Barbed wire cut

[Dheff 6]

Well the inevitable happened today.

 

Holly had her first skin tear from barbed wire.

 

Had no chance of seeing it, barbed wire along the ground completely covered with leaves in a wooded area.

 

Anyway I have cleaned the area with saline solution and re-read the chapter in running dog maintenance on how to deal with these.

 

 

From what I understand is should be OK to heal on it's self as it's just a small skin tear, taking 3 days to see a noticeable change and 7-10 days to start to heal and close up. Also that I need to bathe it daily with saline solution for a week then allow it to scab over. The tear isn't too long/big, just wondered what everybody else would do.

 

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I'm happy to leave it to heal naturally, but do have access to a stabler & remover and someone with experience to do it for me. So would you staple it, as it's near a moving joint.

 

Cheers

[BrianSteven72 369]

its not that bad i would just keep it clean and let it heal on its own

[Dheff 6]

Cheers Brian it's nice to have someone else's opinion

[troter58 1,711]

let heal mate its on the joint there if you staple it or glue it will open when the dog moves its leg atb troter

[hullhunter 219]

clean then put some purple spray on it and leave its only a scratch

[Dheff 6]

Cheers lads, appreciate your posts.

 

First running dog, so it's nice to have some re-assurance.

[Coneytrappr 30]

That will heal well by itself, should be almost gone in a week and a half. You shouldn't need to do much with it, dog will sort it out and keep it clean.

[iworkwhippets 12,970]

Had a tear on one of my dogs few weeks back, would make you heave, that wound is nowt to worry about, wash with warm salted water, once only, and leave, job done

[kevin from bristol 95]

its looks to small and not very deep for staples just keep it clean but by the looks of were it is she will do it her self my mates whippet cross scalped its entire head the other day had to pull the skin right back over her head and glue it was healed in two weeks she never made a sound from the time it happend tough bitch can hardly she it now

[paulus 26]

thats nothing to worry about clean daily with salt water, keep an eye out for infection when it scabs over, if you see signs of infection soak the scab off and flush with salt water. that will be healed up within a fortnight

[skycat 6,174]

Shouldn't get infected as the dog will be able to lick and clean it by itself. Dog saliva contains enzymes which break down the cell walls of bacteria. Don't stop the dog licking it.

[Romany 1,065]

Agree with Skycat, a good licking always works wonders....

[Dheff 6]

Brilliant, good news then. Thanks for all the replies,

 

its looks to small and not very deep for staples just keep it clean but by the looks of were it is she will do it her self my mates whippet cross scalped its entire head the other day had to pull the skin right back over her head and glue it was healed in two weeks she never made a sound from the time it happend tough bitch can hardly she it now

 

That sounds horrible, did your mate glue the bitch, not sure if I would ever feel that confident to do it myself