How to wrap a paw?

Going on when Ellie's entire middle needed to be wrapped, I'd probably use a Telfa pad so as not to stick, these are absolute life savers. Then you wrap with gauze bandages up in a sling like manner from the paw up the leg...THEN go around in a circular manner around the diameter of the leg with said same gauze, til the fur is covered. THEN I tape over it...with duct or adhesive medical tape. I do stick it to the fur...because sometimes you just have to to get it to stay. The sock over top with duct tape is optional but might help the dressing last longer. I would change AT LEAST twice a day. If you use ACE bandages instead of gauze it will help because you can resuse them and wash them. 

BUT sometimes air actually is needed to heal a wound so simply leaving it open if she is holding it up an hour or two might actually speed things along.

 If I don't wrap it, she licks it.. which means.... "the cone".  Though I wonder if she could still get to her foot with a cone on...

What about using a baby sock?  Soft so it shouldn't cause more rubbing and less risk of wrapping it too tight.

I agree with everything that Gina suggested, but I use vet wrap instead of the guaze wrap.  It's the non-sticky tape stuff and keeps the dressing in place, plus is harder to get through.  And then a sock on top of that.

Feet and tails are tough........

stardog85

What about using a baby sock?  Soft so it shouldn't cause more rubbing and less risk of wrapping it too tight.

 Tried a sock and she ate the sock.  :(  So far she can't seem to eat the tape, or at least she's not as interested in eating the tape.

being that it's tape...you can spray it with Bitter Apple as well, to discourage her messing with it.

 I always do a long baby sock, wrapped about 2/3 up with vet wrap, folded down. That is somehow REALLY hard for them to remove, and it breathes. At least, mine have never removed it. Bean got nasty, oozy, red toes a few times, when she was younger, from licking her feet. That's what we did.

jennie_c_d

 I always do a long baby sock, wrapped about 2/3 up with vet wrap, folded down. That is somehow REALLY hard for them to remove, and it breathes. At least, mine have never removed it. Bean got nasty, oozy, red toes a few times, when she was younger, from licking her feet. That's what we did.

 And she didn't chew through the sock?

The gauze should breathe and the tape I bought was "clear, breathable" medical tape from CVS, so I'm hoping it breathes.  At this point it needs to  not move on her foot because even when I added Neosporin last night, she was jumpy about it.  Apparently it hurts. :(  She hasn't removed the bandages so far, so that's what we're sticking with.  She does lick the tape but the gauze is completely covered in tape so she can't chew on the gauze at all.  I really should try to get a picture of it to post.

 Nope. I put some Neosporin plus pain relief on  the foot, and she left it alone, both times.

jennie_c_d

 Nope. I put some Neosporin plus pain relief on  the foot, and she left it alone, both times.

Is she normally a chewer of fabric though?  Tasha definitely is.  I took some pics.

The owie.

The wrapping.  She seems to be leaving it alone and last night when I changed it, the sore looked drier, so hopefully it is healing.