I'll have my Lap Dog Super Sized, Please . . .

This in Ginger.  She thinks she's a lap dog.  She thinks she weighs only about 10 lbs, while she tries to crawl into your lap.

Truth is she weighs 110 lbs.   She's about 3, maybe 4 years old, a Mastiff Mix, can't remember the mix part without going to look at her chart.

She boarding till tomorrow.  She is here getting heartworm treatment.  Which is a little unusual as her owner had her on heartworm prevention since she was a wee 40 lbs.   She stays outside all the time, year round.  Which means she is exposed to mosquitoes more frequently than a dog that stays in the house.  Heartworms must travel through a mosquito,  the mosquito is a biological vector, so we can only guess that a few heartworm larvae got passed the development point in their life cycle where the prevention kills them.

She should be fine.  And we are switching her back to an oral heartworm medication, along with something topical for the fleas, ticks, flies, and mosquitoes. 

I think she is enjoying 2 days of lounging in the air conditioned kennel.