Hello, I’m Menna

Hi everyone, Menna here.

For a first blog this is a bit of a letdown, because I fell poorly this week! To be exact, a nasty abscess appeared on my neck, right under my chin, and here’s how it all unfolded……

My week began with the usual bath and blow dry, and my foster mum told me I looked beautiful — though she says that roughly 50 times a day to me and my sister Ella, so who really knows! The following day, mum kept giving me odd looks and said she was certain there was a small swelling on my neck. She wanted a closer look, but I wasn’t having any of it; I can move fast when I need to, and off I went. Mum said she thought the vet should check it and tried to book an appointment, then hung up grumbling that Friday was too far away — but I wasn’t fussed, who wants to go there!

By the next day things had shifted a bit — I’d scratched my neck and was feeling pretty rough. Mum fashioned a neck sock to stop me scratching and gently washed my neck with some pink stuff, but she said it was growing before her eyes and she was ringing the vet again, before I needed an ambulance! (She can be so dramatic.) This time she got the nice lady who knows me, who said to bring me in — great, mum was pleased. Easy for her, she gets to sit in the car, listen to embarrassing music, eat sweets and wait! She says she actually sits in the car and worries….but it’s ME who has to go in there!!

Sure enough, I had a high temperature and an abscess, so it was 2 injections, pills to take home, a cone to stop me scratching it worse, instructions to wear socks AND they want me back next week. They reckon they’ll shave the area, give it a good clean and check it has fully cleared up — apparently abscesses can be stubborn sometimes. Well, let me tell you, if it still hurts as much next week I’ll be showing them what stubborn really

looks like😜Mum has to keep bathing my neck in the pink stuff, but I’m not keen on that, so I give her the runaround to keep her on her toes. On the plus side, I haven’t lost my appetite, and mum says that’s a miracle she’s eternally grateful for.

Until next time, enjoy my many recovery poses — oh, and the socks.. xxx