Sherpa has had a certain...fragrance...about him lately. Upon close inspection yesterday (he jumped in my lap and stuck his rear in my face) I discovered that he has an impacted anal sac. Actually, I thought it was a mass of some kind and was having a minor meltdown until my sister in law got a good look at him.

Luckily it's just impacted, not abscessed. My sister is such a wonderful person that she is going to help me get it un-impacted. There are great benefits to having a sister who is an RVT with more than a decade of experience at a cat-only hospital! My poor boy, he's going to feel and smell so much better tomorrow! (We would have gotten it today, but she's going to bring some gloves home from her work tomorrow so we don't have to go buy any)

My question to all of the PTers reading this is...how can I prevent this from happening again? He eats Taste of the Wild kibble in the mornings, and Chicken Soup for the Soul hairball formula canned food in the evening. Should I start adding a little more fiber to his diet? His kibble is 3% fiber and the canned food is 2.5%. Is there anything else I can do to keep him from having this problem again?