Here is a picture of Cooper’s infected paws and the lump that got DBs and I worried.

I found out about the lump when I gave him a bath 2 weeks ago.  My first thought was the lump was those fatty lumps that are emerging from Ranger’s body.   They are harmless.  But a couple of days later, I touched it, it was very soft and Cooper did not like me touching it.  My imagination went wild then, thinking that it’s a tumor and it’s cancerous.  I asked DBs to look at it, he too thinks it’s not those fatty lumps.  Those fatty lumps on Ranger are a lot more solid.  So, of course I panic a little but not showing it too much.  Tod DBs to make an appointment with the vet to check it out and also find out why his paws are not healing after so many months.

To the vet Cooper went.  The vet drew blood from the lumpt and did other kind of tests on Cooper.   The tests all came back negative, all is good.  Phew, that was a relief.  The vet then checked his paws and told DBs they were actually infected.  The wounds started off from allergies and Coops licking them, and because of boredom, he licks them even more.  Yeah, I know, some days I do not give them a lot of attention, the boys are on their own laying on the carpet by me (majority of the time) when I’m home or by DBs when I’m at work.  So, Coops had a few shots of super duper strength antibiotics and gave us some oitment and oral antibiotics for us to take home.

I am hoping the medication is going to help heal the infected paws soon.  Both DBs and I have caught him licking the bad paws.  We put the collar that looks like a float on him, but the collar seems to “choke” him when he sleeps.  So we take it off most of the time.  “Sum toong” to see him breathing so hard when he’s trying to sleep.  Plus with that collar on, he can’t get to his water and food bowls.  The vet says it will take about a week plus for the antibiotics to do the job.  We shall see.