My dog kept sitting down like in the middle of walking from here to there. Just all of a sudden he'd sit down. Then he didn't move for a day, so I took him to the vet. I assumed he was having anal gland problems. So did the vet, until she took a look at his butt and said "This isn't what I was expecting." Then she squated down, got like 10 inches from his butt, squinted her eyes up and said "Have you seen this?"

Well, hell no I havn't seen that. I don't stick my face in my dog's ass.

To make a long story short, he had abig patch of dead flesh on his ass. It could have been a spider bite, a burn, or a chemical burn, or something else that killed the flesh. They had to operate and remove the dead flesh ($400+). That left a big open wound on his butt. Raw flesh. We went to visit him during his hospital stay and he was wearing the big white ice cream cone thing. He looked pretty pathetic.

So for the last two weeks Crystal has been putting hot compresses and creame on my dog's ass. One of us has to hold him, and one has to put the hot compress on his butt. For some reason, she always gets the business end of the dog. We're supposed to do it twice a day, but that is really not happening.

The other night, I wanted to check out the sore, to see if it was healing very well. I picked up his back legs - like when you picked up your friends legs and they walked on their hands doing the "wheelbarrow". I picked up his back legs, got my face down close to look. The sore had healed pretty well and the skin was starting to close up the wound. With my face about 8" from my dog's ass I said to Crystal "Wow, have you seen this, it looks good?"