April 12, 2005
Our dog, Spot, has had trials and tribulations left and right. Poor puppy. He’s had some many different types of cancer so many times, we’ve opened him up so many times, that he thinks we should just put a zipper in his belly and have done with it. But he’s going strong. The oncologist gave him only 6 to 8 months to live. We are now in month 4. I hope he is wrong. Kim and I think he is wrong. Spot, who is 13 and very old for such a large dog, 95+ lbs, acts more like a puppy than a mature dog.
Spot’s latest infliction is his puffy ear. He’s a thin ear dog, his breed is, and he’s developed a strong dislike for his crate, which he used to love. The last time we put Spot in his crate, he must have flapped his ear or banged his ear against the walls of the crate because a blood vessel burst in his ear filling it up. So, he had a puff ear for the longest time.
We tried having it drained. But it filled back up. Now, though, it has clotted and we had it drained again so it’s only slightly puffy.
So, Spot, or Rex the wonder dog as he likes to be called, wants to be called Puff Doggy. I don’t think that’ll last that long. I see a glint in his eye, I think he’s thinking of changing his name to P. Diggy.
My beagle has a puff ear, it wasn’t there yesterday that we can remember and we ould have noticed since he sleeps with us and we pet him alot. Is it a blister like puff pocket? Spongy with no other inflammation? No marks or head on it no fur damage?
It was just puffy. Nothing else. Just like a balloon.
Puff Doggy is gone now. Hudson and Bree are our new dogs. Spot was the best dog ever and we miss him. Cherry as well who never made it to NY.