I've read about this but am still stuck. I never thought I'd need to become an expert on dog anal glands. Ddog, labrador, 2 years old. Since around 8 months, has had leaky glands. Always while he's asleep (usually when we are asleep too and he's snuck onto our bed). It happens roughly once per month. No scooting or obvious discomfort. Nice firm poops, he definitely has to push them out and I tend to see the fishy substance from hell drip out with the poop. So it seems that process is working.
He's intolerant of chicken, pork, turkey. He's raw fed (now) and happy on other meats, no signs of allergy or intolerance.
Vet says express them every couple of weeks, but I think that's not ideal. So far we've only had him expressed a few times, at long intervals. I could do it myself, but it can't be healthy for the poor dog to keep getting them manually expressed? Every so often the vet gives antibiotics 'just in case'.
Do any of you have any ideas? I'm totally over waking in the early hours to that smell and having to change the bedding and shower ddog's rear end 