Hi
I have two beautiful greyhounds, one girl and the other a boy. Fiddie a lazy dog but once out and about, he enjoys the fresh air and walking around, smelling every single leaf and blade of grass that in fact after 40 minutes you would think you had travelled quite a distance, but really only 1/4 to 1/2 mile - he is some dog.
Anyway, Fiddie unfortunately is a glass collector. Every 3 months or so, or that is how it is averaging out, he keeps standing on slithers of glass. Well, last Thursday he started limping and I checked his paws. I thought that possibly his nails were a little too long, so gave them a file. But then noticed a very small puncture wound on one of his pads and indeed when pressed, that was the area of pain and so reasonably, the cause for his limp. I got out my nail varnish and painted his nail so that the vet could easily recognise the tender area.
Visited the vet and she removed two wee pieces of gravel. She searched further, with Fiddie being really, really brave and stoic and then, thankfully with a sparkle in the light, out came a LARGE, diamond piece of green glass. The piece extracted was so big that the other vets came to view the offending article, along with a many student nurses, giving Fiddie the biggest of hugs!
I cannot believe how brave Fiddie was, with the vet saying if the piece hadn’t been spotted, he would have to go in for a general anaestetic.
The bandages are off and I am delighted to say that Fiddie is back to full health! I do put on a sock with a scrunchie so as to afford protection on this newly formed skin/ pad.
Please, please, please do be careful when walking your dogs - those ever so nasty slithers of glass left from broken (beer) bottles are in effect invisible to the naked eye and also to the hard-working street cleaners who work hard.
