[nagdu] Small injury

[Daryl Marie]

Hi, Lisa,
So glad your boy is OK.

I wouldn't let him lick it further. Some dogs can excessively lick at an injury and cause further infection. I would take him to the vet and have it looked at, especially if it keeps reopening due to licking... and if he moves too much it could reopen as well.
If the bleeding is stopped, though, I would recommend a "cone of shame". It looks like a lamp shade, and you thread a collar theough it so it stays on. It's not pretty, but sometimes it's the only way to avoid the licking.

Good luck!

Daryl

----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Lisa <dreamymarmot93 at yahoo.de>
Sent: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 07:54:22 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [nagdu] Small injury

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 


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