News update.
Toby guide dog is doing great, he's enjoying life with us, and the cats are getting used to being barked at. Hopefully he's starting to lose a bit of weight. Target is to get him down about 8kg if possible, depending on how long he's with us. Somehow managed a walk yesterday whilst only getting rained on a bit. Both doggo's needed a good dry, so got to model some fleece coats.
The news on Cookie isn't so great. On Friday his latest scab/mat started to crack and peel, and his teeny hernia from neutering got a bit bigger, so I asked to take him to the vets as TLC clearly wasn't enough. The vet was quite concerned, and after basic treatment on Friday, he went back Mon morning for 'proper' work. By the morning he'd ripped off most of the scab, and looked very bad. Vet thought that he may have to do a graph, possibly taking tissue from his upper back, and spinning it round to cover head/shoulders.
Of course, and to nobody's surprise given our appalling past success rate at fostering, he's gotten under our skin now (as well as his own), so I offered to pay for treatment as it could get high. But .....
Better news on pick up, under general anesthetic the damage wasn't right the way through the skin tissue layer, so it can still repair/regrow without full graphs. And his hernia, was gone, just a small protrusion following the neutering. So we got him back in a body suit (which he previously pulled down), and a hood (cone of shame, that would rest on the wound) ...... but the vet stitched the cone to the top of the suit - what a great and simple solution.
I crated him last night, as he was groggy, but went to keep him company and watch some Youtube (RE and EV vids .... of course) early this morning, and he was as sweet as ever, laying next to me on the floor.
Fingers crossed, the dressings, and body armour, will keep him safe, and in 10days we go back, hoping to see the skin repairing itself.
So all animals doing well. But ironically, not so much the humans - Wifey went to school on Thurs, she volunteers to help infants with reading, and (yet again) by Fri morning we were both rotten with colds. I'm sure kids are just walking bags of germs at that age. Gonna try First Defence, the nasal spray this week, maybe dose ourselves up from Wed evening through Fri, and see if that works.
Right, time to feed/fuss the doggos.