09/03/2026
💜💙💜Squeak Update💜💙💜
So if you scroll pics before reading, you see that her report card below isn’t all “Excellent” as we had planned and hoped for, but she’s doing good and we’re now mostly there! 🐾
First and foremost, today’s surgery went well overall, and Squeak did great! But in proven and typical Squeak fashion, she’s full of surprises, or at least had one more up her sleeve! 💅
So let’s recap for a second… if you remember from Squeak’s initial intake, she had some medical issues already addressed while under anesthesia back in July, for her spay. At that time, they lanced and drained an abscess on her rear leg, and went in to remove a “mass/tumor” in her mouth. SURPRISE 1️⃣-Low and behold it was not a mass/tumor, but what was found under that lump, was actually pieces of what’s thought to likely have been be a decaying/rotten tennis ball, that had been stuck in the rear of her mouth and embedded in her gums! This “invasive foreign object” caused her gums to react and then actual grow over top of it. So in that surgery #1, they ran out of time for her to remain safely under anesthesia, to be as thorough as they would have liked. So, it was known to all, that she would need further dental in the near future, when safe to go back under!
It was determined that per Vet’s recommendation and what would be safest for Squeak, her needed eye entropion and teeth cleaning and extractions would wait till October, being 3 months in between anesthesia events.
Fast forward till mid August, changes were noticed in Squeak’s eating habits and breath, so a follow up was rescheduled, knowing dental was an existing issue. So then after recheck evaluation, it was determined Squeak should not wait until October, so surgery was scheduled for today.
Today, all started on track and as planned. Vet tech called this afternoon to check in and provide an update. All was well, everything was done and we’d see you between 4-5:45 for pick up.
So vet tech wasn’t wrong by any means, so please don’t throw any shade, please! All the boxes were checked on the list (✅teeth/jaw X-Rays, ✅Dental cleaning, ✅tooth extraction and ✅eye entropion correction, ✅3 Medications, ✅Eye drops and ✅Surgery cone), but that was high level…not down to and digging in the nitty gritty details.
So we made an update earlier today, based on high level details/check boxes/expectations. Our apologies for doing so, since the finer details do matter and we didn’t think about anything different.
Now Squeak pick up time arrives🎉, we meet foster dad in the parking lot and go in! I pay the bill in full (Thanks to you all…our “Team Squeak”) and foster dad gets the bag of meds and in to an exam room we go to wait for the Vet and to see our beautiful girl Squeak!
Now here comes Squeak’s unexpected SURPRISE 2️⃣! So once she went under anesthesia and they started her dental work first. Well while in there, they found another pocket of hidden and impacted “gunk” to be addressed. He said it was a wad of hair, fur and just gunk that was down in there. So they handled that unexpected surprise and extracted the two teeth that were rotten and decayed back in there, likely secondary from that damn haunting tennis ball! 🎾 So in the meantime, Squeak’s time is ticking away, yet again with unexpected findings, for her to remain and be safely under anesthesia…
So he was able to press on and proceed with her eye entropion surgery, but only on one of her two eyes. He focused on the right eye correction (the worst of the two eyes), but then he had to make a judgement call on timing and whether to press on with eye #2, or have another future anesthesia event. So his judgement call, and one that we 💯 understand, support and agree with, was to stop and not press on and jeopardize her safety by prolonging her under anesthesia time any longer. So we’ll follow up in one month for a new evaluation of her second eye.
In the meantime, everything else has been handled now and she’s expected to make a full recovery with what’s been done so far!
Squeak was happy to see us and was ready to leave, but bless her…you could tell she was still feeling the drugs for sure! And that huge cone…she’s going to give her foster family a fun time for sure these next 10 days that she’s sporting it! 🤦♀️
We didn’t take any pics today, as she looks like she could currently be the lead and star of a new Rocky movie, but we’ll share some in the next few days, when she’s feeling a little more put together.
Thank you for reading our update (cough…cough…Book), but we wanted to share a full update!
