Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: prefacing this with 2 things;

1. this happened yesterday, not today.
2. this is a tiafu [almost], not a full tifu

so here's how it goes.  i've had a few dogs in my life, but never girl dogs.  it's been some years since my last one, and we picked up a little shiba puppy some months ago who is now 6 months old.  so we're going to get her spayed at 6 months, as recommended by the breeder and our vet - and the day we scheduled the surgery, she went into heat!  this means that we have to wait 6-8 weeks before she can actually be spayed.  no matter, we're dealing with that.

anyways, yesterday i was giving her a belly rub (she's extra-needy on her heat cycle) and i feel a lump.  it felt kind of scabby-ish, and my first thought was "she has a tick!?"  so i move around the fur, and find a scabby looking extrusion from the skin on her chest.  holy shit, it dug under the skin - its a big one!  i should get rid of it before it causes trouble, it might have been there since a week ago when we went through the forest on a walk.

so i tell my wife, whom is at work - and we both start looking up how to fix it.  tweezers? rubber gloves? vaseline?  isopropyl alcohol?  time to run to the store.  get the supplies, now wait for the wife to come home from work so we can double-team the puppy (she puts up a fight with this kind of stuff, like nail clipping).

wife gets home, and we're prepping for surgery.  i'm feeling around to find the exact spot of the issue, and i find it - wait, its smaller.  it's not in the same spot... oh shit she has multiple ticks!  wife is shocked, so i'm looking around, how many more of these things are there?  what'd she do, go running through a tick hive or something?

all in all i found about 5 ticks, all on her chest - finally found the initial one, and of course - its twice the size of the others.  we get the area vaselined up, because thats supposed to suffocate the tick and cause it to unburrow from the skin.  we've now successfully isolated all 5 of the locations, and i'm getting ready to take the tweezers and start poking around.  i'm ready to pinch and pull until the thing comes off if thats what it takes.

wife steps back for a second, looks at our configuration of vaseline identified sites; "wait... are those her nipples?"  doubt floods my mind.  wait, are they?  what?  go to check the computer, how many nipples do dogs have?  4-8?  oh, she's in heat and they might be portruding as a result?  well shit, ok babe - clean off the vaseline.  false alarm.

 

also, the nipples are a bit weird (kind of scabby-ish in appearance, and one looks inverted and has dried blood in it).  we'll be getting that checked out obviously.

TIFU by almost excising my puppies nipples [Almost]