After schutzhund training today we noticed that Marco was limping slightly. The surgeon that repaired his broken leg back in July said that would be normal, but then I thought it looked like he was limping on the front. The broken leg was on the back. After some investigation, my wife and I discovered a scratch or light cut in between two of the toes. Now he's digging at it. Is there anything I can do to help it heal?
It says in that article that a new bandage should be applied each time the antibiotic is applied. I have no doubt that he will eat any type of bandage that I apply and I'm quite sure he's going to lick off the ointment if I don't. Any suggestions? Also, is it o.k. to keep bringing him to training?
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Do you have a bootie? Can you improvise one? Or do you have a way to keep his mouth away from the bandage, like a donut or elizabethan collar for his neck?
Is it very superficial? I don't know the training answer .... but if you post a photo link to show how it looks when it has calmed down overnight, I feel sure that people will see it before you need to decide on training.
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If he's distracted by the cut paw, I wouldn't train. I'd think you want to make sure all of his focus is on the training. If it's a minor cut, it should heal quickly, and you might not miss much.
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We used to have one of those cone collars when broke his leg but he hated it so much he destroyed it. And that was when he was sedated? I know for sure any bandage, bootie anything like that I going to last about 2 seconds. If I put some neosporin on it and he licks it, can that hurt him?
Use the inflatable collars instead of a cone on dogs that destroy cones if you were to come to my hospital we would make sure there was no foreign body in the wound clean it up with chlorhexidine bandage it and cone him and rebandage every 3 days use a nonstick pad first then a soft padding layer then coban it
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Quote: Kory Fox
We used to have one of those cone collars when broke his leg but he hated it so much he destroyed it. And that was when he was sedated? I know for sure any bandage, bootie anything like that I going to last about 2 seconds. If I put some neosporin on it and he licks it, can that hurt him?
I don't use those conehead ones any more because of a few dogs I've had who were pretty traumatized by it. Now that there are several alternatives, I have three of those alternatives on hand (a donut, a flexible flying-sauce-type thing that encircles the neck, and one that's like the donut but I inflate it.
About the neosporin: I think (and I am not a health professional) that it's safe to ingest a small amount.
I wash the superficial cut, blot it dry, apply the small amount of neosporin, and gently massage it in.
That is probably what I would do if I were you. I might reapply it once at bedtime. And in the morning I'd go get a bandage and a better collar.
I know they conehead collars don't bother every dog, and they've been in use forever, and sometimes they have to be used, but I sure try to avoid it.
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