Gyppie putting on her "feel sorry for me" face.
I am feeling a lot of relief today. Gyp's pad has made a super quick recovery. Looks like we are on track for the 2 week mark in healing, Thursday will be 2 weeks since the injury happened. Which leaves us 1 week to train before regionals. I'll take what I can get!
She did nothing for the first 5 days - no walks, no fetch (still no fetch at this point), she did get depressed, I am pretty sure she was picking up on my stress and sadness.
Day 4 (i was traumatized and didn't take a photo until then) you can see it was swollen and the gash was pretty deep
After the 5 days (still wearing a boot and vet wrapped foot), we started playing again (no fetch), going for short walks, practicing obedience etc.
At the 1 week mark we started flatwork (Shadowhandling), and going for longer walks. Her foot was still seeping a bit, but it is part of the healing process, so I was still changing her bandage 2 or 3 times a day.
On day 9 I noticed the biggest change in the healing (foot still wrapped) we did some end behaviours on the contacts and some low jumps practicing her distance and directionals. We also worked 3 weave poles. We only worked for about 5 minutes in total.
Today is day 12!
Things are looking up, I will start to New-Skin her pad in the next couple days, but today she is down to a bare paw in the house, and just a light wrapped paw when we go out today. I want to let it heal and toughen up on its own, and I am still being careful.
We are going to Agility class tonight, and I have a specific list to work on. Now that her pad is getting better, and I am not SO stressed about that.
... now I can start to stress about running my dogs at Regionals, in 10 days GULP :)
Day 12, the pad is back to a normal colour, and the gash has almost filled in (pads grow from the inside out)
Did someone say K-I-T-T-Y?
.... Um no Gyp, I said A-G-I-L-I-T-Y!
(thanks everyone for all of the well wishes and happy healing thoughts for Gyppie, I really believe it helped)
6 comments:
the foot looks great!!! i told you so.
Yay Gyppie!!
Good luck in the regionals :)
Amanda, i know, I know
you were RIGHT, but only this once.
What a FACE. Too adorable for words!
now that I see the cut I have to agree with you Sarah, I would have stressed too.....looks soooo much better now, I'm happy for you!!
That's the best kind of news. Take ten deep breathes! You're going to do great; the both of you.
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