Abby and Ellie

I've already told a lot of you this story in person, but I'll put it down here cause it's so cute.

So, poor little Abby the Dog had surgery on her leg and she's been licking her incision, so the vet gave us a cone to put on her. For awhile, we took the cone off at night so she could sleep without it, but she would just lick her leg at night and parts of the wound started looking infected. So the girl at the vet said to keep the cone on all the time.

One night, I was getting Ellie to bed and Abby was next to us and Ellie told me to take the cone off so Abby could sleep next to her. I told her that we can't do that anymore because the vet told us not to. Ellie's eyes immediately filled up with tears and she threw herself on me and buried her face in my neck.

"Abby's not comfortable!" she wailed. "She can't sleep with the cone on!" I hugged her and told her I know it's hard but Abby was licking too much and the girl at the vet's office told us that we have to keep the cone on all the time. Ellie was mad.

"How would the vet like it if she had to have a cone on her neck? She wouldn't like it at all! So she shouldn't make Abby wear a cone all the time!" I was seriously about to bust out laughing as I pictured the girl at the vet with a cone around her head, but I put on a solemn face and agreed that she probably wouldn't like to wear a cone. Not at all.

Ellie selflessly declared that she wished she could have the cone on her own neck instead of Abby and she gave me another tortured sob, but she finally resigned herself to Abby's fate. And I have to admit that Abby is quite the pathetic creature right now, when she nestles her head on the big plastic cone to try to sleep and rams it into things when she tries to walk around.