So… yeah. Mobius broke his right dew claw tonight. Came in through the door with a bloody foot, and what looks like a finger bent out of position. Sort of figured it was like breaking a nail (not like, breaking a nail. Like, hitting your thumb with a hammer), but decided it’d be best to go to the vet anyway. $150 later, the vet had pulled out the broken claw, and wrapped up his foot. More or less what I expected, but I’m glad it was looked at by a pro, and not say, us with a Leatherman. Not that I’d have done that to the dog.
But yeah. All’s well, I suppose. This dog definitely adds a sense of adventure to our lives, every so often. Heh.
Make sure the wound doesn’t get infected, either by cleaning the wound or replacing the bandages or taking him back to the vet for a checkup. We took one of our cats to get declawed and they ended up cutting too much of the nail off, so they bandaged it up to let it heal. It ended up getting infected and they had to amputate the cat’s leg. We then affectionately re-named the cat “Tripod” after that.
Not sure if the circumstances are the same, but just a word of caution, I guess.
– Mike
That “Heh” makes it sound like you enjoy the fact that your dog broke his claw.
You sick bastard.
:p
A_B