My poor brudder doesn’t feel good today. I’ve been keeping him company on the blanket. Bubba has another yeast infection. This is the first major one he’s had since he started using Promeris, but Mom says this one is giving her more ideas about his skin infections.

A few days ago we were playing around as we always do, and I accidentally scratched his shoulder blade. I don’t try to scratch him when we swat play, but my claw got snagged on the blanket, and I freaked out for a minute. Bubba just happened to be there, and his shoulder became the victim of my next swat. Mom has just trimmed my nails, and one of them must have had a little jagged piece hanging off the end or something.

Mom put this cream stuff on Bubba’s shoulder, and he was fine. Last night he started oozing this yucky stuff though. Dad called Mom in to look at it, and she sighed and said “looks like we’ll see the vet this week.” Mom cleaned it up and put more of the cream stuff on it, then she gave Bubba some yogurt and a Benedryl.

This morning when we woke up his shoulder looked awful! He has a bald spot the size of a quarter, and it’s filled with all this yellow pus stuff. Mom cleaned it up again and called the vet guy to make an appointment. She gave Bubba more Benedryl, cleaned the spot up, and put some Zymox on it. She says that’s all she can do until Saturday when the vet can see Bubba to give him anti-fungal medacaysuns.

Now Mom thinks there is something that blooms or is in the air when it gets warm Springtime weather again that might lower Bubba’s immune system. Last year he got a really bad yeast infection on his head at this exact same time of the year. He had been stuck inside all winter with me, but when it warmed up he started spending more time outside with Mom. The first day Mom took him outside for almost all day he got an infection like this. Mom says it’s just one more thing to look into so we can hopefully make Bubba a happy and always healthy doggy one day.

I hope my brudder will be ok. I know he will because our vet guy is good, and Mommy takes really good care of our boo boos. I just don’t like seeing my brudder when he’s sick. He lays on his blankets and doesn’t want to play with me at all, so I think I should lay down with him again. Maybe it’ll make him feel better.

I know he’s mad because Mom won’t let him lay on the couch, and it probably doesn’t help him to feel good. He has to lay in the floor on a blanket, so if the oozy stuff gets on it Mom can give him a clea blanket. Maybe Mom should go to one of those discount furniture stores and get Bubba another chair since she threw his broken one away. That might make him feel better!