How would you treat a sore pad?

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My big female lab has a sore pad. It looks as though there is a blister or sore inbetween her pads. Its hard to say if there is anything in it, I don't think there is, I've had a good look with a torch, but she keeps licking it. She seems better walking on grass, but is sore on the chippings surface we have around the stables - another thing that suggests she has no splinter as she would be sore on both, don't you think? She has been licking it and licking it, so it is very pink.

I'm tempted to put some savlon on it and bandage it in dry animalintex and vetwrap. Quite loosely so she can walk on it , but to keep it clean for a few days and to stop her licking. Obviously if this doesn't work, we will get the vet to pop over.

Does this sound like a plan, or does anyone else have any suggestions? I'm trying to just let her out in the garden for pees etc rather than walking her with the other dog. She isn't v impressed.
 
When my dog has a sore pad I always know why as it is because he has cut it chasing something so I can't help with what the problem might be. I use a gamgee pad covered in vetwrap if I need to walk him in the wet before it is healed. I do not like to leave it on for long though as I think it is too tight, I also think fresh air aids healing. Maybe just use a thin sock taped around the top for indoor use if she will not stop licking. I would stop her walking at all if possible and just let her out to go to the loo. I have found this makes a huge difference to the time it takes for him to be sound again.
 
Mine has skinned or cut his a few times and managed to do all four recently (don't ask!!)
Might not be the most popular suggestion but I use an antiseptic 'spray plaster' (From Dettol, or Boots do an own brand) rest, only exercise on grass and let him get on with it. He usually bounces back really quickly. He'd just eat a cover off and I'd rather the air got at it. A spray antiseptic or plaster might also discourage the licking.
 
Old fashioned but we used to soak in a solution of Epsom salts, to draw out any pus, then protect with a bandage etc covered with an old sock.
 
Thanks all. Will try and keep her still for a few days and see how it goes. A spray on plaster may work well, I think she may chew other things. We will see. I think Epsom salts or some other poultice would be good too.

Wish I did know what she has done. I was away for six days and she was lame when I got home. Hubby and dad say she was sound at midday, so she must have cut it running for something in the field perhaps. We don't really have any hedges around for thorns.
 
It could be something as minor as a short stop/skid/sharp turn on short grass or stubble or on a yard/harder surface. Said the author of '101 Stupid Ways For Your Dog To Injure Himself'!!!
 
Islay, my oldest greyhound, managed to break a toe chasing after another dog on a perfectly flat surface.....and another toe chasing a hare across 2 fields, a stone wall and through a hedge.....luckily she is elderly and sedate now :D
 
Eeek Picklenash, sounds as though I'm doing well!

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. After 24hrs of resting and just wandering in the garden she is a lot better and has stopped licking, without having to cover it, so fingers crossed..
 
Good news, I thought I had totally broken mine last time as they were just little skinned bits and he was being very melodramatic and hopping everywhere, but he was right as rain in a few days!
 
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