This may be a strange question. My dogs anal glands are constantly leaking.?

Ths is NOT normal! Anal glands should NOT fill or leak, especially constantly or right after being emptied. Frequently full anal glands (most commonly) indicates the dog has food allergies. You could do allergy testing. But this vet sounds like an IDIOT (that just enjoys taking your money, not solving any problems). So I also suggest you find a new one, ASAP.

If you do not want to bother with food/allergy testing and if the glands will not stay resolved after being emptied (by another perhaps more competent vet) then you need to have the glands surgically REMOVED, as they can abccess or worse - become impacted. They can also RUIN your carpet & the smell of your home. The surgery is not too complicated & the dog can recover quickly. Yes, I had it done on a dog.

First of all, dogs do not have anal glands. They are actually sacs.

My dog needs his expressed every couple of months. He has thick tissue around the sacs and so they are very hard to express. They have to be done internally or they fill up faster.

I asked my vet why he has to have it done so often, and he told me that all dogs are different. Some need to have it done every month or so, while others don't need to have it done for months.

I would ask Banfield about this. It's quite possible that your dog has an infection and needs antibiotics. I would have a talk with the vet, because they should not be be leaking at all.

Personally, I would find a new vet. I don't care much for the ones at PetSmart. It's a chain of vets that rent out a space in Petsmart. I would find a regular vet that knows more about this.

Right. For starters your dog's glands should NOT need manually emptying that often. These are scent glands and even if manually drained, they WILL refill because they are not meant to be empty. When working as they should, they express just a small amount of fluid every time a normal stool is passed. When there are times of abnormal stools, loosness/diarrhoea, they may well become too full, and maybe infected too. When this happens, and always get a qualified vet to drain them so he sees what comes out, the normal treatment is to flush the glands properly, and pack with antibitics. Oral antibiotics rarely do the job.

Obviously the treatment that's being given isn't correct so you need to find a vet who knows what they are doing and get your poor dog treated properly.

And look to the diet (so he has regular, normal stools) because if the original reason for this is still there, it will continue. If left (although if your dog's glands are self-draining this is less likely), these glands can rupture.

And if they can't ben sorted, out, they may have to be removed but I'd try to avoid this because it's a nasty surgery! We had one who had his glands removed, and I've avoided having this done on any other of mine!

Your dog may have an anal sac infection. Remember, they are not really "glands." Your vet can give you antibiotics if this is the case.

A possibility is that the expressed liquid is spraying onto your dogs fur around the anus. And you are just smelling the pungent odor until it goes away. A little bit of that stuff goes a long way!

im sorry that this isn't super helpful but that sounds really bad and I don't think it's normal at all so if I were you I would try to go to a few different vets to see if they say different things, maybe one vet will actually be helpful.