lakota – Aug 20, 2007 12:00 AM

Lakota's growth has started to really increase in size and after consultation with the vet, we have set a surgery date for September 10th. As you can see from Lakota's video, she is active and doesn't appear to have any physical effects from this benign growth, but we want to remove it and allow enough time for the hair to grow back before winter. We are giving it two more weeks to hopefully see a decline in growth before the surgery. Staff continue to clean the growth daily and apply antibiotics. She has completed the shedding of her winter hair and should have no problems with ambient temperature issues during the immobilization.