JournAELO 020825

Yesterday, my golden –retriever– boy Mantequilla woke up with a little hump behind his nose. After much deliberation, investigation and back and forth calls with multiple vets, I now recognize these and call them by the, well deserved, term of "fucking mosquito bites". If you're a dog person and it's affected often by mosquitoes, you know how hard dealing with them is. If you have a solution, let me know, 'cause if seems that everything that really kills mosquitoes may actually try to kill your dog, too. Anyways, small humps is the new normal in regards to my dog's nose during summer. What was remarkable was that he was constantly licking his... rear end? I mean, he does it every now and then, but this caught my attention because it was... aggressively constant. Well, I decided enough is enough and took him to the Vet. Of course, that would mean taking a hit on my wallet, but I was ready to make my money's worth with a bunch of questions.

Long story short, Mantequilla is a healthy guy with a little too much poop in his tummy. They checked his heart (great), his skin (great), his hair (could be better, but he cannonballed into a nasty pond a few days ago) and nose (bumpy, but great). The only thing that caught the eye –pun foreshadow– of my Vet tech is that Mantequilla's eyes appeared to be too small for a golden retriever. You know, just a little too much skin in his lower eyelid. "I thought he got his scrunchy eyes from me", I said, to a well receiving and now laughing couple of Vet techs. After a little bit of testing, turns out my little fellow needs eyes drops because his eyes get dry. More surprising was how different his gaze was after the drops. It was like his eye found some roundness he was missing and now they were bigger, shinier and overall more anime-like than ever. If he already got away with a lot with his scrunchy little eyes, he'll know get away with murder.

I don't know about you, but I never would have guessed that dogs may need eye drops. 3 times per day. 3. TIMES. PER. DAY. As if I already didn't spend a fuckton of time with him. Or him with me. Whatever. Now I've to teach him to stay still because it's a real struggle right now and also not to rub his face against anything after I drop them on him.

God, I fucking love this dog.