Recently poor Ted has been in the wars. He is now under house arrest, no walks and life with a buster collar, a hind foot boot, as well as two hourly eye drops (for his existing dry eye condition).
OH noticed on yesterday’s dog walk that Ted was holding up his back leg more than usual (it’s a terrier thing walking occasionally on three legs).
Upon closer examination, we discovered that Ted had sliced off a good chunk of the pad on his back paw. Ouch. Horrid for Ted. We have no idea how he did this.
As it was nice and clean, and Ted didn’t seem at all distressed by this turn of events, I phoned the vets who said to clean it up, put a dressing on and it should heal. So we did that, borrowing a very useful foot boot too.
Luckily, I have a very large first aid kit that basically consists of everything, including sticky hydrocolloid dressings, which are proving very useful. Micropore sticky tape is also helpful in this case.
Ted is very good about all of this. The buster collar is to stop him trying to get the boot off and I think is a slightly kinder version of the lampshade version. At night, the boot comes off to let his paw air a bit.
And Ted is being a stoic. He is the perfect patient who is pretty good about the dressing and is not that sad about the lack of dog-walks for the time being.
Obviously there is a treat as reward for every ministration so it is worth it.
With all this nursing, I hope Ted’s paw heals quickly and cleanly.
