It was two years ago on this day that our Ben (Labernese’s Obi-Wan Kenobi) was born to Blossom (B2).It’s hard to believe that what we first saw as less than five pounds of feet and fur, has developed into a handsome, well-behaved adolescent, just shy of 100 pounds. He will not be fully grown until he’s around three, so another year to go.
Coincidentally, I took Ben to see Dr. Jeff today; Ben occasionally get’s a build up of yeast in his ears. As patient as he can be, he does not like us cleaning them – which we do attempt to do regularly. At some point during the night, he scratched the inside of one ear. He let us look at it this morning and allowed us to clean around the angry red area he had created. The look of relief on his expressive face was obvious after we gently applied some Polysporin.
One of Dr. Jeff’s techs, Patty, took Ben in back and added some disgusting goo to both ears while Jeff administered an anti-inflammatory shot to afford some release from the rawness and irritable discomfort he was experiencing.
At the end of the day tomorrow, he’ll return and Patty will dig out the debris and gently clean the inside of both ears. A couple of swabs will be taken and then analyzed, to ensure that it’s not a bacterial infection.
Meanwhile, for dinner this evening, the birthday boy (who’s a little groggy from the anti-histamines in the shot) will dine on choice scraps of beef tenderloin.
TLATO and I will be feasting on leftovers.
Who says it’s a dog’s life?
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