Doggy Drama

The doctor called with the results of the biopsies. The mass is a benign histiocytoma. Wahoo! Also good news, the doctor removed all of the mass, so we do not have to worry about it coming back. The skin biopsies were not as exciting. The dermatologist determined that it was dermatitis, but his skin was to infected and inflammed to be able to tell if it is caused by allergies or not. Boooo. We are still waiting on the results of the Culture and Sensitivity test to find out what antibiotics we can put him on.

The next step is DRUGS!!! Callaway will be on a long term (4-6 weeks) regiment of antibiotics. At the same time we are going to change his food to see if it might be a food allergy. We will keep changing his food, which unfortunately might take a long time. We can only change his food once every 4-6 weeks because that is how long it takes for a food allergy to rear it's head. It's going to be a long process, but it is way better than doing the allergy testing for $300-$600!!

Callaway's suture sites are looking good. I have an appointment for Saturday morning to have the stitches removed. That's going to be fun with just me, Aiden and the dog. Gah.

The other day when I met Travis at the disk golf park, I found out about a trick Callaway can do that I had never seen before. Travis had thrown his disk from the tee box, but after it went over the hill, we could no longer see the disk. Sure enough, when we reached the other side of the hill, Travis found his disk lodged in the mud in the middle of a shallow pond. Travis pointed at the disk and commanded Callaway to "get it". Callaway jumped in the water (not recommended if your dog has stitches) and pawed at the disk until a side of it came out of the water for him to grab with this mouth.

Travis never had to take a step in the water and Callaway was always too happy to do the job. Travis rinsed him off when we got home and, thankfully, he never got an infection. It was a dumb idea to take the dog to a muddy park four days after a mass removal, but we got lucky.