Bruno has had a hotspot on his neck this week, probably cause by Otto chewing his neck all the time. A hot spot is a bacterial skin infection, it isn't terribly serious, but as with all infections you want to clear it up as soon as you can.
It was healing quite well with applications of Betadine diluted with black tea - the vet would later say the black tea did nothing, but you are supposed to dilute Betadine before you use it on your dog, so what the hell - until yesterday when the wound appeared to be wet again.
Of course, we didn't see this until 5.30pm, but I still called the vet anyway, just on the off chance they had an appointment, which they didn't, so I made an appointment for 8am this morning.
8.10am. We saw our vet. He's quite intense, and quite serious, I can't ever see him having a joke with his patients. He's a good very, don't get me wrong.
Bruno got ointment.
He had his imunisation updated, it was over due, but I'm not really that strict about it. Puppies and old dogs need it more so. Anyway, he'll have to have a booster as it's been too long.
So, you know, $300 later, we're as good as gold.
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