Poor Pippa

Another trip to the vet today for Pippa after we discovered on Saturday afternoon a rather large lump on her left chest wall (adjacent to the one that was removed in July). The lump wasn't causing any problems for Pippa - it wasn't sore to touch and she was still eating normally and running around like a mad thing. I was again nervous as the vet said it should come out because it has come up fairly quickly, was a reasonable size and he couldn't guarantee it was related to the original lump.

The vet was great as although he had already 5 operations on his list today he managed to squeeze her in. During the afternoon I received a phone call from him letting me know that the surgey had gone well. The lump was another abscess but unlike last time the offending foreign body - 2 grass seeds - had been located! He believed that the seeds had been in there since the summer tracking along the side of her chest.

Pippa is back home now, a little sore and sporting a bald spot with a couple of stitches. Hopefully that's our last visit to the vet for a while.