lyndon baines

Hi all,

rare moment of cuddling between tripawd beauty and the quadrapawd beast

This is a couple of days late (technically Lyndon had surgery on November 10th), but we are celebrating his 1 month ampuversary.  I’m not sure who was the first to coin that term, but my family got a real kick out of it.  I can’t believe that it has already been a month… and then in some ways it feels like it happened a long time ago. 

We’re still having some challenges with Lyn, basic stuff like the slippery deck, his quadrapawdsiblings and the licking.  He has an obsession with the little muscle pad that the surgeon left so that he can sit more easily and comfortably.  I don’t think it hurts, but he really likes to lick it… he’s licked all the hair off of that little area! 

Incision area as seen on day #7 of recovery

Incision area as seen today

The other problem is one we’ve been combating for years, and I thought since this was a dog site that maybe someone had some insights or suggestions.  Lyndon has the driest skin of any creature I have ever seen.  He always has flakes of skin just sluffingoff of him… it’s like living witha poorly groomed snake.  The worst thing is that it makes him very itchy.  It wasn’t that big a problem before, but now that he has no scratching power on one side its becoming more irritating for him.  Poor baby… Yesterday he reached his head down to his bad side (like he used to do when he was scratching his head with his foot)but nothing happened, so he looked at his incision site all confused, like “why aren’t you scratching me, didn’t you hear me say I had an itch?”  poor little guy. 

So sleepy

Still, I’m so proud of the progress he has made and what a strong little man he is.  I’m so happy that he came into my life and that I get to keep him…Lopsided and picked on by the siblings, but happy and now healthy.