The Importance of Cuddles. By Porter.

It's time to get serious guys.  You need to give your dogs lots of cuddles.  Nice massages around our faces and ears.  Tummy rubs (if your fuzz butts like that sorta thing, not all of us do...and some of us it's more sides of the tummy rubs cause we have boy parts in the middle), bum scritches, all very important.  

When you massages our ears it helps give us nice relaxy feelings.  Momma even did it with Fleece every night because it maybe helped her not get sick like she did.  She does it with all of us now and it puts us right to sleep.  It just feels so good and makes us mushy. 

Zazzles and HeLa give each other cuddles.  Not sure if they tell momma their findings though.

When you feels all around our heads and necks you feels our limf (editors note:  lymph) nodes if they're bumpy.  That means we might be sick.  Momma says her limf nodes are puffy right now cause her tonsil is angry and swollen.  I'm not sure why limf nodes are such reactive sorts but they are. 

When you gives us tummy rubs it helps you find out if our tummies are sore, or if we have skin itchies, or if we have weird lumps, 'specially 'round our nipples. 

HeLa loves tummy and chest rubs.

When you gives us massages and bum scritches, you find any lumps and bumps that might be new.  Usually these are no biggie, just fatty lumps...even if you're not...um...puffy...like me, you can still get fatty lumps.

We all love cuddles.

Momma had to take Cat to the vet for a checkup the other day and while they were there she had the doctor guy (he's GREAT he gives us cookies, but Cat doesn't like people touching her inappropriately so it wasn't her idea of a good time) check up all her lumps.  Me n Cat are getting older so our bodies are changing.  The doctor guy felt one he didn't like the feel of.  The others he said "how did you find these, they're so small!" to my momma...it's cause she gives us lots of cuddles.  Anyhoo, Cat told me that the doctor guy stuck a needle in her bum! (editors note: it was a needle in the lump, which is on her croup).  Today momma got a phone call that made her so happy!  She said Cat just had fat in her lump.  PHEW!  Though wait...what else could it have been?  I dunno.  But I'm sure glad we get lotsa cuddles.  But I hope I don't ever have a weird lump cause I sure don't want a needle in my bum, that sounds pretty terrible!

So, Go.  Cuddles for everyone! 
By Porter.