Baxter needed his toenails cut really bad, which he HATES to have done. He starts to whine and go a little bit crazy. As I was holding him down and Richie was cutting his nails, Baxter jumped at the last moment and Richie accidentally cut his nail REALLY short. For those of you who have ever cut a dogs nails before, you know that you can't go too short or you will actually cut their flesh (even though it looks like nail) and they will bleed. Well, this was 10 times as bad because he got his nail cut really short and then we could not get it to stop bleeding. We didn't know what to do...if fact I should take a picture of his dog bed, which is where we put him to try and contain the blood...now Baxter needs a new bed.
Our final solution was, after about an hour of trying to get the bleeding to stop, to tie a maxi pad around his foot and tape it on. However, Baxter did not like this home made bandage on his foot, so then we had to give him some tranquilizers that we had left over from when he got neutered (is that what it is for a dog?) so that he would not try and take the bandage off.
Geesh!! Crazy couple of hours.
Here is the big guy sleeping on the couch with his maxi pad foot...how
embarrassing!!
Up close of the maxi pad bandage...
The Big Guy is pretty tough, so I am sure we will get to take the bandage off in a couple hours and he will be fine!!
Up close of the maxi pad bandage...
The Big Guy is pretty tough, so I am sure we will get to take the bandage off in a couple hours and he will be fine!!
3 comments:
That is so sad. . .poor guy. Makes me cringe thinking about the pain he was going through.
Mar, that's so sad :(. It makes me get the wheeby geeby's. I'm sure you guys already know this, but Nick just told me he saw something where you cut them from straight on, not from the side or something...we can talk more later. Yick.
He has a good mama and papa! You guys are so innovative...maybe you should design pet bandages.
Post a Comment