A cut pad

[Hound of the Sea]

Murphy cut his pad on the beach yesterday. He can walk on it okay and it seems clean but is there anything I can put on it other than salt water to help prevent infection?

 

[ChesnutsRoasting]

I use either salt water or diluted hibiscrub. If the cut is quite deep I bandage the entire foot and check and change it daily, until a decent amount of healing has taken place - normally a few days. Bandaging helps keep dirt out and also prevents the wound re-opening. When the cut is really deep, some vets like to stitch, but I have never found this to be successful.

 

[Hound of the Sea]

Thanks for that Blazingsaddles. I have no Hibiscrub but Davisn is dropping some off for me. I think I might bandage it as it has opened up a bit.

 

[ThePinkPony]

I dont bandage ours as dogs would have a fit and end up chewing their own paws off.

Can you get hold of some steri strips? They are a life saver for deep split pads in the season, little bit of savlon and closed with a coupe of strips and should be fine.

 

[Bettyboo222]

We cut the brown bit of plasters into steri strips

 

[CorvusCorax]

I dunk the pad in an old Chinese tray full of diluted salt water or diluted Savlon/Dettol, we don't bandage, just rest.

 

[Hound of the Sea]

Many thanks for all the advice. We felt a bit panicked as Murphy is our first dog and it was his first injury. We did bandage after cleaning it and putting savlon on and surprisingly he didn't try to chew it off. Today it is looking much better and he is no longer limping.