This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 27 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Thisguyhasfeet ( article contribs).
I'm not sure this would make a good wikibook entry, but I've removed this how-to from the article:
By pressing in and squeezing your fingers toward each other, the glands should empty. Wipe the area clean with the cloth. Repeat if necessary. If the discharge is bloody or purulent in appearance there is probably an anal gland infection - treat as described below. -- Ec5618 15:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- Your dog emptied the vet's anal glands? Respect! Would he do mine...?
The content of this article, through its rhetorical structures, has racially prejudiced and sexist overtones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.135.60.33 ( talk) 14:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Should their be a sub-section for human's anal glands or should it have its own article? Ask D.N.A.- Peter Napkin ( talk) 20:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
It is just the term "dog's anal gland" is miss used in this article. [The anal glands are modified tubuloalveolar sweat glands occupying the submocosa of the columnar and intermediate zones of the anal canal (dogs cats, pigs). They open into the anus.] Chapter 20 (Integumentary System) from Applied Veterinary Histology 3rd edition, Edited by W J Banks, Mosby Year Books. And "true" anal glnads are also exists in human submucosa of the anal canal. The glands mentioned in this chapter is "anal sac". We human don't have "anal sac" but have anal glands. Even the title of this article is wrong.
This article says that humans don't have anal glands. But the article on Anal Fistual says that humans do have anal glands. The two articles conflict. It seems this article about glands is the one that is confusing. Anal glands or anal sacs. Which is which? 79.70.89.35 ( talk) 19:59, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Why do only carnivores have them? Some hunting-related reason? Drutt ( talk) 22:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there any vet-type person hanging around who could fill in a little more about cats? I know *nothing* -- just had my cat's anal glands expressed, and it's not oily, it looked like clumps of wet cat litter, really, but the vet put my cat on Clavamox and a shot of steroids and said this is normal, and I need to have them expressed every month until they don't look like that any more, and not to look @ removing them "just yet" (don't know when we would look at that, though). I am having a hard time finding ANYTHING about cats. How can this be normal? No other cat I have ever had has had this go on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.157.25.122 ( talk) 17:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
...and yes, I can try to ask my vet later, when she's not so busy; my vet is good, but really busy, and today was an emergency appointment because I didn't know what was wrong. I just thought it might help people to have it in Wikipedia. I'd add it all myself, but I don't know anything, and can't find a good, reliable source. —Preceding
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17:37, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Article says that opossum glands are different from those in carnivora. Since they're marsupials, I'd expect this to be a considerable difference: both in the histological and structural nature of the sacs and in the chemical nature of their contents (as well as in the biosynthesis thereof). Don't suppose anyone knows more? DS ( talk) 13:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Would be great to expand this article with a section on the evolutionary history of these structures. -- Avapoet ( talk) 12:57, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 27 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Thisguyhasfeet ( article contribs).
I'm not sure this would make a good wikibook entry, but I've removed this how-to from the article:
By pressing in and squeezing your fingers toward each other, the glands should empty. Wipe the area clean with the cloth. Repeat if necessary. If the discharge is bloody or purulent in appearance there is probably an anal gland infection - treat as described below. -- Ec5618 15:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- Your dog emptied the vet's anal glands? Respect! Would he do mine...?
The content of this article, through its rhetorical structures, has racially prejudiced and sexist overtones. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.135.60.33 ( talk) 14:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Should their be a sub-section for human's anal glands or should it have its own article? Ask D.N.A.- Peter Napkin ( talk) 20:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
It is just the term "dog's anal gland" is miss used in this article. [The anal glands are modified tubuloalveolar sweat glands occupying the submocosa of the columnar and intermediate zones of the anal canal (dogs cats, pigs). They open into the anus.] Chapter 20 (Integumentary System) from Applied Veterinary Histology 3rd edition, Edited by W J Banks, Mosby Year Books. And "true" anal glnads are also exists in human submucosa of the anal canal. The glands mentioned in this chapter is "anal sac". We human don't have "anal sac" but have anal glands. Even the title of this article is wrong.
This article says that humans don't have anal glands. But the article on Anal Fistual says that humans do have anal glands. The two articles conflict. It seems this article about glands is the one that is confusing. Anal glands or anal sacs. Which is which? 79.70.89.35 ( talk) 19:59, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Why do only carnivores have them? Some hunting-related reason? Drutt ( talk) 22:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there any vet-type person hanging around who could fill in a little more about cats? I know *nothing* -- just had my cat's anal glands expressed, and it's not oily, it looked like clumps of wet cat litter, really, but the vet put my cat on Clavamox and a shot of steroids and said this is normal, and I need to have them expressed every month until they don't look like that any more, and not to look @ removing them "just yet" (don't know when we would look at that, though). I am having a hard time finding ANYTHING about cats. How can this be normal? No other cat I have ever had has had this go on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.157.25.122 ( talk) 17:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
...and yes, I can try to ask my vet later, when she's not so busy; my vet is good, but really busy, and today was an emergency appointment because I didn't know what was wrong. I just thought it might help people to have it in Wikipedia. I'd add it all myself, but I don't know anything, and can't find a good, reliable source. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
68.157.25.122 (
talk)
17:37, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Article says that opossum glands are different from those in carnivora. Since they're marsupials, I'd expect this to be a considerable difference: both in the histological and structural nature of the sacs and in the chemical nature of their contents (as well as in the biosynthesis thereof). Don't suppose anyone knows more? DS ( talk) 13:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Would be great to expand this article with a section on the evolutionary history of these structures. -- Avapoet ( talk) 12:57, 5 June 2017 (UTC)