This is not my week for animals!
I've just noticed that our older dog is licking at her front paws a fair bit. I've had a look, and the highest pads (the ones where her leg bends at the wrist, not the ones that touch the ground) have cracked - nothing particularly new there, she's always had dry pads - but this time they're actually peeling, and quite badly. The right one is particularly bad, it's as thought the whole top layer of it has peeled off (it's still hanging on, so is now like a flap about 1 or 2 mm thick), and underneath looks raw blacky-pink and very 'wet'. The left one looks like it's going the same way, although hasn't actually peeled yet and is just a deep crack that looks quite raw. I'm not doing a very good job of describing it - icky pic of her right one here (not very good quality, sorry).
What can I do for her? We're at the vets on Monday night with the cats, so I can take her along if need be (or call the emergency vet today if I need to - don't want them to get infected). I've got tea tree healing balm for the pup's wounds but I don't want to use anything that would sting her as they look so raw - I've also got some aloe vera vaseline which I could put on, and then wrap her wrists with vet wrap - would this help or hinder? I'm not sure whether I should leave them open to the air so they toughen up, or cover them to stop her licking. I'm a bit worried about this flap getting ripped off and causing more damage, as it's just dangling (but still attached a fair bit)
Her other pads are fine, and she seems OK in herself apart from these pads obviously hurting her - if I hadn't seen her licking, I wouldn't have known there was anything wrong.