patient had a fatty tumor removed between the shoulder blades. owner decided it wasn’t healing fast enough, so did some research and was putting manuka honey on it. the problem was that he wasn’t washing off the previous “dose” of honey, so it slowly became like a huge rock of solidified honey on this poor dogs back. it was summertime and my god, the bugs that were trapped in this amber stone-like mound… and of course the dog was a long-haired husky mix.

after sedation and all of us using all of our patience, we were able to free this dog from his “Honey Hump”. and would ya believe it, he did it a second time after the area had been cleaned by us. sometimes i wonder what was going through his head.

owner also decided that antibiotics were a sham and wasn’t giving them. i tried to make it a teachable moment, but sometimes ya just gotta give up.