Carson Update!

Okay, so a lot of you have been asking about Carson and how he's doing here in California since I haven't talked about him much in my posts. Well...he's doing okay. He's liking it, I guess lol. He's getting used to all the sounds outside of the apartment, so he's not barking too too much. He's gone to daycare a couple times and he loves going on walks around the neighborhood. We tried to go to a dog park when we first moved here, but no one was really there and I haven't attempted to go back. We haven't found a playmate yet either, but that's okay. He has definitely become a Momma's boy. Sadly, I'm pretty much all he sees most of the time.

As far as an update with Carson, he had to have a wart removed from his left shoulder about a month ago. Before I went to Miami it was there; the vet gave me a steroid spray to use twice a day and said it should most likely eventually go away. Well of course it didn't; it only got bigger and more dried out. It looked disgusting! Like an artichoke! It gave me the creeps and made me itch. Ewww...just thinking about it is making me itch. Anyway, we went to the groomer and she was like, "Oh your gonna have to get that removed!" And I was like, "Really? Because the vet told me it should fall off." And she was like, "No, I doubt that." So I was telling her about how expensive my vet would be to remove it, and she then recommended hers to try. So I immediately called and set up a consultation appointment for that evening. At the appt, the Veterinarian said he could remove it right then with just a little anesthesia. So...I left (went to the mall around the corner), and within an hour he was done and the wart was gone! Stitches intact and Carson just like his normal crazy self. They put him on an antibiotic and pain medicine for about 10 days. Leaving the vet, we had to stop at Walmart to get him a shirt to wear so that he wouldn't lick at the spot; options were limited though lol...so don't judge.

At the vet...so cute! <3

They had to shave him

The silly shirt (really a onesie) he has to wear lol

We followed up 2 weeks after the procedure to get the stitches removed and...come to find out they didn't really work like they wanted. It had just like scabbed up around the stitches (hard to explain). So they removed the stitches and scab and put about 4 staples in instead. So that's what he has in now, and this was about two days ago. So we follow up in 10 days to get them taken out. Hopefully they work!

He's ready for Christmas lol

Stud

Other than this annoying wart removal process for Carson, he's doing fine. Never seems to be in any pain. It just sucks because he can't go to daycare for the time being. And of course I just bought like a 10 day daycare pass for a couple hundred dollars, which I'm hoping they'll let me use in the future when and if I come back to the Bay Area after my next assignment :)

Well I think that's it. Hope this filled you all in a little on my "Little Man".

Xoxo,

  Shante' & Carson