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Your vet doesn't offer emergency care? I'd call every vet in the area and leave messages.

 If its still bleeding

 apply a pressure pad-gauze or a clean towel-until it stops.  Some kind of antiseptic, not alcohol definitely not peroxide. Maybe a 3 in 1 antibiotic.

Try for a vet 

If you can not get a vet tonight, keep the dog quiet.

My Rags and Bear used to get into it once in a while, usually at night or on a weekend when the vet was not available.  The vet would dust the wounds with an antiseptic powder, sew up the cuts, and give antibiotics when I got to him. 

I know you are going to worry, so I wont tell you not to.  But a well fed healthy dog can take a lot of abuse and survive. If the dog doesn't seem  in pain or distressed, it may not be too serious.  A little blood goes a long way.

 If it's just a puncture wound (and didn't punture a vein) and the dog seems ok other wise, some anitbacterial cream (even human kind will work) and a clean guaze pad and wrapped with a guaze bandage so it stays on.  We get puncture wounds from time to time and unless they get infected or else are more serious than just a tooth puncture, almost never take our dogs to the vet. It helps that my wife has a medical background and tons of steril bandages, guaze pads, the guaze type wraps and buys lots of medicine (both canine and human) to have on hand.   We do use peroxide, both on wounds, on blood spots (it's great for getting up blood) and to induce vomiting when a dog eats something they shouldn't.  Feel it every once in awhile. If it feels hot, then it may be getting infected and you shoul d have it checked so the vet can clean it out and use something a bit stronger.

 You can get the cream and bandages at a drug store. The human kind work just fine for dogs.

Mike
 

 Well finally got a hold of my vet he told me to put peroxide on it  and keep a eye on him as long as he is acting normal just take him to the vet in the morning. Thanks guys I can deal with small wounds but when I saw that quarter size hole I just lost it that's new territory that I have never been there before. Now I'm trying to find a ride to the vet tomorrow and how I'm going to make a harness since putting a collar on him isn't a option.

You can make a harness with a longer leash -- if you can let his collar out as far as possible so it rides LOWER than normal to avoid the wound.  Clip the leash to the collar and have the D-ring at the middle of the back of his head.

Pull the leash back about 8" and hold it with one hand (so it's back behind his shoulders) and loop the leash UNDER his body, back up and under where you were holding the leash.  This will hold the collar "back" hopefully below the wound and yet the pressure will be on the middle of the back not on his neck.

Otherwise you'll need to take a piece of clothesline and make a loop like a slipknot at the end (tie a hard knot in it at the end so it doesn't slip out) - go to the right of his neck, and in front of his chest and then back UNDER his *left* leg and thread the other end thru the slip knot loop -- still hold it but then do the same thing by going to the left of his neck, crossing in front and go under his right leg, back up and thru the slip knot again.

 It's way more complicated and isn't easy on/off but you can make it secure.

 Well back from the vet Blue got a little shave and two staples with antibiotics for the next several days. I have to take him back in 10 days to get the staples removed other then that Blue did fine and is resting.

I'm glad he's ok. 

Are you rehoming Cady? I'm glad Blue is okay.

tiffy

Are you rehoming Cady? I'm glad Blue is okay.

With a heavy heart yes I will be rehoming  Cadey I was hoping things could work, but it isn't. I will miss her she is amazing dog despite her flaws  she really open my love for the pit bulls, but I can't let this happen again. I just don't where to begin on rehoming her.

bluelighting

tiffy

Are you rehoming Cady? I'm glad Blue is okay.

 

With a heavy heart yes I will be rehoming  Cadey I was hoping things could work, but it isn't. I will miss her she is amazing dog despite her flaws  she really open my love for the pit bulls, but I can't let this happen again. I just don't where to begin on rehoming her.

It won't be easy.  You have to be honest about her putting a serious hole in another dog, and she has to go to a home with NO other pets with an owner that can keep her out of trouble in public, too.  The number of "level three" homes is limited, and Pits with a history are a dime a dozen.  With all the dogs available that haven't got a history, you may have a very hard time placing her and rescue may not want the liability.  Till then, these two dogs should have no contact.  Crate and rotate.  Quarter sized holes in throats are not predictive of a blossoming relationship, as you know, and you need to keep Blue safe.  This should also be a lesson to those with a soft spot for Pits that you shouldn't adopt one unless it has been thoroughly evaluated for safety with other dogs by a professional who knows the breed, and who is very careful about making decisions.  It really isn't always "just how you raise them."  It's a combination of that, plus training, plus (sadly, and hoping for improvement) genetics.  The reality is that some of these dogs will decide at the age of social maturity that they just don't like other dogs, or a particular other dog, and then you have giant problems.  At that age, most dogs do have some sparring about social status, but they rarely damage one another, they just work it out.  In this case, you have two large dogs, one of which is willing to put holes in the other to prove her point.  Not good.

spiritdogs

bluelighting

tiffy

Are you rehoming Cady? I'm glad Blue is okay.

 

With a heavy heart yes I will be rehoming  Cadey I was hoping things could work, but it isn't. I will miss her she is amazing dog despite her flaws  she really open my love for the pit bulls, but I can't let this happen again. I just don't where to begin on rehoming her.

 

It won't be easy.  You have to be honest about her putting a serious hole in another dog, and she has to go to a home with NO other pets with an owner that can keep her out of trouble in public, too.  The number of "level three" homes is limited, and Pits with a history are a dime a dozen.  With all the dogs available that haven't got a history, you may have a very hard time placing her and rescue may not want the liability.  Till then, these two dogs should have no contact.  Crate and rotate.  Quarter sized holes in throats are not predictive of a blossoming relationship, as you know, and you need to keep Blue safe.  This should also be a lesson to those with a soft spot for Pits that you shouldn't adopt one unless it has been thoroughly evaluated for safety with other dogs by a professional who knows the breed, and who is very careful about making decisions.  It really isn't always "just how you raise them."  It's a combination of that, plus training, plus (sadly, and hoping for improvement) genetics.  The reality is that some of these dogs will decide at the age of social maturity that they just don't like other dogs, or a particular other dog, and then you have giant problems.  At that age, most dogs do have some sparring about social status, but they rarely damage one another, they just work it out.  In this case, you have two large dogs, one of which is willing to put holes in the other to prove her point.  Not good.

I agree with it all it just sucks that she is like this we had a good year and half. I will make sure I find her a better home and if it does boil down to no other choice I will put her down, but that is the very last option.

 Well, I certainly agree that euthanasia is the very last option.  There are people who can do the "crate and rotate" successfully and keep a dog like Cadey for good.  That means no mistakes, no mishaps.  But, if you really want to keep her, and have the ability to do that, then go for it.

 They get along ok and can be together in the same room with no problem it's just when she gets super excited like zoomie high is where the problem she reacts to it. Which is what happen she got zoomie happy and was under BF's watch.