to the poor man who was due in for a nightshft in a few hours.

she ran off with the kitten a month later but is still around the place, usually with a kitten in tow.

tinker.... anything that says antibacterial on the bottle is good!

hippipotami · 25/03/2007 17:37

Some of these are hilarious!! When my dog was a pup he ate a de-flated balloon. He only passed a bit and the rest got stuck so I had to gently pull it out.

Incidentally, my dog is now nearly 2 and I have never yet had to squeeze anal glands. The glands empty themselves if the dog does a solid pooh. Try feeding your dog a RAW bone (cooked bones splinter) once a while, or add some bonemeal to its food.
Your anal gland problems should resolve!

Anal glands which manually need emptying are a sign of too - sloppy poo. Poo needs to be firm so the glands empty themselves (the emptying of the glands helps the solid poo come out - that is what they are for!!)

Nbg · 25/03/2007 17:43

My MIL has had to pull out a J cloth and a sock from her dogs back passage.
She said it wouldnt have been to bad if he'd have stayed put.
The neighbours got a good laugh anyway.

As for the anal gland thing. That is gross. Our dog does it and it is the most revolting smell.

Nbg · 25/03/2007 17:47

MamaG, am killing myself at your story

Summerfruit · 25/03/2007 18:01

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MamaG · 07/03/2010 14:11

ROFL at this thread, again

MrsL123 · 07/03/2010 14:43

"Had to wank the dog" pmsl - this thread is priceless!

May I suggest a dab of vicks vapour rub under the nose for abcess squeezing and other such stinky procedures? It works, promise!

I never had the joy of 'cleansing' a gelding thankfully as I had a mare (probably the only benefits of mares over geldings!) but I witnessed it on several occasions, usually whilst bent double with laughter. The things you have to do with a rubber hose

MamaG · 07/03/2010 15:48

yeah "had to wank the dog" jumped out at me as well lol

heQet · 07/03/2010 16:01

When we moved house - (100something, 200 miles), we had 2 cats that we had to take. The journey was very frightening for them. We should have gone to the vet and asked for something to sedate them a bit, but we honestly didn't think they'd be scared (they'd been in the car before, to vet and been ok) clearly it was the length of time that was the problem.

So we got to new house, and they had crapped all over the carry case, all over themselves, all over each other, they were caked in it.

I had to put 2 very pissed off cats covered in shit in the shower and wash them.

I began by keeping them in the carry case and turning the shower head on them it was all I could do.

It's probably revolting by other people's standards, but I am well used to poo, having 2 children with autism who used to see poo as a handy alternative to play doh, facepaints and Dulux Once

JaynieB · 07/03/2010 16:02

My dog has had her anal glands emptied - the vet offered to show DP how to do it in case it needed doing again and he refused - he'd rather pay the vet! Dog also loves to roll in vile things - I've washed off various kinds of poo (hedgehog was particuarly sticky) she also loves stagnant water and dead things (she was delighted to find a magpie complete with maggots). The thing that turns my stomach though is when her fur grows a bit and sticks into these gross little dreadlocks around her mouth - then I cut them off while retching.
When we first got dog, DP took her for a walk and came back looking a bit green and collected more bags and some anti-bac spray, picking up dog poo had made him retch so much he had actually been sick outside one of our neighbours houses....

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