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According to Doc, it was a fairly large dog that attacked Smidgen, who was lucky to survive the attack, much less make it home. He had to keep her overnight to clean out the rather impressive wounds, repair the damaged muscle, and put in a couple of drainage tubes. If all goes well, I'll be able to pick up Smidgen any time after 9 AM tomorrow ( Read more... )

Please go vote in my Vet Filter poll. I've made a sub-filter that allows you to opt into the posts I may make that involve sadness but, in order to opt in to that filter, you have to be on the original Vet Filter. So yeah, lemme know with a "yay" or "nay" and we'll go from there, mmmkay? Go now. Shoo.

Yesterday evening, I visited Diane. She gave me a "Lord of the Rings" Trivial Pursuit game that Cathy had asked her to pass on to me. Now, if I can just find some local LOTR nerds to play it with me..... Anyway, Diane is doing pretty well after her heart attack. She seems feistier than ever and ready to kick all sorts of butt, mainly her family ( Read more... )

We picked up Aloysius and Biafra today. The bill was $745.25. *gulp ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had plans mapped out. I was going to Weight Watchers and find out what they do there and if their programs would fit into what I want to do. I was going to PetSmart to get a new harness for Chester so I can start walking him again. He's a chubby butt. And I was going to take a nice walk in this wonderful weather we're having ~ just ( Read more... )

Well, Henry's surgery seems to have been a success, but the tumour was malignant. Dr. Patch says he believes he got it all, so we can but hope.

Still though...it was a 3.5 pound tumour and Henry is very old.

I guess time will tell.

I took Henry, my nearly-15 year old Beagle, to the vet yesterday. He'd been swelling up. At first, I thought he was just gaining weight, but it became obvious that this was a swelling. So Dr. Patch check Henry out and informs me that Henry has a big tumour in his stomach, probably on his spleen ( Read more... )