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Dealing with a cut on Annie

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Several days ago Annie came in the house licking her front leg. When I went to investigate I saw a nice gash!
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I've seen her run through the woods, not on the path, but through the brush and figured she got jabbed by something! I have seen her do that before and worried about that very thing. She is such a runner! She flies around here!

I cleaned it, soaked with Vashe and tried bandaging it.
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Nothing lasted very long. In fact sometimes it was only minutes. I even ordered a inflatable cone which she didn't seem to mind and it worked fairly well. Till one day I saw her scratching at it with a hind leg! :tap: Reaching it quite well and just scratching the bandage off. :facepalm:
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So I've been in contact with Dr. Don! Yes. @Ddski5 He has been a wealth of information to me not only for this but on a number of other health issues.:ty: Bless you!

Some of you may remember he posted his own thread on an injury that looks almost exactly like Annie's!

Ddski5

Thread 'Puncture wound to the side flank'

11/10/21
So I am in my shop working on my old car and like always Ragnar and Freyja are in the yard running around like Mustangs in the wild. I really need to get video of this because they run so fast and hard, they sound like horses running. They have no nails so when they run straight line towards the picket fence, Freyja has actually busted 4-8ft pickets off posted 4x4s. Crazy to see her hit it that hard, roll and get up chasing Ragnar, it only makes her angry.

Anyways, I am sitting in my shop and Freyja comes in and lays down and I see a little pool of blood seeping down the...
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Taking his advice, we shaved the area to help with some of the bandaging. He even steered me in the right direction on a purchase of a shaver! I didn't own one!

So my husband and I carefully shaved the area as best we could. Then cleaned it, used the Vashe again and applied antibacterial ointment and bandaged again. Still we were having trouble keeping the bandage on. 🤦‍♀️It's in a terrible spot for wrapping. Just above the elbow and with every movement it seems to dislodge the bandage.
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When Don suggested a shirt, I forfeited one of my thin long sleeve shirts. This was last night. Looks good, right?
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When I let her out of the crate in the morning, she was naked! :blush-alt:Somehow she got out of that shirt! Sigh. So back to square one again.

I went through the motions of taking care of the wound again and then put on her inflatable cone. So far so good. But this is going to be a long recovery I'm afraid. Not so much for her as for me. LOL She acts like nothing happened! Never limping, never crying in pain and still runs like an idiot. Which I do have to keep under wraps now to help keep the bandage on.

Only when I'm actually touching it is she jumpy. It took two of us to do the Shaving and caring for the wound last night. I'll be checking it out later by myself.. probably with lots of treats! Later I'm going to be looking for another shirt to Forfeit. Anything for my girl.🥰
 
Ouch that looks painful! Poor baby. I can see how the location of the wound is a real pain to keep bandaged. My dobe is clumsy as heck and always smashing into things and getting random scabs. I dread the day she actually really hurts herself.

I hope recovery goes well!
 
If it's just under-the-skin deep, I'd use Vetricyn and the elizabethan collar, no bandage, but keep her in and keep it clean. If it's a deep puncture, you might opt to see a vet, let them explore deep to make sure there's no piece of stick or something that needs to be removed before it heals over. I thought the shirt looks like a most excellent idea, if she'd keep it on overnight! It looks too high to get a vetwrap cover around it.
 
Ugh I hate when they do that. Della had a pretty good gouge on her back when she ran into a bolt on our well casing when she was chasing a chipmunk.
I put Vetericyn on it and left it uncovered and it healed fairly quickly.
MyBuddy said:
He even steered me in the right direction on a purchase of a shaver! I didn't own one!
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With this breed we don't need them often but the Red Cross dog first aid course I took said every dog owner should own them in case of an injury.
 
i love the shirt idea.. at least it worked part of the time and she looked so cute in it.. as long as she is eating.. and no fever.. i would say it will heal fine.. by keeping it clean.. and keeping an eye on it..
 
If it is a deep puncture and you don’t have a vet, you have to keep it clean and monitor it. It will heal from inside out so you will need to be aware of any underlying pus pockets. Puncture wounds are the worse for this because the point of object can go in deep and then tissue covers the deepest part.

Red/pink fleshy color is good. Green, yellowish, purplish brings me concern that there is an infection pus somewhere.

When rinsing, cleaning with wound solution and packing with antibiotic gel, be vigorous and feel/squeeze around sides, pinch under wound feeling for hard spots, mushy spots that may be filled with pus. Also be aware of the surface temp of the skin. Warm/hot to touch tends to mean infection. If you feel a pocket, try to pinch or pop like a pimple and get the pus or serous fluid out and then flush again with wound care solution.

Freyja’s wound got very warm to touch and yup…after feeling around, she had a pocket on bottom right of her puncture wound. Once I popped it and got the push or out and wound care solution in there, it healed quickly.

Don’t be concerned about making it bleed when scraping the nasty crud out or aggressively feeling around for a pocket. It can actually be good, that’s the clue that you have gotten down to good viable oxygenated tissue that’s ready to heal.

Dobermans are the hardest…they are just so active, it’s hard to keep anything on them- lots of trial and error and making good, funny memories.
 
I guess I'll never be a doctor. :spit: I thought it looks kind of nasty. Still like a gaping wound.:green:
 
I love me some 1/4 strength Dakins solution and Elastikon tape.

Dakins you can make at home and may already have all of the ingredients... Gentle as water, not toxic to any cells trying to heal / grow, will absolutely kill any germies...

Can be safely used on puncture wounds, wounds where the meat / hide is missing completely...

Learned about that stuff after that car accident we were in from one of the specialists treating the wife at the time. She literally lost an open hand size chunk of meat right off the top of her head. There was no skin there to 'pull together' and stitch up. Only option was to keep things very, very clean and allow things to heal.

Used 1/4 strength Dakins we had our local pharmacy make for us on the wife (several times a day for a long time) and made our own (same 1/4 strength) Dakins at home to use on the dog.

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Nothing ever got infected on either the dog or the wife... :)

Dog had enough 'loose' skin that good tissue was able to pulled together and stitched up but the wounds did require frequent cleaning. After about 6 months or so you had to look very, very hard to be able to spot any damage on the dog at all. Wife took a bit longer
 
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