In Other News...
Pig has love handles. And a harmless cyst on her ear.
Took her to the vet last Friday to check out the possible wart/mole/cyst/tick that Thode had spotted a few months earlier. Turned out not to be a tick, but a cyst. Vet said that if I want to have it removed, I have to have it done now, before it grows any bigger b/c ears are not a good place to have surgeries since the skin can't stretch together to stitch up. But, he said the best thing was to just leave it alone - especially since it's harmless and doesn't bother her. So, we'll leave it alone. It's a beauty mark - like Cindy Crawford's mole.
Then he pointed to some "muscle" around her waist and said, "See those? Those are love handles." Apparently Pig is overweight, maybe by about 4-5 lbs or so. He says she doesn't necessarily need to go on a diet, but she should watch what she eats.
I don't know what he's talking about. I mean, come on, she only eats 2 1/2 cups of food a day. Plus maybe 2-3 cookies. And sometimes a Greenie. Or a rawhide chewie. Oh yes, then there's the corner of my toast every morning with a bite of fried egg, a few pieces of lettuce from my salad at lunch (it's only lettuce!), a treat she gets from my coworkers when she comes to the office, a bite of whatever Trader Joe's frozen entree I've heated for dinner, and small helping of ice cream for dessert. That's not a lot of food...
I think she, like many women, is putting on the weight at "work." Afterall, she does provide a daily cleaning service for the streets of West Hollywood by eating gum and other bits of food laying around.
Took her to the vet last Friday to check out the possible wart/mole/cyst/tick that Thode had spotted a few months earlier. Turned out not to be a tick, but a cyst. Vet said that if I want to have it removed, I have to have it done now, before it grows any bigger b/c ears are not a good place to have surgeries since the skin can't stretch together to stitch up. But, he said the best thing was to just leave it alone - especially since it's harmless and doesn't bother her. So, we'll leave it alone. It's a beauty mark - like Cindy Crawford's mole.
Then he pointed to some "muscle" around her waist and said, "See those? Those are love handles." Apparently Pig is overweight, maybe by about 4-5 lbs or so. He says she doesn't necessarily need to go on a diet, but she should watch what she eats.
I don't know what he's talking about. I mean, come on, she only eats 2 1/2 cups of food a day. Plus maybe 2-3 cookies. And sometimes a Greenie. Or a rawhide chewie. Oh yes, then there's the corner of my toast every morning with a bite of fried egg, a few pieces of lettuce from my salad at lunch (it's only lettuce!), a treat she gets from my coworkers when she comes to the office, a bite of whatever Trader Joe's frozen entree I've heated for dinner, and small helping of ice cream for dessert. That's not a lot of food...
I think she, like many women, is putting on the weight at "work." Afterall, she does provide a daily cleaning service for the streets of West Hollywood by eating gum and other bits of food laying around.
posted by S at 3:27 PM
2 Comments:
Haha, that's funny, because Chloe, Bandit, Cocoa, AND their mom (me) all need to go on diets. It's funny, because Chloe only gets 1/3 cup of food a day, sprinkled with oatmeal, all she can eat hay, water, and then a small little 'sprinkling' of food in her dish at night because I feel badly that her dish is totally empty and she looks so sad and hungry.....
And Bandit and Cocoa only get 1/2 c of food a day to share, plus hay, plus oatmeal, plus the additional food I give them at night when I "sprinkle" Chloe's dish with more pellets, because I know they can see me give her something and I don't want them to think I am playing favorites, even if their dish isn't empty.....
It's funny how we treat them like people...
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