Cystic Pilomatricoma Oh My

We have major happy faces right now - the mass was a cystic pilomatricoma, a BENIGN tumor, a very strange thing I might add. It is multi-lobulated and had odd things growing in each lobe. I will stop there. The doc got all of the surrouding inflammatory tissue where it could possibly expand to  out. It is gone! So, here is my dog with no malignant cancer. YAY!

On another note, this little guy has been in my backyard calling for his mom for about an hour. He is very fluffy and his chest is all spotted. He bounces ok, but I saw him get stuck in some longer grass, and then he had to take a nap because that wore him out so much. Where is mom? It takes all of my being to not try to help in any way possible and to stay away. This is just pulling at my heart strings. But, I keep telling myself that staying away will help the most. Is that right? He just keeps on calling to mom, its sooooo concerning, mostly because its starting to get dark and we have stray cats in the neighborhood, and raccoons and foxes . . . Nature will take care of it, right?

And on yet another note, another little guy keeps digging up a small area of my grass where I planted grass seed. The area is a preteen squirrel-sized indent now, and he keeps rolling around in it. Its super cute to watch and he is just having fun. I tried to get a video of it, but I was inside and that didn't quite work. Here he is drinking from the bird fountain, and you can hear the robin in the background.