Poor Sadie.  She has suffered through three ear hematomas in her left ear, due to her excessive head shaking when she had itchy ear infections.  Each time, Dr. Nina had to make an incision in Sadie’s ear to relieve the pressure from the blood that had built up inside the ear and inject her ear with a steroid.  Sadie had her ear bandaged to her head each time and she had to wear a cone for weeks to prevent her from shaking her head and scratching at her ear.

This time was one hematoma too many, because the cartilage in Sadie’s ear has been so damaged that the ear won’t stand up any more and now she has one normal prick ear and one floppy ear.  Her traditional Scottie looks are gone forever, so it’s a good thing that Wen had a nice portrait of Sadie taken at Red Rocks last summer so that we have a really nice picture of her before the ear hematomas broke down the cartilage in her left ear.

It’s kind of sad that Sadie will never look the same, but she is so happy to not be wearing a bandage and the cone that she doesn’t seem to care if one of her ears doesn’t stand anymore.

 

For once, the Denver weather forecasters were actually accurate when they said that we’d get a dusting of snow overnight.  What a surprise!  Normally they underestimate our snow totals, so waking up this morning to a dusting of snow and then the sun coming out was a pleasant surprise, because we Scotties are ready for spring!

Sadie saw Dr. Nina for a recheck yesterday to see how her ear hematoma was doing.  Wen was concerned that Sadie was shaking her head incessantly and that her ear could refill with blood, so Dr. Nina removed most of the Elastikon tape that was wrapped around her head that seemed to be bothering her.  Sadie still has tape on her ear and she’s still wearing the cone, but at least she’s not so restricted anymore, so hopefully she’s making progress.  If this doesn’t work, she may have to have surgery, so cross your fingers!

 

Just when we were getting used to nice weather in the 50’s and 60’s, a snow squall blew through yesterday.  It only lasted a few hours, but it looked like a blizzard and it dumped several inches of snow on us.

That’s pretty typical of Colorado this time of year.  One day people are out and about wearing shorts as we Scotties are out in the yard enjoying the sunshine and the next day, we’re all dealing with a snowstorm.

What’s that?  Something smells good!  Is that French toast you’re eating?

What happens when Wen does random searching online?  She inevitably finds Scottie stuff!  Our latest acquisition is a Scottie planter from Petforhouse that came in both black and white and in three different sizes.  After looking at tons of dog breed planters, cat planters, and other animals, she decided that we needed the large Scottie planter in white.

The planter arrived as a kit that needed to be assembled, but it was easy to build and in a few minutes, the planter was ready to go.  It can be used outdoors, but Wen wants to use it as a decoration inside.  Festive, huh?

Oh, no, not again!  Unfortunately, Wen discovered that Sadie had another ear hematoma the other day.  This time she wasn’t shaking her head or scratching at her ear like she had the two previous times, so there was no obvious warning.

Sadie had looked perfectly normal early that morning, but several hours later, Wen caught her slinking across the living room floor with her tail tucked, as if she had done something wrong and when she picked up Sadie, Sadie let out a scream.  Not only did she feel as if she had a fever, but her left ear had filled up with blood, so off to the vet they went.

Dr. Nina repaired Sadie’s ear hematoma and she was back home in three hours with her head wrapped and wearing a cone.  Hopefully her ear will heal without any issues and this will be the last hematoma she gets, but it will take many weeks to heal.  It’s too bad that Sadie is susceptible to those darn allergies that are responsible for itchy ear infections that make dogs shake their heads.  It’s even worse that this is the third ear hematoma that she’s had!  Poor Sadie!

Lucky me!  My wardrobe just got a boost!  Wen came home with a new baseball cap and a hoodie for me.  How do I look?  Do I look cool?

Sometimes when we go outside first thing in the morning, we Scotties like to sit on the deck and check out what’s going on around us.  We listen for other dogs in the neighborhood and for birds during the warm months and we are always on the lookout for bird and squirrel intruders.  It’s our version of an early morning watch over our territory, because we Scotties are in charge of defending our home.  Okay, and maybe we’re just plain nosy!

Our mom, Wen has a really bad cold right now and we Scotties have heard a lot of coughing and sneezing lately.  She has spent a lot of time on the couch the last couple of days and all three of us have kept her company because we are a loyal crew.  No cold is going to keep us from  doing our duty of keeping watch over our mom!