Brother-In-Law and Niece

This is a shout out to my Brother-in-Law, Garrie and his daughter Amanda for coming to Freckles rescue last night. Garrie reads this every once in a while sooooo....Shout out BrotherInLaw. (yes we call him brotherinlaw he's the only one)

(Freckles is our basset hound that we "inherited" from the girl that babysat the girls for years. We got him when she went off to college.)

He's a sweet old fat...let me stress...fat..."old man". Anywho...we came home one afternoon last week and he smelled horrific. Seriously made the girls vomit. He wouldn't let me touch his back, I could see that something was wrong, his fur was all matted down and he smelled like old grease mixed with burning flesh. I've been cleaning him every afternoon with peroxide, which he does not like and it just wasn't getting better. I was able to get the burnt fur off to where I could clean the wound.

Last night Garrie and Amanda came out to the house with the good stuff, they are pretty good with doctoring on animals. They cleaned it up better than I could and packed it with burn cream. He was back to his old self in minutes. He even wanted in the house. HA! He came up to me lookin all "now woman, that's how you clean a dawg!" (he hasn't been talking to me...im thinking cause he doesn't like my bottle of peroxide)

He was up moving around this morning when we left like always...Taylor said, "Yup, he's getting better, he's up to tell us good bye for the day!"

Freckles is hopefully on the road to recovery.

How'd he get burned? Only Freckles knows I guess. I thought maybe he had gotten under a hot tail pipe on a vehicle, but this is too severe, really looks like grease was poured on him. I thought maybe he had gotten into Dianne's burn hole at her house while they were burning trash, but...Being smart and all...I figured out quickly that he would be burned on his paws and belly if thats what he had done...and its just on his back, so it's a mystery.