Hudson : Oral Surgeon MD

Hudson did not have his surgery on Monday the 4th.  Why, you ask?  Because he chose to remove his tumors himself.

When we first adopted Hudson, he was reactive to thunderstorms.  He ate through the wood panel in his big ol' dog house.  After that, we started leaving him inside and the problem seemed to solve itself.  Until Saturday the 2nd....

Tony and I had gone to the Parisian Market at Aspen Grove with my mom.  Out of nowhere, a storm blew in.  We headed home, but not soon enough.  Apparently, when the thunder began (which we didn't even hear at Aspen Grove) Hudson panicked and decided that he needed into the master bedroom.  We had shut the door when we left, so he decided to eat his way through.

This picture was taken after the pieces of door were picked up and the blood scrubbed from the carpet.

When we got home, there were blood droplets all over the wood floor at the base of the stairs.  We assumed someone had sliced open a paw or something and checked everyone's feet for damage.  Nothing.  I began cleaning up the mess.  The blood trail continued up the carpeted stairs, so I followed it to evaluate the damage done to the carpet.  When I reached the top and turned the corner, the destroyed door greeted me.  Figuring that it was Hudson, based on his reaction four years ago, I checked his mouth.  His tumors were gone and blood was flowing sluggishly from the wound.  I called the ER vet to explain what had happened and they suggested I bring Hudson in, but our favorite vet tech, Megan, wouldn't be back for 20 minutes.  Since it wasn't a true emergency, I decided to get a headstart on cleaning up the mess before we left.  I grabbed a trash bag and began picking up all the splinters of wood.  On the fourth handful, I felt something squishy.  It was the largest of the tumors.  I then sorted through the debris to find the other.  I bagged them up and left Tony to finish removing the devastation.

Upon arriving at Animal Hospital Specialty Center, Megan came and met us at the door and walked us back.  I gave her the bag of tumors and she took Hudson back to have him assessed by the doctors on duty.  They all felt that surgery was no longer necessary, as Hudson had removed the growths down to the gumline.  He was already on amoxicillin and the bleeding had stopped.  They rinsed his wounds out to make sure there were no splinters embedded and sent us home.  (Free of charge.  They are wonderful people over there.)