We heard her yelp, and she came limping back with her sore paw up in the air. The next morning, she wanted to play ball like usual. Our poor baby! We looked all over her and saw nothing, just like you said. Except there was blood all over the carpet. We heard no yelp, saw no limp, we only found her sleeping under the table as usual at night.
Our little Boston Terrier, Lily, has a broken FRONT dew claw. Going to the vet for a broken dew claw nail seems idiotic, mind you if it is bleeding and doesn’t appear that it is going to stop, the vet would be my first plan of action. That approach just seems so extreme when really we can simply limit the overly active activity as well as keep the nails maintained. I don’t stop her from running playing though.īottom line is we are not going to have her dew claws removed. No more chasing deer out of the hay fields! Nor chasing dragon flies on the lake wharf.įor whatever reason, she can even break a nail from running in the park, chasing her chew toy. She lets me know she hurts, I disinfect and bandage so to support her wobbly broken nail from moving so she can still carry on with normal activity as well as I do try to limit her activity to a point. Seems every summer my dogs breaks her dew claw nails. It was recommended to take the wait and see approach as I could of been just running a line of bad luck. It is such a deep surgery, must be a painful one at that. I talked to our vet about whether or not we should remove my dogs frontal dew claws. You are most welcome Beth, thank you for stopping by. One thing we did do different for the first four days was that I carried her This way, I fixed her up within minutes and her routine went on as normal. I probably would of fussed over my pup far more than necessary. I can not thank my vet assistant friend enough as without her advice, The ribbon is simply cosmetics and is optional. Since it rained an awful lot, we just changed her bandage as needed. The last two times, my girl knew what the routine was. I told her what I did, adding how much of a difference it made for my pup. She told me that her nail was broken and yes, it was one of her fronts. Her small Yorkie mix was limping, off and on.
It wasn’t more than a week later I ran into a friend at the dog park with her five dogs. That suits me fine as I am so not wanting to put my pup through that. That, Perhaps I am having a streak of bad luck. He concluded to not do anything but take the wait and see approach. In talking with the vet about it, he claimed that he never seen front dew clawįamily and friends suggest I have them removed so I brought this up with the This past summer when she was bandaged from her last broken dew claw nail, she had to go in for her shots. The times before that she was just playing hard. Last time she was chasing dragon flys on a dock. Since then, my Roxy has broken her dew claw nails twice more.Įach one last summer on different occasions and this past summer again. That eventually the nail will grown out and fall off.Įight days later, sure enough.
I was told to change the bandage every two Well with her new bandage she was able to resume playing without jerking and The vet told me I would have to come in for X-Rays. My little Yorkie is very hairy, especially on her legs and paws. I noticed she was favoring her paw but could not find any sore spots Prior to finding the problem myself, I had called the vet. She stood up and began licking me like mad. I gently taped up the gauze and finished off with wrapping a white Holding her nail in the place it would normally be. I had her sit quietly while I moved as much hair away as I could, I didn’t want to cut the nail off as it would need to be cut into the quick. I thought of what I would feel like if that were me. Once we got her all cleaned up, I was able to take a better look. The blood from her broken toe nail had dried and her hair was I had her soak her paw in the bowl of water for about five minutes. Once back inside, I added a small amount of Epsom Salts I carried her out for potty and stopped at the car for our Her dew claw nail was broken off, right at the quick but Scratch under her small arms and up her legs, It wasn’t until she lay flat out on her back for her belly rub, I gently touched each of her tiny toes and nothing. Starting at the shoulder, I worked my way down. When I put her coat on and when I groomed her. Jerking away in midst of play, with a yelp.
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