Hello!
I've read several posts about this phenomenon, and I want to ask a few questions.
One of my cats "expresses" her anal glad (emitting that horrible stench and a small spray of brown nasty-ness) when she is purring. This doesn't happen all of the time, maybe once every three weeks. However, today it happened twice. Once when I was sleeping (EWW!) and I woke up to the odor and a spray on the wall. I had to immediately get up and wash the sheets, the wall, and spray "odor away" on my pillow... Then, after her morning nap, she came to me purring. When I picked her up, BAM she sprayed again! This is the first time it's happened twice in one day.
She is a little bit overweight (her sister is not). They are 2 years old, spayed, and they both eat dry food: Wellness Indoor Health. I tried feeding them wet food. They both refused it a bunch of times. BTW, her sister has never done this (as far as I can remember).
Anyway, my questions are:
1. Is this a health concern that I need to take her to the vet for? I'm not being cheap, originally, I thought it was a normal occurrence for some cats... but now I'm getting concerned.
2. I've read on this site about manually expressing the anal glad on cats. If my cat is squirting like this from time to time, do I need to do this for her? If so, how and when do I do it.
3. Are there any other things I can do to prevent this from happening?
I have no problem taking her to the vet for this. I just wanted to get some opinions in case I'm just being a "nervous mommy."
Thanks in advance for your help.
I've read several posts about this phenomenon, and I want to ask a few questions.
One of my cats "expresses" her anal glad (emitting that horrible stench and a small spray of brown nasty-ness) when she is purring. This doesn't happen all of the time, maybe once every three weeks. However, today it happened twice. Once when I was sleeping (EWW!) and I woke up to the odor and a spray on the wall. I had to immediately get up and wash the sheets, the wall, and spray "odor away" on my pillow... Then, after her morning nap, she came to me purring. When I picked her up, BAM she sprayed again! This is the first time it's happened twice in one day.
She is a little bit overweight (her sister is not). They are 2 years old, spayed, and they both eat dry food: Wellness Indoor Health. I tried feeding them wet food. They both refused it a bunch of times. BTW, her sister has never done this (as far as I can remember).
Anyway, my questions are:
1. Is this a health concern that I need to take her to the vet for? I'm not being cheap, originally, I thought it was a normal occurrence for some cats... but now I'm getting concerned.
2. I've read on this site about manually expressing the anal glad on cats. If my cat is squirting like this from time to time, do I need to do this for her? If so, how and when do I do it.
3. Are there any other things I can do to prevent this from happening?
I have no problem taking her to the vet for this. I just wanted to get some opinions in case I'm just being a "nervous mommy."
Thanks in advance for your help.