PSSST. CLICK HERE FOR PUPPIES. THEY HAVE PINK TOESES AND NOSES. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

( There are no dog noses whatever under this cut. Click it anyway )

We weren't supposed to take the cone off till tomorrow, but I got sick of hearing the disgusting noise he was making obsessively licking at the inside of it. He's spent the last three hours obsessively licking every inch of himself he can reach, which I once would have called a disgusting noise, but compared to the conelicking it's MUSIC TO MY FUCKING EARS.

stoned collie is stoned.

( stitches and an attempted shot of Mouth Thing under the cut ) they've done a wedge biopsy on his lymph gland, hence the shaved neck and stitches. vet says that while the CT scans show the tumour to be bigger, it's still operable as long as the lymph gland comes back clear. obviously he can't say more without the results, but he did say he was optimistic and we are to bring him in Wednesday morning.

( Spike )

tomorrow morning.

These are the pics the vet sent me. These are both surgeries he did himself.

( ...How does he smell? Terrible )

* After another morning of failing to be woken up by the vet telephoning me, I telephoned them. Their head soft tissue guy was out but he called me back to tell me what they know so far.

* WE ARE STILL NONE THE FUCKING WISER. Parts of the tissue sample analysed as squamous cell carcinoma, parts of it came back benign (which the vet says would suggest an inverted papilloma) and the CT scans and x-rays don't look particularly like either. We're still waiting on some of the histopathology results (the tissue sample with the tooth in it takes longer to prepare for analysis) and that may help some; meanwhile the vet's sending all the images back to their imaging expert to look at again and see if they missed anything. He also says he's never seen anything quite like it before.

* Bloodwork and lymph gland needle aspirations show nothing to worry about.

( Spike's CT scans - say hello to Mouth Thing )

( Strange things have been afoot at Black Dog HQ )

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