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Well guess who's limping again?

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saltire · 11/10/2008 14:27

What is it with this puppy?
Today I noticed he was very gingerly puttingweight on his paw, after he came in from garden, and was licking the pad of the foot a lot. Then he started carrying paw. I took him out ont eh grass for a wee walk, and he was walking fine, occasionally carrying it, but mostly walking on it. He's carrying it again a bit now and licking the apd constantly.
Now this morning he ahd only been int eh garden. He didn't fall or trip

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expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 14:28

how old is he?

is he a pedigree?

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saltire · 11/10/2008 14:31

He's only 8 months old, and is a border Collie from a farm. He broke this paw away back int eh summer, had almost 3 months with pins in it attached to a frame. I think he maybe banged the pad bit, but it's never ending with this dog. he ate a wasp once which caused his mouth to swell. He eats the skirting boards and scrapes the paint off the walls and eats it. He eats all his toys and then poos red rubber.
I think I'll take him back for a refund

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hauntinghippoami · 11/10/2008 14:31

If it started after he came in from the garden, and he is licking it a lot, then more likely than not he has stepped on something. Have you checked he has not got a tiny twig/stone/thorn stuck inbetween his pads or digits?
(sorry if I am pointing out the obvious and you ahve already done this)

expatinscotland · 11/10/2008 14:32

oh dear, salty!

DD1 would love a collie dog, too.

they're very popular round this neck of the woods, for obvious reasons.

hauntinghippoami · 11/10/2008 14:34

Ah okay, he has broken this paw once before? He may have landed on it awkwardly and re-injured it?
Is he still limping?

Pups are such hard work - I vividly remember the time our cocker spaniel pup ate some balloons, then tried to poo and ended up with a bright orange de-flated balloon dangling from his rear end
Or the time he had eaten dd's crayons and produced pretty multicoloured stools
And the plaster is still missing where he chewed it off the kitchen wall, he chewed through the Xmas tree lights giving himself a shock, my slipper has a hole at the big toe, the dining chair legs have teethmarks.....
I sympathise

Hope you get to the bottom of the paw injury and he feels better soon.

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saltire · 11/10/2008 14:36

I think he probably has got something stuck, he was diggin up all teh wood chips again and eating them, plus he puts his paws on teh wall so he can see over into next door. I tried looking between them and when I came to teh end ones he pulled away and growled at me!
The paw he is limping on is the one wheich he broke and had the £3,00 vets bill, I jsut worry he has done something to it again

Expat - they are great dogsa, we had 2 previosuly, lived to 16 and 14 years. This one is great behaviour wise when he is out, its the constant eating things thats driving me nuts.

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saltire · 11/10/2008 14:38

awful typing in that last post.

You should see the plaster in teh cupboard which he sleeps in, I ahve a picture on my profile of the damage he has done to the walls.

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saltire · 12/10/2008 09:59

Very odd, yesterday afternoon and evening we had no sign of a limp from him. He walked and ran around as normal.
This morning DS2 lets him in teh garden, he goes out, and when eh comes back in again he is limping again, and licking at the pad of his foot, not the top bit where he broke it, but the pad. DS2 thinks he slipped when he ran upstairs (the dog , not DS2), but when I ahd him out he was walking fine on the grass, but limping on the concrete and o the hard floor in the house
Exact same scenario as yesterday morning - goes outside and comes back in limping!

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saltire · 12/10/2008 11:19

I think a trip to vets is in order, he is still carrying the paw. He is fine if we touch the top bit - the bit he broke a couple of months ago, but pulls away if we try to touch the pad of the paw

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bella29 · 12/10/2008 11:26

Good luck, Saltire

differentWitch · 12/10/2008 11:34

could be his pads are a bit sensitive to the hard surfaces since the pins?
God luck

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saltire · 12/10/2008 11:41

Have jsut watched him in the garden and he was using the "sore" paw to play with something, he was suing it to bring hthe toy towards him and was walking fine ont eh grass.
Thing is the pins were taken out about 4/5 weeks ago, and he has been fine since. He isn't yelping or whining at all, even if we touch the paw, he pulls it away, but doens't yelp. I was getting really worried that he had broken it agian but as DH said, he would have let us know, he hadn't fallen over, and didn't whine out or yelp, so it can't be that.

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differentWitch · 12/10/2008 11:43

are his pads scarred at all?

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saltire · 12/10/2008 11:46

There is no sign of anything on his pads. This is why I wondered if he had done something to the bone he broke.
There is no swelling at all, the whole paw looks the same as it always has,

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differentWitch · 12/10/2008 11:48

he could be trying it on. Mine was awful for faking at the same stage- he's about 6 months now?

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saltire · 12/10/2008 11:59

He's 9 months now.
I don't know if he is faking it, that's the point. When he is sitting, he lifts the paw, and when he is standing he is lifting the paw.
I jsut cannot see anything on the paw that could be causing it, and as DH said, we would know if he had broken it
DH wondered if we should give him a Rimadyl, we have a couple left over, but I said no.

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differentWitch · 12/10/2008 12:03

Rimadyl being the painkiller? I'd take him up to the vet's tomorrow just for a check up- there probably isn't anything wong with him, but it will mean you can relax a bit. Does he get extra fuss made of him when he does lift the paw? It's likely he has associated paw lifting with sympathy and fuss. My own Border collie did that when she had hurt her shoulder at 4 months. Soon outgrew it when we fussed her for not doing it- or made it into a trick. She learnt how to shake paws very quickly.

bella29 · 12/10/2008 12:06

I wouldn't give him any Rimadyl if you're planning on going to the vets, as it may just mask his symptoms. Probably best to get him checked out because he's been having quite a lot of trouble with this paw since it healed, hasn't he?
All the best anyway

Bella

Lovesdogsandcats · 12/10/2008 12:54

er, why is your dog sleeping in a cupboard?

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saltire · 12/10/2008 13:46

It's not a cupboard like a kitchen one. it is quite large, a walk in one, which connects the house to the garage. I don't see what's wrong with it

I have just taken him out for a walk. He limped on the concrete. Then I took him into teh field we go to and he was fine on the grass, limped a bit to start off with then walked normally, but if he walked on the bit of the feild with the cut crop i.e sticky up bits of dried crop, he limped again. He was did tyr running fast a couple of times but pulled himself up and furiously licked the paw, but then started walking normally again. A couple of times he would run slowly, and was fine. Coming home again he was wlaking fine, but limped a bit ont eh concrete!

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bella29 · 12/10/2008 14:58

Limping on hard or uneven surfaces (eg the stubble - that's what we country bumpkins call the cut crop, btw!) is suggestive of pain in the lower limb or paw.

Would definitely get him checked out. Did they x-ray him after removing the pins?

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saltire · 12/10/2008 15:57

It's very odd, can't think what's wrong. He has had a longish sleep after his walk, and is now quite happily walking aorund on it, no sign of anything wrong with it

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