Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Our Long Boring Holiday Weekend

Hi furiends. I hope every buddy had a terrific weekend with their hoomans, eating nummy food and having fun adventures.

Banjo went to the vet Friday to get his stitches out. His boo-boo is healing up better than we thought it would. He has two threads on the inside that have to stay in til they dissolve on their own in a couple months.

Me and Banjo have been bored outta our minds the last few days but that's nothing new. Our mom is so old and lazy we never get to do anything fun. She went to the flea market Saturday but didn't take us cause it was "too hot". Whatever.
She wanted us to pose for a picture.
Yeah sure.
We'll show you the stinkeye.

This is what we think of the long holiday weekend.

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PuPdAtE on BaNjO - Mr. BoNey MaCaRrOnI

Hello! It's me Banjo.
I get to make a post today to let all my furiends know I am feeling good.
My boo-boo is healing up okay.
Mom makes me wear a shirt most of the time cause I am itchy!

She says that means the incision is getting better.
I go next Friday to let the nice lady vet see me and I hope take the stitches out.

Mom read all your nice comments to me the other day.
They made me feel furry much loved and cared for.
So thanks everybuddy!

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Banjo's Boo-boo

Today I'm going to tell you why I have not been blogging much lately. Some of you might remember me posting about Banjo being sick last month. If not, you can read about it here.

Well we thought he was all better after taking the medicine and getting rid of the infection but a few weeks ago mom noticed a small hard mass in the same spot where the swelling had been weeks before. She kept checking it over the next few days and soon feared the mass was getting bigger. After talking to the nice lady vet on the phone, they decided it needed to be checked out. So Banjo went to the clinic and let them see his lump, that couldn't be seen only felt. The doctor sent him home with some more antibiotics and asked mom to bring him back in two weeks when the medicine was all gone.

Mom gave Banjo his medicine every day for a week but the lump did not get smaller, it grew bigger. So she took Banjo back out to the clinic and had the doctor exam him again before the medicine was all gone. The doctor was surprised the medicine was not helping and after doing some thinking, told mom that she believed he had "granular tissue" growing in his chest and worried that it was getting too close to his jugular vein so she wanted to do surgery to remove the mass.

Mom could not decide what to do cause Banjo seemed to be feeling fine and the lump was not causing him any pain at all. She hated to put the little runt through surgery if it was not absolutely necessary. But after talking to the doctor again, she decided it was best to have the lump removed now and not take the chance it would continue to grow and become more difficult to remove.

So, Banjo had surgery last Thursday morning and came home that evening. We have been staying inside and taking lots of naps since then. Banjo has pain medicine to take and goes back in two weeks to get the stitches out. I have to warn you the incision is not purdy. Mom says he is going to have an awful scar cause the skin in the center of the mass was stretched so thin the doctor had a hard time closing the wound.

Here are some more pictures.

This last picture is closeup.
You might not want to look if these things make you sick.

Wordless Wednesday

Ear-regularity

Two (imaginary)dog bones go to the first doggy that can correctly guess why the picture below, is one my mom will be putting in Banjo's album and saving furever.


























Congrats to Tank and Bruschi for guessing the reason.

Yepper, it's the standup ears that makes this picture a keeper. Mom has 1000's of pictures of Banjo but only a few where he's got both ears standing up! Usually he looks all mopey with droopy ears in his pix, as many of you have commented on. So mom wanted to bring special attention to this ear-resistible picture.

If you ask me, he looks like a doofus no matter what! BOL

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