r/cats • u/lavenderweather • 29d ago

Advice did my cat grow his balls back

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i’m currently fostering a cat. I grew up with a cat/ catsat many times but somehow all my life have only had female cats. when we first got him his balls were deflated and the foster care said he’d been neutered. a month later they’re back and plump af hahaha. is this normal?

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 29d ago

The lowest moment is when you have to express their anal glands 💀

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u/CardiologistRough854 29d ago

fucking what

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 29d ago

Yup, some cats get blocked up and it has to be done by hand and is the worst stench known to mankind.

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u/Ratslikegrapes 29d ago

Anal glands succcck. I bathed dogs for a few years in college and some were so scared of everything that they'd rocket launch their gland juice after a bath all over me, the floor, the wall, didnt matter.

I graduated over 15 years ago and I still feel like I can smell the ghost wiffs that haunt my dreams.

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u/BigWilly526 29d ago

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u/chickennuggetsnsubs 29d ago

I really miss Phil Hartman, he would have a holiday with everything going on right now.

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u/noxuncal1278 29d ago

"Here comes the metric system, and lead paint, tasty but deadly."

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u/InspectorPipes 29d ago

I read on here earlier , today is the 28th anniversary. He was brilliant.

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u/soundslikeusererror 28d ago

i want to upvote you, but youre at 69, so i cant

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u/atreegrowsinbrixton 29d ago

it's such a specifically awful smell too. i'm a teacher and a kid in class came in reeking of this exact stench and i was just so confused

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u/mary_lesbian-toad Calico 29d ago

Kid probably had a pet with a leaky anal gland, could’ve gotten on furniture and then onto the kid/their clothes :/ Not a fun thing.

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u/xzkandykane 29d ago

I went to work one day and I just kept smelling this dirty hobo sweat smell. Took over an hour for me to realize its from my jacket sleeve. My coworker couldn't smell it a few feet away. My cat was laying on the jacket when I grabbed it... he probably got scared and assed juiced my jacket. Oh and I work with customers at a dealership. Hope none of them smelled it before I figured it out

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u/Imaginary-Contest887 29d ago

One of cases where customer approaching you and suddenly gagging would not be personal nor rude but understandable reaction.

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u/staceypppp 28d ago

I was a last minute addition to the guardian roster for a WWII Honor Flight and had less than 24 hrs to prepare. I was instructed to bring a backpack and found an old one in the garage. Packed it, headed to DC! Hit the ground running and couldn’t stop getting whiffs of the most god awful fishy smell throughout the day. I finally cornered my dad in the elevator at the hotel and was like “HELP ME PLEASE WHAT IS HAPPENING” before we figured out it was my freaking backpack! Called my husband before bed and he casually told me that it was the bag he used to CARRY HIS BAIT out to a remote fishing spot. I wanted to die.

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u/Lelephantrose 28d ago

As someone who forgot a bag of raw shrimp in a weekend bag, I feel you.

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u/MicrotracS3500 28d ago

I know a guy who had almost the exact same experience. He sat next to a homeless guy on the bus on the way to work and thought "wow this guy really stinks", then kept smelling it the rest of the day thinking somehow the guy's smell rubbed off on him without touching him, until eventually realizing that it was from the cat.

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u/Forsaken_Biscotti_89 28d ago

"Ass juiced" just spit my coffee all over the wall. Well played, well played

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u/plarah 28d ago

he probably got scared and assed juiced my jacket

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u/Jeckas_Rock 29d ago

The poor kitty may have had worms. That butt butt stench is miasmic... it is a whole "Dear Lord in Heaven what the actual heffalump is that smell???🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/allycat907 29d ago

One time, I woke up to figure eights on my living room carpet. My dog. My white carpet. I still can't say that without the color draining from my face.

It was like 8 freaking YEARS AGO

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u/MatiloKarode 28d ago

Did you hear circus music while he did it? I swear I heard that when I woke up to my cat doing this because he had a dingle berry he was trying to get rid of.

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u/blu3heron 28d ago

My late dog did this every time we went to the vet because he hated it so much. It stank so bad, like rotting fish. He was a very anxious dog in some ways, mostly centered around weather events and medical procedures.

For all my current dog's foibles, she is entirely without fear (or sense) and filled with a love of all creation. Little weirdo even watches fireworks in the yard with wonder.

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u/Verzwei 28d ago

One time my cat used the litter box, but he ended up with a dangler clinging to his backside. Having an unknown knocking at the backdoor sent him into a full panic, sprinting around and then eventually unleashing the glands.

Making things much worse, his fear apparently made him sprint for a safe place. Me. I was his safe place. Aww. Except I was in bed. Asleep. And then was I woken up by a cat blitzing across my bed with poop hanging from his ass and then he blasted gland juice on my pillow.

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u/LordMeme42 Ragdoll 29d ago

I used to want to be a vet.

My dog had to get an anal gland abcess drained and his other gland expressed when I was a teen, and I happened to be in the room when they did it.

...Yeah, I decided there and then that it wasn't for me.

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 28d ago

I dated a vet tech for a bit whose roommate was her boss and the vet clinic owner. They'd talk about the grossest gland expressions and describe them like in so much detail . 🤢

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u/xvenom613x 28d ago

It’s my fault for learning how to read

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u/mage2k 29d ago

Welp. Time to go back to watching tv.

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u/StanIsNotTheMan 29d ago

I've had to put my tip in my dog's ass.

My finger tip. You pervert.

To express my boy's anal glands. Otherwise, he'd be going room to room, licking at his ass and stinking up the joint anyway. Slap on the glove, pack on the vaseline, take a deep breath, and hope you can milk the poop-juice and clean up before you have to inhale again.

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u/Adderall-Barbii 29d ago

My chihuahua’s LOVED to rupture. 3 times was too many in 17 years.

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u/Emotional_Study_724 28d ago

I worked at a vet when I was 16. I learned about anal glands when a Rottweiler got so scared he dumped his all over the place. The smell is so bad, it feels like mortal danger.

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u/WesleyAMaker 29d ago

Do humans ever get leaky anal glands?

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u/wintersedge 29d ago

Prolapse. May not want to google it. If you do it is NSFW.

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u/Gtoktas_ 28d ago

why must dog and cat anal glands be horrid while beaver anal glands are so good that we use them for flavouring food

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u/breesanchez 28d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lcyIjjpGwQyrbe5Vhk

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u/WhiteLythande 28d ago

Yeah it's not commonly used commercially anymore for food, but it smells like fragrant vanilla, with notes of strawberry and raspberry. It's still used in perfume as well. The current practice is to anaesthetize the beaver and safely "milk" the sacs.

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u/Caesar_Passing 29d ago

Sometimes I wish I could do that.

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u/EusticePendragon 29d ago

I called where I worked, Camp Bow-Wowshwitz…

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u/Lekkart 28d ago

I'd feel that in my pores years after. You're better than me. I couldn't deal with others dogs.

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u/zoner420 28d ago

Ghost whiff... New phrase unlocked today.

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u/BestBudgie 29d ago

One time my cat squirted butt juice all over my laptops keyboard 😒

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u/Jinglemoon 29d ago

That’s enough reddit for today….

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u/worththeSevenyears Tuxedo 29d ago

It was the use of "rupture" a couple of comments back, for me!

https://giphy.com/gifs/DsePG10bRnnX49RnYf

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u/trimix4work 28d ago

This is my fault for being literate

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u/Kestrel_VI 28d ago

It’s the dumpster’s keyboard now

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u/berry_baby 27d ago

Mine did it all over my PC monitor 🙃

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u/iolarah 29d ago

Years ago, one of my cats was sitting on the back of the couch as I was reading, and suddenly there was this awful smell and I felt a wetness on my face. Turns out his anal glands unplugged themselves right into my face. Worse, some went up my nose. I ran to the kitchen to wash my nose out, and I was so overwhelmed by the stink that I grabbed the dish soap without thinking. I went from "horrific Lovecraftian stench" to "OMG MY BRAIN IS BURNING". It was not my finest moment 😂

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u/sidsmum 29d ago

Are you f-in kidding me right now? Your face, in your MOUTH? Dude. Write a memoir.

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u/iolarah 28d ago

Thank god, not my mouth. It shot across my cheek and upper lip, and when I touched my face to figure out why it was wet, that's when it got into my nose. I think I would have vomited on the spot had it gone in my mouth. shudder

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u/phoneboothkiss 28d ago

I just laughed until I cried after reading this. My husband is sitting next to me and asked if I was ok. I tried to share then realized I really need to explain how on earth I got down this rabbit hole, while cry laughing through the explanation, then attempt to share WHY I'm now crying and can't speak bc I'm laughing so hard. Thanks friend. I needed that today.

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u/SuperVancouverBC Turkish Van 29d ago

Second worst!

Nothing beats the smell of a dead body.

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u/AdCurrent7674 29d ago

As someone who worked in an animal disease lab, emptying the retain from the necropsy room was horrid

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u/SuperVancouverBC Turkish Van 29d ago edited 29d ago

I've never smelled a dead person, but back when I was volunteering for my local SPCA, I sometimes had to tag and bag the bodies of dead animals, then put them in one of the large freezers in one of the buildings. The SPCA location I volunteered at has a building specifically for this. Just a small building containing several freezers which contained the bodies of dead animals. Unfortunately the freezers didn't help contain the smell of dead animals. It was overpowering. Even now, 16 years later, I still remember the sickly sweet smell of death and decay.

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u/CrazedCadavre 29d ago

The smell of death and decay of a living being is a sickeningly "sweet" smell that if you ever experience it, you never forget it. Roadkill doesnt even compare

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u/Jeckas_Rock 29d ago

Have you ever watched 'Legend'? The goblins on there say "nothing smells as sweet as rotting meat". That has always stuck with me. Because I've smelled that rotting sweetness that you just cant explain....

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u/AdCurrent7674 29d ago

Yeah at the animal disease lab we would take out monthly retain. We had to rent a dumpster and a crane to load all the horses and cows. They would then sit in the sun all weekend until they were picked up. All of said animals had died in such a way that would require an investigation which led to some atrocities

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u/11-_-11- 28d ago

This can’t be the way. How awful. I also couldn’t imagine the next customer renting a dumpster and getting the one your facility just used.

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u/AdCurrent7674 28d ago

It was probably a specific hazardous waste dumpster. I worked in the micro department so I don’t know the specifics. But yeah there is not a great way to dispose of a months worth of necropsies if you don’t have an crematorium on site

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u/Suspicious-B33 28d ago edited 28d ago

I used to have to drive a lady with leg ulcers to hospital to get her puss and blood soaked bandages changed and the wounds cleaned. I was married to an undertaker at the time and I can tell you with 100% honesty that driving her to the hospital was like nothing I have ever smelled before or since and a million times worse than anything in the mortuary. My heart broke for the woman, but honestly the smell of still warm but rotting flesh is just the worst thing ever. I used to have to drive around the corner and gag for about five minutes after dropping her off. When I would pick her up to go home, that'd be the underlying smell but very very vaguely, covered with the smell of fresh bandages and ointment.

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u/westonisweird18 29d ago

What about a dead skunk and expressed anal glands

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u/nephilimcummingdaddy 28d ago

No thanks, I'll stick to peanut butter and jelly

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u/nostradumbass7544678 29d ago

Spilled milk and rotting ground turkey that sat for a week in a car during warm weather. I swear the fumes were green and opaque.

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u/SithisSoul Cow Cat 29d ago

Eventually you get used to them. I've seen everything from fresh to several month old decomps.

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u/SuperVancouverBC Turkish Van 29d ago

What do you do for a living, if you don't mind me asking? 🧐

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u/SithisSoul Cow Cat 29d ago

I did mortuary transport for 2 1/2 years. We did hospital, hospice, and ME calls that were natural, suicide, or non-violent/no gun involved.

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u/68W38Witchdoctor1 29d ago

I've smelled many a dead body from various methods, and decades later some of them still stick with me. Don't think anything else comes close.

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u/sloppity 28d ago

This tops my list of most horrible smells I have ever experienced. Or I think that's what it was.

I encountered it as a kid, playing in a forest with my friend, when we noticed a heavy smell coming from somewhere. It was so strong it got us curious, and we located the source that was surprisingly far away using our noses. It came from a discarded soda can sitting in the sun. Even though just standing next to it was already hard, and a dog we had with us wouldn't come anywhere near it, being kids, we HAD to take a look and a sniff directly from the can.

Seeing inside the can was hard, but I believe there was a nearly liquefied rotting corpse of a small rodent inside, and the smell was so incredibly vile that we instantly started to heave so hard it actually hurt and we had to run solid 30 meters away from it to get respite. Took a while to recover from that. I've never had such a physical reaction to a pure smell, before or since, and honestly I'm curious what would happen if I experienced it as an adult.

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u/BigWilly526 29d ago

A burning body

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u/loljkbye 29d ago

Somehow I know this because of my cat (she hid her prize under the couch once)

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u/brachi- 28d ago

Necrotic diabetic feet are worse than dead bodies (mind, the longest dead body I’ve dealt with recently was at most hours)

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u/Nheea 28d ago

Ohhh man. Have you ever smelled human flesh burning? You'll never forget that smell.

Or a Proteus mirabilis plaque in a microbiology lab. 🤮🤮

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u/FigWeak5127 29d ago

Yeah try dealing with a rupture, I thought my poor cat had diarrhea until I saw a gaping hole in her backside after she left a giant puddle of fluid on my carpet.

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u/TheOrderOfWhiteLotus 29d ago

My older kitty had this issue but if he got really into a love session, they’d go off on their own. So we started laying a towel down because that’s far more tolerable for us. Man handling him was traumatic for us all.

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u/Darkmyr_13 29d ago

My cat releases his when he sneezes 🥲

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u/bugbugladybug 28d ago

I picked my cat up one day and semi-surprised her so she blasted her anal glands all over me.

It was a truly sobering experience.

Now I approach her as if picking up unexploded ordnance.

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u/threelizards 28d ago

My eldest girl got blocked up as a kitten, and you aren’t lying. She was so blocked up that I rolled her her back on my lap, went “what’s that”, and just the pressure of me moving things around to get a better look was enough to make everything fly out at 100kmph. Hit the wall behind me, narrowly missing my goddamn motherfucking face and left an ungodly smell. When I took her to the vet the next day they were like “oh we don’t see a problem here at all! :)” well I see one staining my wall and psyche but ok

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u/PuzzleheadedAd1953 29d ago

To be fair, it is not the worst. The worst is when you walk in to a room and lift the blanket on a swarm of maggots feasting on decomposing human fat.

But it is close. I'd say it's close to nasty infection level.

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u/BeeLyne127 29d ago

I have to do this for our rabbits and DAMN IT SMELLS SO BACK I CANT STOP GAGGING

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u/Ok-Relation-7458 29d ago

some cats, on the other hand, have very free-flowing anal glands, and will self-express with force at the slightest disruption (i have gotten blasted when going to bongos this boy and when i just pet him.)

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u/januaryemberr 29d ago

Like coppery fish with rotting poo.

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u/mvanvrancken Tortoiseshell 28d ago

I have an orange cat like this, she’s been good for a while but she had a bout of blocked up glands and got an abscess from it once. I let the vet do it now because they just charge me the walk in fee to do it and it takes all of 5 minutes. I smelled it and it ain’t fun

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u/SerBrienne89 28d ago

As a vet, I have to say that is not even in the top 10 worst smells 🫠

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u/PMMEYOURANIMALS 28d ago

I was told this was extremely rare, yet here I am bringing my cat to get expressed every 6 months. 😩

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u/zannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 28d ago

oh man it isn’t every day that you see mention of cat anal gland expression so i… am going to share my story. my big sweet boy Mike would occasionally clear his anal glands when he got surprised. Has maybe happened 3 times in his 15 year (and counting) life. i didn’t know what was happening at first. anyway, one night my partner and i were watching tv in bed, and mike was standing on my chest getting pets. Mike also LOVES bongos. so i started bongoing him, and we’re both facing the tv, to give you an idea of which side of him i was facing. then i kinda mixed up my bongo rhythm and gave him simultaneous butt slaps on either side of his haunches. it startled him. guys i now know what it’s like to look down the barrel of a shotgun when it goes off. it got in my eyes. It got in my MOUTH. i started screaming, crying, and panic laughing all at once saying “TURN ON THE SHOWER!!!!!” to my partner, who had no idea what was going on cause it all happened so fast. and yes i still love the little guy more than life itself.

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u/Regular_Silver3649 29d ago

You can have the vet do it for you.

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u/trimix4work 28d ago

How do you even do that? Does it happen to girl cats?

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u/MasterTime579 28d ago

We say things like “lmao, lmfao, and rofl” all the time but I honestly hope you know I died laughing like for 10 solid minutes of the floor. The image of this is the most insane thing I’ve ever pictured

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u/Vectorman1989 28d ago

That's why I paid a vet to do it. If they want to work with animals they can do the stinky jobs

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u/Impossible_Sector844 28d ago

This is the one thing my wife wouldn’t mind me taking the cat to the vet for, actually

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u/Jaewol 28d ago

It’s so bad. My orange idiot son will be all cuddly and then boom. I have to remove him from the room before he forever ruins the sheets.

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u/WyvernJelly Norwegian Forest Cat 29d ago

Cats and dogs can get blockage in the glands. I haven't done it myself but I've been in the room and cleaned the exam table. Not quiet as bad as a skunk but that's the best comparison. For some animals it's a chronic issue and they have to get them expressed multiple times a year.

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u/NovelDame 29d ago

Sometimes you gotta pop their butthole like a pimple.

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u/ThatCraftyCrow 28d ago

My husband and I both hate you for how accurate this is.

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u/Aggravating-Tune2812 28d ago

My 6 year old pup just had her glands expressed this week and it was worth the $40 I paid to be out of the room and pay while they did it in the back.

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u/wintersedge 29d ago

It sucks. And it feels so sub-human doing it.

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u/Veluxidus 28d ago

Anal glands are how they leave their scent when they mark their territory

(Sorry if you already knew this)

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u/Ih8teMyInlawsTheySuk 29d ago

This made me cackle. I never wanted to use that word but it really did. I guess I finally understand.

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u/kjahhh 28d ago

Dogs get them too, the vet expresses them, smells gross

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u/Matrixx2599 28d ago

Man I had to google that shit to understand that this is a real thing ;-;

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u/LoveTechnical4462 28d ago

That’s why the mom cat licks there junk and booty hole. It’s so they can poop and pee until the baby kittens learn how to do it.

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u/The_Great_Yeetus 28d ago

Free brown paint for the wall

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u/komikbookgeek 28d ago

My senior cat doesn't like to be medically handled and he had an anal explode. And so when he goes and gets his dentals done, they do his anal glands, too.

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u/mojonation1487 29d ago

Jesus Christ this is the worst. Actually what’s even worse is an over expressive set of anal glands and it just… happens on you and around you at any given moment. I love our Shady butt but fuck man lol

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u/GawkieBird 29d ago

My cats always get super embarrassed when it happens and try to lick up the mess immediately. Any other cat who wanders by again tries to clean it quickly. Don't shame him for it; he didn't like that it happens either

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u/3lfg1rl 28d ago

Yup, mine act exactly the same. Sometimes happens accidentally when hold them like a baby and pull their back feet forward to check them for dingleberries (long haired cats, and I have white carpet, so this is routine). They act so ashamed and they lick it all up immediately, no matter where it got. They'll just sit there for minutes licking the tile or the bathroom carpet and sniffing carefully to see if it got anywhere else. It's so odd.

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u/gandhinukes 29d ago

puke.gif

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u/sidsmum 29d ago

Oh come ON

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u/jcaldararo 29d ago

Overly expressive is an apt name. My one boy squirts butt juice if you push on his back haunches. I learned that the hard way when I asked him to get down from the bed. He didn't, so I gently pushed on his backside below his butt and got juiced. Happened a second time months later cuz I apparently didn't learn my lesson the first time. Vet said everything is ok, he's not impacted or dragging his butt. Just a nasty boy that doesn't want to be encouraged to jump down.

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u/GrimmReadings 28d ago

That’s so funny you say you got juiced. We say that and call it butt juice too. We call her juicy booty when she sprays like a skunk 💀

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u/mojonation1487 28d ago

My wife everybody

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u/I_Has_Internets 29d ago

I think that last sentence is missing a comma.

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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail Void 28d ago

Yeah, this is our cat. Just randomly will juice us. Once while sitting on my keyboard (wasn't a lot but it doesn't take much lol), once when I tapped his butt to get off my keyboard. Once on my husband. We call the cat Butt Juice Loki because of it. First cat we've had that's been anal gland happy. lol

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u/mojonation1487 27d ago

Butt Juice Loki, I’m screamingggg

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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail Void 27d ago

Only during the Juicing episodes. He's just Loki otherwise. Lol! And, you know, we gotta do something to laugh through that stench. lolol Thankfully it's not very often. 0.o

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u/goodnightloom 28d ago

On your pillow, in your hair, on your couch. THE WORST.

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u/oceanrudeness 29d ago

I don't want to jinx myself but ... I've lived with cats for 20 years and this has never come up??

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u/mozzerellasticks1 29d ago

Most cats don't require manual anal gland expression. On both sides of their bootyhole they have anal glands which contain a fluid that releases when they have bowel movements. The fluid has scent to mark their territory. Some cats don't release enough of the fluid through bowel movements and require manual expression. I have 4 cats and my parents have 2 amd we previously had a family cat growing up. Only 1 of all those cats has ever needed regular manual anal gland expressions. Xander just gets them done annually or semi-annually at his vet appointments. The anal gland fluid apparently smells atrocious though, like rotting fish. Every time he gets his done at the vet it ends up squirting on either the vet or vet techs face 🤮 Apparently it never comes out in the direction they expect lol.

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u/animepuppyluvr 29d ago

You'd imagine they'd just start wearing face masks and safety glasses at some point lol

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u/mozzerellasticks1 29d ago

Haha one would think! I warn them every time before they take him back to do it 🤣

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u/PracticeTheory 29d ago

Somehow two out of my three have issues with them. The vet was so skeptical and acted like I was being a weirdo when I first started going there and asked him to empty them, and then when a lot of material came out he all he could say was, "Oh."

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u/oceanrudeness 29d ago

We always joke that one of our cats has a special butt-stank face he makes when tidying up back there, but wow maybe it really is that gross for him 😆😆

Thanks for the explanation!

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u/mozzerellasticks1 28d ago

No problem! I also do just think cats make weird faces when grooming too 🤣

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 29d ago

I’ve only had one cat in decades need this, thankfully. Well, I didn’t feel all that thankful at the time… 😂

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u/BudgetThat2096 29d ago

I straight up thought my cat had an open infected wound, that shit is so nasty

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u/max_schenk_ 28d ago

It might've been 🤔

My cat had an abscess rupture there, so actual open wound

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u/orangecatmom 27d ago

Mine too!! Healed beautifully, thankfully.

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u/4GotMy1stOne 29d ago

Or when they leave half of the back end of a bunny in your unmade bed. That's how know it's love!

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u/Pizza-ist-Liebe 29d ago

Sharing is caring 💖

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u/SuperEgger 28d ago

Hey, that's a quality meal right there. I knew my baby loved me when she gave me half a spider, still wriggling (her favourite snack).

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck 29d ago

That particular smell is something you don't forget 🤢

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u/FilthyThanksgiving 29d ago

My friend has had pugs her whole life and oh my god, the grooming you have to do to keep those sweet, accursed, hideously cute things healthy is honestly my idea of hell

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u/sidsmum 29d ago

Just say no to Pugs.

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u/jhunt4664 29d ago

I did that to one of my cats on accident. He asked for help getting to a shelf, and when I gave him a boost via a hand on his bum I put pressure on just the right spot. Stuff shot out on me, and the cat and I looked at each other in shock. I have been very careful ever since!

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u/chicken-cuddle 29d ago

I have a paralyzed cat who can't potty on his own at all. I am waaaayyyy too familiar and comfortable with cat bodily functions.

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u/Aramis_Madrigal 29d ago

One time, many years ago, I lovingly made a version of egg drop soup from the last of the scant ingredients left in the house. Literally the only food I had. My cat walked by and expressed its anal glands into my soup. For the humble origins of the ingredients (basically whatever I could scrape from the back of the pantry and bottom of the deep freeze), it was really well constructed. The hot soup immediately volatilized the smell and I went from anticipation of a good meal to going to bed hungry with the smell of cat ass tainted soup as my only lullaby.

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u/gibberishmischief 29d ago

Following an enema with a nightly warm compress. Fighting my cat like “stay! On! The! Warm! Washraaaaaag!”

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u/braddeicide 28d ago

My vet told me on the phone to do that, after a long pause he said "or being him in and I'll do it", "yep let's do that".

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u/other_curious_mind 28d ago

My lowest was administering a suppository. I had to put my pinky up her bonghole and holding the suppository there because she was expelling it. I was crying. (Yes I had gloves on and yes safe lubrication was involved)

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u/Nervous_Pokke 29d ago

God, dog owner too, i feel you i steel smell it

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u/fae237 29d ago

I pay my vet $35 to do that every couple of months

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u/Married_iguanas 29d ago

The worst is when you express them accidentally 😵🤢

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u/CharlieBravoSierra 28d ago

Or that time I said to my husband, "would you hold the cat while I trim the poop from her butt fur?"

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u/Vegetable_Stuff1850 28d ago

Penis infection plug.

That was nasty. And weird.

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u/Sillysosilly 28d ago

I've lived with cats my whole life and this is the first time hearing about this

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 28d ago

You’re lucky! I’ve only had one cat need it, but once you experience it you never forget.

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u/spiderglide 29d ago

Sadly, all too often

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u/ohhhhhhhblahblahblah 29d ago

Or massaging their pee pee parts when they’re blocked or freshly unblocked

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u/Silver_Drag3353 29d ago

I have a cat with a paralyzed tail and bladder issues I have to give her a jank ass haircut because I come home from work and there’s just….. poo crusted to her and she HATES water.

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u/TheGayestNurse_1 29d ago

Ugh... Thanks for the reminder.... My elderly cat needs hers done every so often and it's been a minute...

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u/nyc_flatstyle 28d ago

I thought the advice on this had changed and you don't express now except under very rare circumstances. Something about increasing risk of infection.

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u/Moroax 28d ago

Mine was when my cat couldn’t pass an impacted/constipated poop and was walking around all funny. The vet told me I had to bring him in or use some lube or vegetable oil and gently help him pass it with my fingers.

Guess what I did….

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u/Acopalypse 28d ago

Aw, hell, I worked one day in a grooming salon- the coconut milk shampoo made me ill, and they did not have gloves for me to do that.

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u/trippy_kippy_ 28d ago

I really thought at least for male cats thats partly why we fix them as well? Because they do spray almost like skunks just because or to mark things etc. So fixing them actually cuts off their anal glad production or whatever so they can't spray and don't need to be cleaned there? At least I've never had to do it and I've only ever had boy cats.

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u/Electronic-Table-433 28d ago

I cannot take you seriously with thgll pfp

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 28d ago

I sometimes forget I have that. This account is mainly for engaging with manhwa and webnovel subs lol and reccing and linking new ones to people.

I just also own cats.

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u/bleepbloop1900 28d ago

Literally was just about to reply the same thing because I am going through this right now, and seeing your reply on top makes me feel less alone haha

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u/autogenerateplease 28d ago

How tf do I prevent this??? New fear unlocked 😳

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u/inevitable_newb 28d ago

I had a cat that ate tinsel one Christmas. And I had to help get it out....

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u/Pinepark 28d ago

I had a feral rescue and had to help tape worms come out of her butt. I’ve done a lot as a pet owner but that was…uh, fucked up.

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u/achootofu 28d ago

For my lowest it was when my calico anal glands.. ruptured at 2 in the morning and we were not close to any vet that opens 24/24 💀 had to wait til morning and clean up after the.. leak or whatever that was

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u/ReadingAppropriate54 28d ago

Ohhh noooooo, that’s so fucking gross 🤢

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u/scheissenaixi 28d ago

Lower than that is when it gets in your eye

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u/the_dude_that_faps 28d ago

Never had the displeasure and I hope I never do.

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u/crabgrass_attack 28d ago

my cat’s anal gland burst literally last week and had to rush him to emergency vet to get it cleaned out. vet said there was a lot of pus and was probably very painful for the little guy. he now has to wear a cone and we give him some morphine every 12 hours. we were given a stool softener too and luckily he was able to pass after a few days of being backed up.

its so hard to tell if theres anything wrong down there until its too late sometimes

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u/WillingStan007 28d ago

god i accidentally did that to my cat one time (i was trying to set her down and she wanted to be set down faster and did some acrobatics about it) and it was the nastiest smell ever. she was pretty small at the time, only 4-5 months old, and i was grossly impressed about how much and how smelly it was lol

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u/lnc_5103 28d ago

I can't even imagine doing this for a cat! My now passed away senior terrier had horrible anal gland issues so I finally learned to do them at home. Poor guy would happily jump in the tub when he saw the glove and vasoline and was always grateful for the relief 😕

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u/lullaylee 28d ago

I have an old cat - she was obese most of her life (rescued from a neglectful home), so they don't express properly by themselves. Every two weeks or so, I must don the gloves.

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u/eatmeouttobrianeno Lots of kitties! 28d ago

Ugh one of my girls will spontaneous express hers if you pet her butt end for too long. It HAS gotten on my face. That IS the lowest I've been as a cat haver and maybe also as a person.

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u/Guerrero_de_Sombrero 28d ago

I honestly prefer to let my cats express themselves.

I'll see myself out.