No pictures for this post, although I should have taken one of Cameron covered in dog hair after Shane’s examination. He could have been taken for the next doggie patient.

We at the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse are not going to get real detailed here out of respect for out little fur buddy . . . so here’s just the gist of the story.

Shane now weighs 75 lbs  – muscle – and has a lot of hair everywhere.  He has become a fluff ball. Everywhere is fluff as I indicated before. We didn’t realize, though, how much fluff he had at one particular spot in that hairy everywhere.

Getting nourishment in through the mouth worked okay because it’s at the end of a snout that sticks out from the furball.  Getting the part that was judged not nourishment out was a different story.

So . . . there was bottom bathing, clipping with scissors, a bottom buzz clipping at the vet’s and an exam.  End result (no pun meant) is antibiotic by mouth, cortisone by mouth, cortisone spray and periodic close clipping of inferred but not definitely mentioned troubled area.

Shane has – get ready for it – no tail or an inverted tail which exacerbates the super fluff problem. Sigh.

Our regular vet was out of town so we took him up to the LaGrange Veterinary Clinic where Miss Alice used to go with my parents. He assured us that we didn’t have to worry about the “life-threatening” part listed on the internet; we had caught it early. So we are celebrating . . . Bottoms up! GROAN. Okay, I am on my way to stand in the corner.