Lacy (our dog) recently had some major surgery, man! Jonathan (my brother) found the lump first. We felt something hard, right underneath Lacy’s neck on the left side. What’s weird is that we just had a lump removed from the exact same place 3 years ago! Back then, our vet said it was a lipoma; but  fortunately, it was not cancerous. What a relief! Lacy didn’t look like she was in any particular pain, but we had her checked out anyway because we didn’t know if it would get worse. Sure enough our vet said it was another lipoma! We took her in early in the morning and she was ready to be picked up that same afternoon.This time we were surprised that she didn’t have a bandage around her neck when we picked her up. The vet said the stitches would dissolve naturally. He gave us some medication which we wrapped in cheese cubes and gave her for ten days. She loved it! Everything was going great until she started picking at the wound. When I was walking to the kitchen, I saw some blood, so I followed it and sure enough her wound was bleeding! Jeff tried wrapping her wound with some gauze, but she somehow pulled it off, and guess what happened? She picked at it and made it bled again. However, mom, and I got smart and we went to Petco to get a plastic collar, to shield the area. Lacy was MAD! But thankfully it worked! However, one day when I came home and opened the door, I noticed Lacy wasn’t wearing it! So, I looked around the house and found the plastic collar sitting on the couch in our living room. Thankfully, she didn’t mess with her injury that much, but I could tell she was still licking it. So, I put it back on. Boy, she hated that! However, the next night…she took it off AGAIN! So Jeff  tightened it a notch and it worked just fine. Now, she is feeling and looking much better (finally)!