Fleabag Vs Mutt 2

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Manases Blakemore

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:51:44 PM8/3/24

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Once she air-dries and has undergone a thorough brushing, Roo is restored from her preferred condition of being the the filthiest mutt in the country to looking again like one of the lustrous show dogs in the travel brochures for tuberculosis sanitariums high in the Swiss Alps that ocean line companies used to send prospective consumptives.

I looked at her and thought, What the hell is this? There were brown spots on the top of her head, on the thick fur covering the part of the skull that makes a sound like two coconut halves clopping together when a puppy skids out of control into a wall, as they all do once or twice as part of their general education. After that, that thickness is, for most dogs, extraneous.

But that they were there at all was alarming. Usually, when fleas get to a dog, you see one or two. That was when I remembered that the day before I had noticed one on Roo, but as it had been a loner, and as the Bravecto had never stopped working before a full three months had elapsed, I had forgotten about it.