We Scotties slept in a little longer this morning, due to the lack of early morning sunshine that normally pours in our bedroom windows.  Yep, it’s a gloomy rainy day today, thanks to a cold front moving through and we Scotties were greeted with drizzle when we went out in our backyard.

What’s our favorite thing to do on rainy days?   All three of us like to curl up on the couch for a good snooze, but then, come to think if it, we actually pretty much do that every day, regardless of the weather.

Meanwhile, get out the rain gear!

 

We Scotties are always curious what’s going on in our kitchen.  Any food prep  (smells, noises, whatever) has us showing up to check out the action in the kitchen, because you never know when some tasty morsel could fall on the floor by mistake and we could score a snack.

At the sound of anything intriguing going on, there we are with our little eagle eyes and nosy noses, so I suppose you could say we have doggie FOMO—fear of missing out on a treat!

 

It’s Labor Day, the last day of the holiday weekend, so let’s enjoy the day and do something fun!

Here it is already, Labor Day weekend, the last big weekend of the summer.  Where did the summertime go?

As per usual, I am at my job playing the piano at the Tiki Bar, hoping to make some big tips from the weekend partiers.

Everybody enjoy the last big weekend of the summer!  Even though it will remain hot for weeks and weeks, the fall pumpkin spice everything will take over next week.

2013 was a bittersweet year.  It was the year that I was born and when I flew all by myself from Dayton, Ohio, to my new home in Colorado where I met my brother, Kirby and my sister, Sunny just a few months after they had lost their rescue Scottie sister, Frosty Froofers to brain tumors.

Sadly, we lost Kirby to bladder cancer only a few short months after I arrived, which was devastating for us.  Shortly after though, Wen, her friend, Sunny, and I traveled to Great Bend, Kansas, to pick up Molly, who would be Sunny’s and my new sister.

Molly was only three weeks younger than me, so we would bond and become besties as we grew up under Sunny’s watchful eyes.  She was seven years older than Molly and me, so Sunny was kind of like our new Scottie mom.

2013 was definitely an eventful year for our Scottie family with all the changes, but as I said, although Molly and I had found our forever home, there were heartbreaking losses, so it was bittersweet.

 

 

 

We Scotties seem to have very expressive eyes.  Just like people, you can get a clue to our emotions by looking at our eyes and we are experts at rolling our eyes, giving you the side eye, looking sweet, sorry, angry or portraying any number of emotions.

For example, here are some photos of my sister, Sadie.  Her eyes are very expressive and they totally give a good hint of what’s going on with her.

Those Scottie eyes….gotta love them!

 

Sadie:  Hey, Molly!  Whatcha doin’ over there?  Are you going to play us a tune?

Molly:  Only if you’ll sing!

Yay!!!  We received Molly’s biopsy report today and it was good news!  The mass that Dr. Nina removed from Molly’s side was a lipoma (fatty tumor), so nothing to worry about.

It had looked and felt like a lipoma, but you can’t be too careful, so to make sure, it was sent in to the lab to be analyzed.  Now, all Molly has to do is continue to leave her incision alone while she heals and after the sutures are removed, she will be fine!

My sister, Molly’s mass removal surgery went well and she was back home recovering in several hours.  She’s eating, taking her meds, and pretty much acting like her regular self.

The incision on Molly’s side doesn’t seem to bother her, but Wen puts a cone on her head to keep Molly honest during the night and whenever Wen leaves the house and we Scotties are home alone.

In time, as Molly’s incision heals, it will become itchy, so that “cone of shame” will probably become a necessary accessory 24/7, but for now, when Wen can keep an eye on Molly, she doesn’t have to wear the cone, so she doesn’t feel at all restricted or pay attention to her incision.

Sadie and I were happy to have Molly back home after her day at the vet and hopefully her healing process will be smooth sailing for the next two weeks until her sutures come out.  We are also waiting on the histopath report from the lab to make sure that the mass isn’t anything concerning, so everybody cross your fingers for good news.

Meanwhile, so far, Molly’s recovery is going well and I even spent some quality time hanging out with her today because we’re besties.

 

 

My sister, Molly just got home from having surgery today and Sadie and I were very glad to see her!  Molly had a fast-growing lipoma on her side by her left rear leg and Wen was concerned that it had only recently popped up and was noticeably growing, so she took Molly in for a biopsy several weeks ago.  The mass looked benign, but since it was getting larger, Wen decided to schedule Molly for surgery and today was the day.

The surgery went well and Molly is recovering, but to be safe, they sent the mass in for histopath to make sure that it wasn’t anything serious, so now we wait for those results.

Meanwhile, Molly is resting in her big cage with a cone on her head so that she can’t lick or chew on her sutures and we are all very happy to have her home again!