Abbie's Owie

On June 2, 2010 I was getting ready for our Moms and Tots playdate that Kolbie and I go to with ladies from our church and walked out of the bathroom to find blood all over my kitchen, hallway, and living room. In a panic I yelled for Kolbie, and when Sahaan and her both responded, we knew some thing else was up. After pinning the dogs into the kitchen and lifting paws, we found Abbie's back right pad of her foot was split open and the tissue and blood were open to the air (and my floors). So after a long morning at the vet, we determined that for the time and cost involved that surgery was the best solution.

This was Abbie after surgery that afternoon. She had to be lifted into the truck and then also lifted into the house. She was very groggy. She did not walk until the first time at like 7:30pm that night.

The sewed up the pad on her foot and she went back on the Friday (4th) to be rechecked. They said she looked great, unbandaged it and sent us home. Little to our dismay, she woke up Saturday morning, with NO stiches in her foot. She had chewed, licked or some thing them out.

So then came the sock approach for the weekend. She had a sock on with Kai's WALK/RIDE shoe laces woven through it. She didn't mind the sock at all and walked around normal until we could get her in Monday (7th).

Though they told us to do the sock plan and they had rebandaged it Saturday morning, on Monday it had not allowed any air to it, and so they had to strip all the coverings off it it and allow it to air out. They recommended we not do surgery again, and to just allow it to dry out, put her on antibiotics and let it heal from the inside out. So that is what we are now doing.


However, to keep her from licking her paw and to allow it to heal, she gets to wear this lovely cone around her neck. She doesn't try to get it off, however she runs into anything and everything with it and it hurts like the dickens. This is a much "prettier" picture of it, now it is cracked and missing a chunk out of it, due to her strength and not caring when it's stuck on some thing. She just keeps going like a bulldozer and gets through, no matter what happens to the cone.

She will be wearing this for 4-8 more days, and then we will be taking it off and doing the booty idea for night time. We are hoping after 4-8 more days it will be mended together well enough, that she will just leave it alone. The Vet has said it looks great and is healing well with no infection. I just think it looks grose and am glad Abbie loves taking her medication. Dakota doesn't quite know what to think of it all, but is patiently waiting for Abbie to be 100% so she can get back to being chased around the yard.