This morning I went on walk with Shunka and Katinka while Jessica was at work. It was a walk to the woods and the beach. The whole morning Shunka and I were playing during the walk. While we were returning home in the woods, Shunka suddenly saw a rabbit and went hunting it. While Katinka and I were waiting for Shunka to come back, we were standing in a spot near to the water. I decided to go in the water and play there a bit. After a while I returned to Katinka and we went a bit further, when Katinka suddenly noticed a blood trail. She followed the blood trail and ended up with me.
She started to look at my paws and saw that my left back paw was missing a piece of pad and that it was bleeding very heavily. To make sure I didn’t get any infection, she decided to clean it to see how deep the cut was. She called for Shunka and hurried direction home with us until we got to a place where there was clean water. She cleaned the cut and saw how bad it was and decided to call the vet. Luckily he was home and we could go to him in a half an hour.
So instead of going home we went directly to the vet. Once there, I was in a lot of pain and wouldn’t be so calm any more. When the vet wanted to inspect my paw, I wouldn’t allow it any more and I had to were a muzzle and he gave me some sedative with a light painkiller in it. After that I don’t really know what happened, but apparently the following happened after me falling asleep. The vet inspected the wound and decided to put some staples to hold the different pieces of pad together. Then he put a bandage around it and told Katinka that it has to be changed daily.
When we got home, Katinka’s boyfriend had already arrived with some bandages and a two warm fleeces for me to sleep on and to put on me. Meanwhile Katinka called Jessica to ask her to come home so that she could watch me because Katinka had to go to work.
When Jessica came home, I was still sleeping. But I was wiggling my ears a bit and after about 10 minutes I opened my eyes again. Jessica stayed with me the rest of the afternoon, evening and night. But it still took some time for me to really wake up. Around 3pm I was moving more and around 4pm my eyes were more open. Around 5:30pm I walked around again for the first time and around 6pm my leg with the wounded pad began to hurt. So I started to squeak louder and louder. Jessica’s father started to panic and called the vet to ask what to do. The vet told him that it could be my bandage that was getting to tight and that they should rebind the bandage. So Jessica started taking of the bandage, but suddenly ran into a bit of a problem because the bandage was sticking to my wound and it was hard to take it of. She took five long minutes to get it loose bit by bit, but once it was loose I wasn’t hurting so much any more.
And now the healing problem begins.