Daily Diaries

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I won't be walking for a while but I wanted to tell you about someone who Hoshi is very afraid of. The Big Boy! There's a restaurant near my house called Big Boy. Every time we walk by Hoshi goes bonkers and warns me about the dangerous big boy by barking his head off. Even after we pass by Hoshi keeps looking back to make sure he's not following us.

I have to write this down before I forget...we went to pick up some chicken and had Hoshi in the car. He was sitting on my mom's lap and I was driving. Just as I roll down my window to pay, Hoshi decides to leap into the drive thru window. I caught him in before he jumped. I was surprised he actually thought he could do that. Everyone thought it was funny including the gal at the window (thankfully).

Hoshi has needed a bath desperately. That long hair of his is like a magnet for every twig and branch in the neighborhood and the salt from the sidewalks was making his hair all tacky. I used Epi-Soothe shampoo and cream rinse for his bath tonight. He has been scratching more than usual and we think the cats had fleas. I've already Frontlined them and my mom's dog. I'll Frontline Hoshi tonight. I'm hoping his scratching will stop.

There's a small mutt who lives on the other side of our block. He chased Hoshi last night and scared him. It's some type of Jack Russell mix about 35 pounds. I've seen the mutt before. He has a habit of jumping over his chain link fence and wandering the neighborhood. He came after Gabby before but seemed intimidated by Gabby. Gabby was much more muscular than Hoshi. Anyways, we were walking past this mutt's house when he jumped the fence and went after Hoshi. I wasn't sure what would happen ...

I mentioned in my last blog I found a reddened bump on the inside of Hoshi's ear. I took Hoshi to the vet today and she thinks it's a histiocytoma. She checked the cells under a microscope with a slide smear and needle aspriation and said she found round cells which suggests a histiocytoma. It doesn't seem to bother Hoshi unless I'm trying to clean it. I put peroxide on it this morning and he acted like it hurt. She said they can resolve on their own. If not, they would remove it. Hoshi went ...