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| Treacodactyl |
Dog first aid kitDoes anyone know if you can get such a thing in the UK and what sort of things it should contain? Currently our mutt has chewed her paw and I'd like to put something antiseptic on that would also put her off chewing, but it must obviously be something safe for dogs.I have tried putting a sock over the paw but it confused her as she went a bit mad looking for her lost paw.  
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| Jamanda |
Vicks stops them chewing skirting boards etc, I suppose if there was an impermeable layer between the wound and that it might help. It'd smart like heck if it got through though.
What about that stuff you can buy to stop children biting their nails? |
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| Bebo |
Re: Dog first aid kit
Chocolate labs aren't the sharpest tools in the box are they (she says from experience) They make up for their daftness by being gorgeous in other ways though.
Ours has just managed to tear one of her nails off right at the skin. It was hanging half off and we had to get the vet to finish the job for her. He's just told us to bathe it in salt water to help it heal. Not sure if that's any use in your case? |
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| alice |
My JRT started chewing her paw last year - as if something had bitten/irritated her, but we couldn't find anything. We kept an eye on her and tried distracting her from chewing - the vet gave us an antiseptic cream which made us feel better but didn't do much for the foot Eventually she lost interest and moved on, it healed perfectly....now she's worrying us with a pulled cruciate ligament...my next pet is going to be a stick insect
I tried the sock thing - I've never seen her so confused - foot? sock? sock? foot? I think she's still having nightmares about it. |
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| Nanny |
there is a spray that stops them in their tracks, bitter alum it is made of.....stopped our animals from chewing furniture and tails and paws etc
there is also a boot you can buy in various sizes at larger pet stores...it ties on like a trainer ....i have used it once or twice and it worked on the greyhounds when they cut their pads but when it gets wet it gets a bit...uncomfortable and flaps around if not tied on well enough |
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| Green Rosie |
It's called Bitter Bite and we got ours from Battersea's Dog Home. It's not an antiseptic but you could spray around the covered wound to stop her chewing it. It stops our mutt eating all the kitchen furniture
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| Treacodactyl |
If it was a simple matter of cleaning up a minor wound I'd used some salty water however mutty seems to like salt (took her to the beach for the fist time a week back and she decided to 'eat' the waves ) so she'd be even worse.
We have a bittering spray although it didn't stop her chewing plaster off the walls... But I'm after something a cream or something designed for dogs that we can use and take with us. Looks like tonight will be another night on the bed so we can keep an eye on her. Tomorrow I'll try and resist going down the local park with a bag of spare socks and a pocket of dog treats. 
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| Green Rosie |
Good Luck  Hope she's better soon
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| alice |
I've just been and checked, ours was given Fuciderm Gel, which now I've googled it isn't an antiseptic, it is 'a combination of fusidic acid (an antibiotic) and betamethasone valerate (a corticosteroid with anti-inflammatory and anti-itch properties).'
It says 
Needs a prescription though. |
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| Dogwalker |
Sudocrem works on most things, but stopping her licking her foot would help most.
Have you tried covering with a thin stretchy cotton bandage then that self sticky bandage. Can't remember what either are called. the self stick ones are what the vets use, they're usually purple or pink not boring colours, careful how tight you put it on though. just found this, scroll down to cuts and grazes.Hope it helps http://www.irishwolfhounds-wales.eu/first_aid.htm |
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| Calli |
Purple spray? 
Or turquoise as my current vet prescribed spray is....and purple would look sooo much better with black hounds....
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| bring me sunshine |
Up until Sunday I would have suggested Purple Spray but my Lab was (accidentally) bitten by a lunatic chocolate Lab when they were playing Fetch in the river. Out came the spray and once I'd pinned her down for long enough, her foot was well as truly sprayed (as was my hand). The bite's clean and is healing nicely but the reason I *wouldn't* recommend Purple Spray, especially not in this particular case, is because my Darling Dufus licked all the spray off I did the pig several weeks ago and his shoulder has now faded to light lilac but you wouldn't know she'd ever been near the stuff...
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| Nick |
The alternative is one of those buster collars, which stops them getting at anything. They look stupid tho, especially when they KEEP walking into door ways. | ||||
| yummersetter |
a dab of perfume, the more expensive the better, sometimes works. Just up from the wound. They think it smells so vile they won't put their nose anywhere near. No nose=no licking
A pet first aid kit would be a brilliant vet surgery moneyspinner, don't think I've ever seen one there, though |
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| judith |
When Jif came back from surgery, the vet said she wouldn't bother using one of those as it would depress him too much. He would heal much better if he were happy and moving about normally. Which proved the case. That said, Jif is a dog who would rather eat meat deliverypersons than his own flesh.
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| Treacodactyl |
We had one of those plastic funnel type collars when our dog was spayed. Our lab definitely walked into everything on purpose to brake the thing, she walks through the middle of doors but when you put the collar on she walked right next to the doorway with a "whoops, bash". Apparently you can get some form of inflatable round collar which we might try.
I'll try the perfume idea as she definitely homes in on the bad paw by sniffing about. I had also thought about the purple spray but a bit of googling suggests only certain types of antiseptic should be used for dogs. I'll have a good read of some when I next go down the agri merchants. Thanks for all the comments. |
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| ros |
This sort of thing?
dog first aid kit saw this whilst window shopping for puppy stuff (on the 15 day countdown to a baby ESS arriving to add chaos to our household )
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| Treacodactyl |
It's a start, thanks, but apart from the "Plastic Pouches - to cover foot injuries and help keep them clean" it doesn't seem to contain anything different to a human kit - useful to know though. Actually I need to get some pods of saline for my own med kit. | ||||
| Treacodactyl |
And I've just remembered this from BASC: http://www.basc.org.uk/en/departments/gundogs/firstaid-in-the-field.cfm
This is what I'm after: "A mild antiseptic solution is also good, dilute Savlon you may have at home, or some others such as Hibiscrub will be available from the vets." |
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| Angel |
http://domestikgoddess.com/sew-your-own-winter-dog-boots/
This might come in handy, i made one for my pup when she had stitches. They stay on fairly well. 
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| otatop |
Just to add that, in my experience, labradors will eat ANYTHING. (I tried leaving chilli sandwiches around to teach Colin not to steal food .... and mustard smeared over cupboard door handles didn't deter him either). Labs are pretty bright - the "lampshade" seems to me to be the best bet to stop the chewing - she''ll soon learn to navigate doors. | ||||
| wellington womble |
The sticks to itself stuff is called vetwrap or coban tape. Make sure you don't put it on too tight (Ben had a very fetching pink one)
We just tell ours 'No' and usually they get the message and it heals. I can lend you a dog wellie (used to keep said fetching pink bandage dry) but it only covers the actual paw, so if the wound is further up, it won't help much. We also try to keep ours really tired. Helps no end with behavioural issues if the dog is too worn out from fun stuff to do anything but sleep. New stuff wears put their brain cells quicker than physical activities, so different walks and new games will help. Good luck (keep you fit, too!) |
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| bernie-woman |
Looks like the dogs cunning plan is working then if it is able to get to sleep with two nice warm hot water bottles - have you considered Baldrick as a name
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| Treacodactyl |
That's the problem, being intelligent, when it suits her of course, she walks into things in order to destroy the lampshade. She does indeed lover her food, the worst thing to date is 1kg of dark brown sugar. At least it didn't stay down long. At the moment I've having to ensure she doesn't eat the various poisonous berries that are about.
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| Treacodactyl |
That looks very useful, I'll point Bugs, my sewing OH, at it. Hopefully the paw is recovering but it'll be good to be prepared for future mishaps. I'd wondered about the dog wellies you see on the police and fire brigade labs. Mmm, having seen our dog think her paw disappeared when I put a sock on I wonder if those dogs with four booties on think they're actually hovering? It would explain their happy faces. |
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| Treacodactyl |
Thanks for the offer WW but we shouldn't need it. We've also tried a very firm No it doesn't seem to work. As bernie says, I wonder our mutt is doing it on purpose to stay on the bed. 
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| otatop |
Labradors are great though, aren't they. I can dine out on tales of Colin's outragous theft and greed - Macavity the Mystery Cat has nothing on Colin. There were the incidents of the Christmas cakes, the curry paste (with no sign of toothmarks on the jar lid), the eggs (he must have stacked chairs in order to reach them) - and the indoor fireworks!! Enough said! The cake episodes left him as tight as a drum and P****d as a f**t, but the only time he ever had a tummy ache was when he ate a bag of conkers that he found in my son's bedroom. He's an elderly gent now - approaching twelve - but he still remembers every place in the park where he's found the remains of a picnic - and what he now lacks in speed he has gained in cunning! |
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| Treacodactyl |
Luckily ours was sick after eating all that sugar and within five minutes was hunting round looking for food again. She can be a lovely girl, when she's not being naughty or ill.
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| bring me sunshine |
Food-wise mine has (generally) behaved herself but let's not mention the leather armchair, the sofa, the not one, not two but three multiplugs, the sofa (round 2), the brand new roll of binbags, the empty bottle of toilet cleaner, the sofa (3rd and final round), plus numerous other items I've thankfully forgotten.
Fingers crossed, she's grown out of that phase though has an annoying new habit, where she knocks over the bathroom bin and scatters the contents everywhere. Not good at certain times of the month Mind you, that could be the cats. One managed to drop a new roll of loo paper in the toilet 
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| wellington womble |
One of ours ate a lipstick, and gave us a fright (we thought he was bleeding!) the other had a thing for pinching my bras off the radiators, and chewing the straps. I suspect them of jointly burying my sunglasses in a large pot in the garden. | ||||
| yummersetter |
just diverting ' Dear Dog . . ' to setters. My first used to pinch my bras from the bedroom floor, run out into the garden with them and toss them over the wall into the gay vicar's back garden. He was very good, though tardy, about coming round and handing them back - we even met in the street once and he gave me one I hadn't realised was missing
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| judith |
There is a whole bedroom farce waiting to be written based on that scenario! |