More Doggie Woes

He just finished his antibiotics last night. The lump on his neck is gone and he's been doing very well.

Tonight I'm petting him and realize he has a friggen tick on his neck. I got it out, head and all. But what is with him?? I think he's trying to drive me crazy. I told DH, no more unsupervised running around in the yard. They keep getting into these bushes that need to be trimmed back.

And people wonder why I don't have kids, my dogs keep me busy enough.

Doggie Update

He is OK!

The lump is inflammatory cells, not cancerous, not even a cyst. It could have been caused by any number of things like trauma, bug bite, infected scratch. However it happened I am just so relieved it's not anything more serious. So he starts his 10 days of antibiotics tomorrow and we'll just keep an eye on the lump to make sure it doesn't grow or start to bother him.

Thanks for the comforting posts everyone, I really appreciate it.

Stressful day

Well, we closed on the new house on Tuesday and have been going back and forth from our apartment to the new hosue since the closing. Except for tonight, we took a night off but unfortunately it wasn't for fun.

Last night I found a large (egg sized) lump in my male dogs neck. So we took him to the Vet this evening and we still don't know what's up.

Other than the lump he's perfectly healthy. A little overweight (but this has been an issue for years). His heart and stomach sound good and he doesn't have any swelling, even his other lymph nodes look good. He's eating, drinking and going to the bathroom normally. He's also full of energy just as he always is.

So the Vet did a biopsy and a blood test and we'll know either tomorrow or Saturday. I'm worried, he's my baby and I just want to know he's okay.

Dangerous Dog Walking

DH and I took our dogs for a walk tonight. They've been locked in the house a lot because the weather has been just brutal so we decided that since it was finally a comfortable night we'd let them stretch their paws a bit.

My male dog, the older of the two is usually quite smart. When he wraps himself around a tree or a telephone pole all we have to say is "come around" and he does. Tonight he wraps around a small tree and just as I am about to tell him to come around, he lifts up his leg and pees, it flew right at me! I jumped out the way while DH laughed his ass off behind me.

I think from now on I'll let DH deal with male dog and I'll take the female who may not be as smart, but at least she squats to pee.