Can a pad be stitched??

[kibob]

Ok, just got back from walking the dogs and Ki has cut his leg and pad (chasing a cat through the hedge

).

Now, he's cut his pads plenty of times before (the dog has zero self-preservation!) but before he has more skinned the pad, therefore there is nothing to stich. However, this time he has sliced it and it looks to me like it could be stitched, but don't know whether vets would do this due to the nature of the area

He is currently sporting blue vet wrap and gaffa tape and is not very amused.

Any advice please, thanks guys

 

[showjumpinglover]

i don't think it can be stitched. might be worth ringing your vets and ask them

 

[huggz]

It would be glued rather than stitched.

 

[deja224]

my terrier cut his pad on a chain saw and they stitched it and glued part of it

 

[CAYLA]

They can stitch, but it's a difficult area to stitch and they would generally like to stitch it asap, I had a dog that sliced right through the pad, it was pumping of blood, I stapled and bandaged as u have, depending on how it looks when they remove dressing and how well it's nipped and if it starts to bleed, they may well just have u back for repetative dressing, which it what I did, but just did the dressing myself and let the vet check it every 3 days, mind u the dog I had was a boxer

(one of my boarders) and she was a bugger, she has to have a hood on (elizabethan collar) for the whole 3 weeks.
The worst thing that can happen is they get to it whilst it's healing or it gets infected, your vet will probably put him on anit b's.
A part of her pad sluffed off, but all in all it healed fantastically

just took some time as pads do.
Was there alot of blood?

Advice....keep him off it, keep it clean and keep bandage dry, use a poo bag when he goes out to cover the bandage and put a sock over the bandage to lessen the chance of him licking at the bandage.

 

[avthechav]

Thats bad news, poor dog- Our dog sliced her paw and had three very neat stitches in it. The main problem was keeping in clean but it sounds like you are on top of that. The cut itself healed fairly quickly but it took a very long time for the tough pad skin stuff to form over the top. She wasn't particularly sensitive on it once the cut had healed and my dog is a huge wimp!

 

[RLD]

My dog had a nasty slice on one of his pads. The vet did stitch it but it didn't hold. It was just a case of keeping it dressed until it healed.

 

[kibob]

Thankyou everyone for your replies.

Decided to take him to the vets after all as, although he left the bandage alone, little puppy monster was intent on removing them whenever my back was turned

He has been stapled back together - 4 in his pad and a couple in the little cut on his leg. They say it is pot luck really as to how well it heals as pads are notoriously difficult to heal. Got to take him back in 3 days to have dressing changed and wound checked, if it isn't binding together then they will just slice the loose bit off and we will just need to keep bandaging until all has healed.

Why do animals never injure themselves in an easy-to-get-to area

Have just finished two weeks of poulticing an absess on one of my horses!! Also, I am convinced there is a conspiracy theory going on - they never require veterinary treatment during normal working hours - always on a Sunday or Bank Holiday

So this mornings walk ended up costing me £115

So proud of him though cos he didn't need to be sedated, he just hid his head behind mum

 

[CAYLA]

Im glad he is ok....u are right re the out of hours...it always happens then

.....luckily thats my perk of working at the vets...no big bills, my total bill would have been over £450 for the boxer.....it ended in a tiny fraction of that, I did save on all the dressing though, which are about £16 a shot, and she went through about 30

but I do cringe for others

I too pinned the boxer down for the stapling...hell it's a dog, they are hard

 

[kibob]

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I too pinned the boxer down for the stapling...hell it's a dog, they are hard

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hehe, it was a bit like wrestling a bear, but once I had him he didn't move - bless

Thanks Cala, he's adoring all the attention now, and has perfected his sad eyes and ears "feel sorry for me" look

 

[kibob]

Forgot to say ... after discovering the price of vets fees, my daughter is now convinced she wants to be a vet. Something I will encourage wholeheartedly

x

 

[CAYLA]

Push her forth...it will come in very handy

lol...he is gonna squeeze u or every last treat and ounce of affection u have to give

 

[brightmount]

My dog split her pad, we think it was probably on barbed wire when out for a walk. The vet stapled it in about 4 places. She was a big wimp about it. The staples did hold until it healed, though she had to go back several times for the dressing to be changed, and we changed it at home a few times.

Here's a piccy of the wounded soldier:

The vet gave us a drip bag with tape threaded round the top to put on the bandage when she went outside as you really have to keep it dry. It didn't work that well. I have since found out you can buy dog boots which would have been much better.

(Kibob - my daughter is going to be a vet, she is going to RVC, woo-hoo... could save a bit in the long term!)

 

[star]

i just pinned my boxer down to staple her pad conscious - i wasn't about to pay for a GA for a few staples. we do often stitch pads though and usually leave in for 2wks rather than normal 10days for other wounds. i'd say most of them heal quite well if stitched soon after the wound occurs.

 

[kibob]

Awwww, bless her.

I think Ki did it on barbed wire too (horrible stuff

). I can see we are going to have a problem keeping it dry - todays mission is to come up with some sort of Doggy Wellie type thing - this was this mornings attempt

:-

... it didn't work for long

 

[CAYLA]

LMAO......are those your shoes

and u made the dog wear em

 

[Bess]

If you do decide to buy dog boots to help keep the feet dry then have a feel about inside them before you put them on the dog.

My lab sliced a big bit off her paw, and it was all bandaged up like yours is so I bought a boot for her but inside the boot was a big hard thick circle of cardboard which would have been very bad for the healing cut because her foot would have been off one edge of it.

 

[kibob]

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LMAO......are those your shoes

and u made the dog wear em

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PMSL,,, no, not my shoes, they're my daughters' (honest

),,,do you not think Ki looks impressed with his blue crocs then?

 

[kibob]

Ah, thats good advice thank-you. Hopefully won't need to buy any boots will have to wait and see how things go. Have resorted to a good old Tescos bag for now

 

[foxviewstud]

be careful if you do use dog boots, i used them on my collie when he had stitches in his side as he kept clawing them out, his foot really stank when it came off (he only had on when we where not around to keep eye on him which was not a lot of time) and his foot would swell right up with the heat, have never used one since.