Thursday, June 7, 2007

Mugger had his surgery


Just thought that I would update everyone. He had his surgery Tuesday. I have some before and after photos. I will warn you, the saved head and stitches are a little shocking.


This is Mugger's bump on the head before...




and this is what he looks like now...






This is what the bump on his tongue looked like...

Close up...



I haven't been able to get an after photo of the tongue yet. He hasn't been panting long enough for me to get out the camera and get a photo of it. I will tell you that the spot where the bump on the tongue used to be is pink.

He is doing pretty good. He sleeps a lot (like he always did). He got up and greeted a customer yesterday for the first time at about 3-4pm. He can't have crunchy food yet (which means no cookies), and he can't eat grass for a while (he loves grass - especially the broad leaf kind - it is sweeter). He gets his stitches out on June 18. He has only worn the cone head collar once and that was when we brought him home. He will probably have to wear it again when the hair starts to grow back and he will be itchy.

2 comments:

Valerie said...

Poor Mugger Bear!

Nobones said...

Poor dogie, I hope he recovers well from his op and soon eating cookies again.