While we're already in the used condoms and turkey baster arena, I have a question for the hivemind. Why do (some? all?) dogs need their anal glands expressed periodically? This was referred to in a novel I was reading, and also on a blog, and WHY? Do all dogs need this?

signed, cat person if they do.

WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING UP CONDOMS.

The first time they were unused, in crisp packaging, until Steph showed up.

I was just trying to help you keep it real, yo.

(The "it" to which I refer being, of course, the Prince ensemble for Halloween.)

Not all do, and some seem to need it all the damn time -- normally, they express themselves in small amounts every time the dog poops, but some dogs have a tendency to get clogged up. Which, whole worlds of stinky ewww.

World's most expensive things.

That's so damned ridiculous it's almost painful. Why? the tea bag? Seriously? WHY?

Also, if Katie Holmes gives birth to the red cow, we're all screwed.

Thankfully, that is not one of Lucy's issues. I think she's had it cleared once by the vet (in 7+ years), and yeah, stink-o-rama. I guarantee you I'm never going there.

That gland is what they're looking for when they're always sniffing each other's buts, btw. The scent is apparently very distinctive to the individual dog. We used to call it "checking ID."

I had a cat with that problem years ago. Rare, but possible. And EW.

I no longer can see my grey and white hairs.

And why do I have the tv on PBS when there is this HORROR SHOW on? So far, ants, mosquitos. GAH.

Now we have a mouse, a cornsnake and a turtle being terrorized by golf ball sized hail and tornado conditions. What IS this show?!

And now tales of humans sucked into a thunderstorm and encased into hailstones. Now SNOW TERROR. It's got a british narrator. It's like The Weather That Terrorizes The United States!!

I'd read the baby that was lost wasn't his, ergo divorce.