Took River and Weller swimming today, got ready to pack it up and blood everywhere.  River sliced in between his pads...pretty good gash.  Off to the vet...could do stitches, but thinks Riv would likely chew them out.  Wrapped it good and gave us antibiotic, and wants low activity.  Any ideas?  I was going to dump a bucket of EMT gel when we have to dress it again, but there is no keeping this dog still.  Hoping for a quick recovery.

Thanks for the replies...it isn't actually on his foot, rather on the underside of his upper pad below his elbow (there's probably a proper name for this).  Doing a bit better today, but he is relentless with ball chasing, cat chasing, welller chasing, fly chasing, butterfly chasing...etc....  We have it wrapped up pretty good and will dress it once a day and keep hitting it with the emt.