I feel so bad.
I knocked a glass off the worktop and my poor mini poodle pup (14 weeks) was right underneath. The glass shattered everywhere. She was covered in tiny bits of glass. So I picked her up carefully and held her gently on me in the bath while dh carefully showered it all off.
There was no blood we could see.
When I dried her with a white towel I could see a tiny bit of pink blood when I dabbed her tail. So we assumed she had a small cut there. It wasn't even bright red blood. After feeling it more it felt a little swollen about an inch from the tip of her tail so I think that actually the glass landed on her tail before it shattered. But she was wagging her tail half an hour later.
She held her tail funny and for a day we left her to it as she was totally fine in herself. Playing like a zoomy demon with my older dog, eating, sleeping etc. She still held it funny and would yelp when she accidentally sat on it.
So I got her to the vets. She shaved it and said she thinks it could be broken but that an x ray to confirm that is pointless at this stage as it wouldn't change how she will treat it anyway. She also found a little wound that looked slightly pink and swollen and said her temperature was slightly high so gave her an antibiotic jab and anti inflammatory jab.
Today she's still zoomy and eating and sleeping fine. But I think her tail looks a little more swollen and pink. Keeping her off it is so hard and we have rotated obs duties all day so she doesn't get to her tail. She's escaped 2 different cones and I've got a different one coming tomorrow.
She has the vets in the morning. But I'm just worried that she will get poorly from an infection. If it doesn't clear up at what point is taking the end of her tail off an option?
Obviously I'll talk to the vets about this tomorrow but I'm feeling so guilty about it I can't stop thinking about it!