Poorly dog!

As I write this my poor little dog is undergoing an operation.

We took her to the vets last night as she had a lump that had suddenly got quite big.

It turned out that the lump was a cancerous growth on the mammary gland and it had become infected hence the sudden increase in size.

On further inspection the vet found another small lump behind the large one. So she stayed at the vets last night and will be operated on around about now.

They are going to remove the large lump, put her on a course of antibiotics and then remove the smaller one at a later date. They also said that it may be an idea to get her spade as well to stop any recurring growths. But we'll see what happens as she's 12 years old now, I don't know yet how beneficial it would be to her. I have a friend who's a vet so will have to see what she recomends when I see her next week. In the meantime we just have to wait and hope that she comes out of the operation ok, we'll know at 2PM.

You may wonder why I have littered this post with various doggy pics rather than photos of the real thing. Well there is a photo of her on my sidebar, not a great one as she doesn't like to have her photo taken so she tends to hide her head when she spots a camera, bit like her owner :)

Edited to add she is now home minus 1 yucky growth! Looking well but feeling a bit sorry for herself, which is exactly how my wallet feels as it's £201 lighter! She has painkillers and antibiotics to take then has to go back in 10 days to remove the stitches and to check on the smaller lump. Thankyou for all your thoughts.

Flying the nest

My eldest daughter is in the midst of leaving home, Hurrah, (only joking Jemma). For the moment she's moving in with her bf'and his parents until they find a place to rent in July/August. They are going on holiday first then saving their pennies for the deposit. It's very expensive to rent houses in Cornwall and very hard for young people to manage to find somewhere to live as many places are now used as holiday homes. Anyway this means that we should have a bit more room in the house and my youngest Lily May can have her own room and hopefully room for all her toys! We only have a 3 bed terrace house so there isn't even room to swing a cat, luckily we don't have a cat and if we did I wouldn't swing it. (she hastens to add.) We do have a menagerie of animals though :

Dog- Tess; Lovebird - Oberon; Hamster -Dangergface; Red Bellied Newt - Stumpy; Tropical fish; Cold water fish; 4 Giant African land snails; and finally a red 3 foot corn snake - Snakie that Jemma has kindly(not) let us foster until she has a home for it!

Well thats enough rambling for today bye.