Shake a Leg

[Kuma]: I had a sense of deja vu.

[Jak]: I knew something was up when I got supper...then no breakfast the next morning...and another long road trip with Dad.

I got my other knee fixed.

small brown dog wearing a pink plastic cone and inflatable grey collar, lying on an orange blanket on a grey car seat

[Jak]: I'm so glad to be home again. Even with...

[Together]: Nikki!

[Kuma]: You rock that haircut! Those vets at at Liverpool University's Small Animal Teaching Hospital (opens in a new tab) are great with their clippers.

view of a small brown dog's back showing shaved legs and back. The dog is wearing a pink plastic cone and inflatable grey collar, and is lying on a red fleece blanket

[Jak]: Do you know that some of the kids around our way think I'd had my hair cut as a fashion statement? I don't know what they'll make of two shaved legs.

[Kuma]: Ha! It is taking a long time to grow back. Good job it's summer now.

[Jak]: It'd feel cooler...if only I didn't have to wear the cone...and the padded collar...

[Kuma]: Well, you had the cone last time...because you wouldn't behave. Why the extra gear?

[Jak]: I disgraced myself a bit at the hospital by pulling out the staples in my wound. The padded thing stopped me getting anywhere near it again.

I still can't help myself if the collar is removed. It itches, OK.

[Kuma]: I heard you went to our vet to have all the staples removed and there were hardly any left. Did you eat them? That's nasty.

[Jak]: Says you who eats everything from beak to tail on things you kill.

[Kuma]: I'm designed to do that. You're going to regret what you did though.

[Jak]: I'm fine. I'm healing. It won't be long before I can go on walks again.

[Kuma]: Weeks, I've heard...just saying...