Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat

Lucian is just like the child that if he can find trouble he will!!  With as much as I've been taking him to vet lately if he were a child the doctor may start wondering if I'm a fit mom...lol!

So the other weekend I'm outside with Lucian going around the flower beds shoveling up fungus that's growing in the mulch.  Since we've gotten so much rain I have mushrooms and other things growing in my mulch...

So Lucian is with me and I'm getting fungus up from around one of the down spouts.  We hear rattling so I'm thinking there's a mouse or some other critter in the down spouts.  Lucian of course starts digging.  That's when hell broke loose with baby yellow jackets.  Lucian takes off running and wiping his face in the ground.  I'm standing there dumbfounded as to what these things are because they don't look like bees to me.  Then I get stung and I'm cursing a blue streak across the yard (I only got hit once) and trying to get this thing off my arm.  That sucker burned like crazy for days so I can only imagine how poor Lucian felt since they swarmed around him. 

I tell hubby about what happened and that I had no idea what sort of bee these things were.  I told him they looked silver in color to me.  So we go around the side of the house and of course they're no where to be seen but poor Lucian is licking and biting at his leg.  I get him and I both inside to get some Benadryl.  Hubby stayed out there trying to figure out what's going on and he came back later and said they were baby yellow jackets and those suckers are fast and nasty.  There was a nest built in the ground by one of my ornamental grass clumps which explains why a side of it is dying off...

So hubby went out at night with a flashlight and a spray can of parts cleaner and doused the nest... Take that you nasty bees!!

Now Lucian has had this lump on his right thigh for about a week.  It wasn't getting better and I thought it was getting bigger.  Hubby as usual thinks I'm being paranoid because I want to take Lucian to the vet.  Last summer Lucian bit at a bee and still had part of the stinger in his lip that Dr. Wilt had to cut out.  So I'm thinking he must have a stinger(s) stuck in him from the bee attack.  I made the apt for the following Saturday (which would be today).  I told hubby if the lump didn't go away by then Lucian is going to the vet.  Well, last weekend he started licking and biting at it and it was oozing.  I told hubby that's it I'm calling Monday to get him seen because I'm not letting him sit with a possible infection in his leg.  Dr. Wilt was able to see him Tuesday and he aspirated the lump and made sure it wasn't cancerous...which it isn't thank goodness.  He gave Lucian a Kenalog injection into the wound and poor Lucian was flinching... Dr. Wilt said if it hasn't gone down in about 7 days then he'll have to go in and cut it out because there's probably a stinger in there.

So both hubby and I agree that it has gone down.  It just looks kind of nasty right now because it's scabbing over.  Here's what his leg looks like...

After we got his rash all cleared up now we have this. 

And I was able to get a couple of cute selfies with Lucian.  Since I'm the only one who knows how to operate the cameras I'm always taking the pics.  I was so happy to get these couple pics of me with my boy! 

"Yeah...I know I'm handsome!"

"CHEESE!!"

"Seriously Mom...you're taking ANOTHER picture?!?!"

Sahana and her Angel Leland and Lucian too