Ziggy's busy few weeks!

Mr Ziggy has had a busy few weeks with holiday, days out, weekends away, visitors and seeing his dermatology specialist so there is a lot to catch up with!

But most of all, he has been busy being handsome, just like this:

Ziggy is off the steroids and antibiotics and only on the Cyclosporin for his allergies and I'm pretty certain he has some tufts of new fur!  This is very exciting as it has been a long journey to get past the skin infections and getting the right medication and treatment since he first arrived, looking like this:

He has had a lot of problems with his ears, a combination of the allergies and bacterial infection but we've recently started new cleaner and gel and after just a week his ears are way better and not causing him to scratch.  Ziggy still has a bath every few days as it has been a combined effort of topical treatment as well as medication but we are getting there.

I've had time off work as our lovely friend Jana has been visiting from Seattle.  We got to know each other through Twitter back in 2009 when Wiggle met Jana's choccie girl Lucy and from then on we have been the best of friends.  While Jana was here, we did a lot of tourist things including taking Ziggy down to Southbourne Beach.  Sofy chose not to come by refusing all bribes and not moving from her bed.

I don't know if Ziggy had been to the seaside before but he had fun, running around and splashing in the sea:

While Jana was here we spent a few days in London so Sofy stayed with my mum and Ziggy went to stay with his would-be girlfriend, Lilly.  He loves Lilly so was very excited when she came to stay with us for the weekend.  While she was here, she had a bath and so did Squirrel which meant that the 3 Labbies got together to plan how they could rescue Squirrel from the washing line.....

Before Jana left we took Ziggy and Lilly for a date night at the pub.  They both got some leftovers of our dinner as they were both on their best behaviour.

Now that everything is back to normal we are trying to keep cool during this warm weather.  Ziggy does not cope well with the heat and has been a bit under the weather but he's fine now and staying out of the sunshine.  Sofy has been enjoying their new pool but Ziggy isn't sure yet....