[nagdu] Small injury

[Lisa]

Hi everyone,

so today Taylor had his first smaller injury since he's with me so I'm a 
newbie on this topic and would be thankful for any advice.

We have a low bathroom shelf  and on top of that was a glass. Taylor managed 
to push the glass to the edge of the shelf and let it fall on the floor. So 
apparently it broke, I was immediately there and took the dog into another 
room to remove the shards. But then I noticed Taylor was licking his 
forelegs and when I touched them, there was blood on my fingers. At first, I 
was very terrified just because I never experienced such an incident before. 
But I washed the legs with a wet wipe and tried to see if there was a lot of 
blood or just a bit. Luckily, the latter was the case. There seemed to be a 
small cut on his upper leg but the bleeding had already stopped. The 
prpoblem was, however, that he was licking his leg continously and caused it 
to start bleeding again.
I decided it was definitely no emergency and probably no case for the vet at 
all. But still I'm a little insecure about how to handle this. Should I let 
him lick the wound (that btw. I can't even  find and nothing seems to hurt 
him so it must be very small) and accept the fact that it starts bleeding 
again, or should I maybe bandage it and hope that he won't be able to lick 
it then?
What really makes me insecure is just that I couldn't overlook the situation 
properly. I was so scared at first.
So, experienced dog owners, what do you personally do in such a situation?

Greetings from Germany
Lisa