With only one day off this week I'm not sure which end is up today, but I accompanied the housemate to the dog optician (there is a whole colony of vet specialty clinics in Campbell, once one negotiates the spaghetti of highways to get there) and we learned that he does not have a tumor in his eye, just a freckle. Well, a cyst of iris pigment. So nothing needs to be done unless it starts bothering him, and he was comparatively well behaved: didn't growl at the other dogs, only stuck his nose in four people's crotches, was willing to get in the car although he now needs an assist, which he hates.
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