Woobie came in from outside and started licking at his front paw. I checked it out and the nail on his outside toe was pointing up and underneath was this white and bloody stump! Holy cow did it look painful! I took him to the vet and they trimmed up the nail, said it would probably fall off and cleaned it out, gave him an injection for the pain and gave us Rimadyl and Simplicef to give at home for the next 8 days. He has to keep it bandaged up for a while as the quick heals over and forms a protective covering. When he's standing, the poor thing just holds the paw up in the air, it must just be throbbing, it looked so raw and exposed.
Keeping him quiet should be fun once he's feeling better. And Indie is determined to chew off the soft cast for him! The best thing about the visit is that I found out that the vet I met at the dog park and really liked is actually a new vet at my old vet's practice! So now I get the best of a new vet fresh with new ideas from school (she turned me on to arabinogalactan powder for Woobie's anal glands) and the old vet who's been with m for years that I love!
I'd have taken gory pictures but my daughter's run off to NYC and took her digital camera with her. You're lucky, it was gross!
30 lbs. by Christmas, down 4 lbs., 26 to go!!!
