Boar is bitting the edge of his Perineal Sac
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That's a good design. I'm very glad to see it be successful. This will be an excellent reference.
Re: mineral oil -- perhaps "dissolve" is too strong a word and I should have chosen better. Soften, or degrade, might have been better.
I will say that before I started spending much time on GL, a long time ago, we would use mineral oil in a thin coating on the perianal sacs of males post-cleanout if impacted. Over time the mineral oil seemed to become goopy and the delicate tissues of the sac seemed to become sticky, almost friable. This takes a long time. I would still use it occasionally or for the short term, just not as a regular application.
We quit using it when we stopped to think about what it does to adhesives. Think about what it does if you use it to remove a sticker or tag you're trying to get off a bottle or jar or something. It seemed to be doing something comparable to the sac tissues.
Re: mineral oil -- perhaps "dissolve" is too strong a word and I should have chosen better. Soften, or degrade, might have been better.
I will say that before I started spending much time on GL, a long time ago, we would use mineral oil in a thin coating on the perianal sacs of males post-cleanout if impacted. Over time the mineral oil seemed to become goopy and the delicate tissues of the sac seemed to become sticky, almost friable. This takes a long time. I would still use it occasionally or for the short term, just not as a regular application.
We quit using it when we stopped to think about what it does to adhesives. Think about what it does if you use it to remove a sticker or tag you're trying to get off a bottle or jar or something. It seemed to be doing something comparable to the sac tissues.