Dog Health Questions: Another Look At Scooting Behavior
The reasons for scooting usually come back to diet. What does this dog eat? Often a grain based diet can be the cause. Also, a diet that contains ingredients that the dog may have an intolerance to may cause scooting due to itching.
You need to be careful expressing anal glands, and it is not something to be done routinely. The dog should be expressing the glands on his own. Messing with them can damage the glands to the point that they no longer express on their own.
Many grooming salons express the glands of all dogs – this should NOT be done. If the dog is having a problem, see the vet, but there is no reason to continually manually express them.
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