Millie has a sore paw

[fortifiedwithtea]

I need 70 to channel her podiatry skills from humans to pigs.

Millie going into boarding in 3 days times. Took her out to the garden and inspected her feet. The silly pig has stood on a pooh and its dried on. This has blistered her foot and broken the skin. I got a damp kitchen roll and wiped all traces of poo off her feet including between her toes, she protested a lot. Millie is on grass in the run .

What first aid will be the most effective. I want to avoid a full blown case of bumble foot.

TIA

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Poor Millie - (though TBF my Podiatry skills cut no ice with my cavies and most - not all but most- of my patients don't try to attack me. I've had my moments though)

Probably warm salted water to soften and cleanse then something to moisturise (something that won;t harm if she licks her paw? I use Gorgeous Guineas Calendula but at a pinch I'd use vegetable oil lightly rubbed in)

You might need a couple of treatments to get best effect.

About a month before GP4 died I thought she had crusted pooh on her leg, turned out to be a new proper claw, like a dogs' dew claw, on the outer side of her ankle. Thankfully we didn't pull at it and I was really "Whoa" cutting it because I didn't know where the quick was.

[fortifiedwithtea]

After hours on the grass, Millie has created a pooh mountain that she walked through again as I leaned in to get her. Great clump of pooh stuck between her toes. I was not happy and Millie was ticked off as I got to work with wet kitchen roll again. Arrgh!!!

[FernieB]

Just think how bored you would have been if Millie hadn't made a mess of herself again. It's not as if you had anything else to do and you clearly love washing her paws . Actually it was very selfless of Millie to sacrifice her paws just for your weekend entertainment.

[fortifiedwithtea]

@ Fernie

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

My piggies haven't grazed yet (so they're all )
Is there any chance of grit or similar getting caught up in the pooh mix and causing injury?

[fortifiedwithtea]

70 Millie doesn't move round her hutch much, I put that down the huge lump on her bum and massive amounts of fluid retention. Honestly she looks like a furry water bomb.

My guess is she has stood on a pooh for hours and the effect is the same as nappy rash.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

We have a photo of Bert last summer standing on the wooden bar at the edge of the wooden sun house (IRL a chest of drawers carcass with all the drawers and support bits taken out)
He has pooh between his toes and is looking longingly at a solitary dropping beside him.
"Ooh I have shit between my feet, possibly not even mine, and there's another to stamp in".......good job he's neutered.

[FernieB]

Hope Millie's feet are okay.

Mine haven't been out yet either and Ginger can't wait. Madam has never (to the best of my/the rescues knowledge) been outside before so I've been harvesting grass to build her up for the lawn mowing season. The first time I gave her a small pile of grass, she sniffed at it cautiously and ran away. Only the sight of Ginger munching happily could entice her to give it a try. Now she's realised it's the fresher version of hay, she's a convert.