What Happened to Furbie?

Poor poor Furbie. What was your reaction when you saw this?

"What.....?"

You were lost for words. Hehe.. we thought that you'd ask him your favourite question: Are you ok? But you only uttered that single word when you saw him.

What happened to Furbie? Well, he's been having some skin problems. The doctor calls it "yeast infection". Nope, it's not harmful to us, and neither is it to Furbie, but it does cause him a lot of discomfort. And it didn't seem to be getting better from the last visit to the vet. So we took him to see the vet on Saturday, leaving you with Ah Kong and Ah Ma.

Although I would take up any other alternatives that the vet would have to offer, he said that the best way to totally cure Furbie of this skin problem was to have him totally bald. So he had to be sedated before the vet shaved him bald.. totally... We took him home, waited for him to be less groggy and for you to take your afternoon nap before giving him a bath in the medicated shampoo and applied medicine to him. He seems to be better, but losing all this hair made him feel the cold. Kakak says on Monday morning when it rained heavily he was trembling, despite her putting on a towel for him to keep warm as well as his t-shirt. Poor little Furbie.

I hope that his skin problem will improve faster. But we will need to keep him short haired for at least 6 months. I hope that when we visit the vet in 2 weeks time, his skin would have improved.