Bath Time For Buster

We don't bathe Buster very often.  About twice a year or whenever he gets a little malodorous.  Well it was time today.  He wasn't very pleasant to be around.  He stunk.  He has taken to licking his paws and they get really stinky from that.  Not to mention with the long hair and no tail he can get dingle berries.  We keep his backside trimmed pretty well due to the dingle berries.  This time he had both, stinky paws and dingle berries.

Generally there is very little odor at all from him.  Which is good for him since he likes to be inside with us.  This time if he got within 5 foot of you, you certainly got a whiff of jiff.  So with the very cold front coming sometime Tuesday, he would be cooped up in the house and that would not be good.  So much to his displeasure, bath time was Monday.

 

From what I have read, Aussies usually love water.  Oh no, not this guy. 

 

We have to fool him, keep him distracted while we get the bath stuff together or he stays just out of reach.  We did the dance with him trying to avoid the big ole mean hose and got him cleaned up pretty quick.  It takes both of us.  Trimmed out some matted fur.  Towel dried ( he loves that ) as best we could after letting him do the doggie shake.  There is a lingering odor.  But it was skunk smell.  He got sprayed a while back and every time he gets wet there is an 'eau de skunk.'  They told us this would happen when he got sprayed.

It was around 78* but pretty breezy so we spent extra time drying him so he wouldn't be outside when it started getting really cool.  For some reason his fur has gotten really frizzy of late so he even gets some of Mom's conditioner.  Now he is good to go for the winter hopefully.  We just need to figure out why the paw licking has begun again and get that stopped. 

 

WARNING 

 

This will be a little graphic so be warned.

For those that have been following my prostate cancer progress, had a bit of an issue last night.  I woke up around 4:00 am with a serious pain, in my prostate of all places.  I also needed to use the rest room, (pee) and had some difficulty.  The pain continued for about an hour then subsided to nothing.  Not sure what was going on.  I think my body had been holding off needing to pee and the prostate and muscle involved were contracted for a considerable time while I slept.  The pain was centered mostly on the right side where they found the cancer.  They tell me there are no symptoms with prostate cancer.  I wonder though, if things just don't work like they should when under stress and the cancer is the cause of the malfunction/pain.  I'm chalking it up to the contracted muscle/prostate.  I will ask the Urologist about this. 

 

Just need to get this thing outta me.  Still a ways off.  I figure time will speed up around the week of the 17th when I go in for pre-surgery blood work and have to get various surgery related prescriptions filled.  Then it will seem more real.  Kim and I were talking about this the other night, things are good with us, we feel fine and are in good spirits, but it seems life has been put on hold, waiting for this surgery to get done and the lengthy aftermath and dealing with the issues of having no prostate.  If you don't know what that is, go look it up, I don't want to mention that now.

 

It could always be worse and we are so blessed.

 

Happy Trails.