Well, I guess it was inevitable.  I've been training with Katy for 18 months now and yesterday the odds caught up with us........

She was down running yesterday afternoon and she got caught on something- stick, ice not sure.  It wasn't barbed wire as this is the back 9 of a Private golf course we train on during the winter (I grew up with the head greenskeeper) and there isn't any of that stuff in the woods.

 Anyways...... a 450 yard walk back to my truck carrying her darn near killed me!  Then the 9 mile ride to my vet in rush hour traffic almost did my blood pressure in.  They had to put her under to sew this up- in the worst spot possible, inner right hind leg and then back up into the lower abdomen.  It's "V" shaped and looks really gnarly (not the "good" gnarly!)

Just got back from the vet today to change out the "wet-to-dry" gauze pack and figure out next steps.  Katy is on painkillers, antibiotics & dermamaxx (promotes skin healing).  On the positive side (if there is one), there's no orthopedic damage (she was walking around today on a leash) and the laceration was strictly of the epidermal layer- it didn't puncture her abdomen.  And the slice is pretty clean as was the wound when I brought her in.  They cleaned it out real well yesterday and said it was "very clean" today.

I slept downstairs with her last night to keep an eye on things- I slept like crap.  She finally ate, drank and pee'd this morning........ ate dinner and pooped when we got home tonight.

These are the chances we take every time we break our dogs away- it was what these dogs were born to do.......

Rob

Ouch.  Yes my Maple too did this, but like Bev's in the backyard at our house.  I was outside and the dogs were running around and under a trampoline.  This trampoline had U-bolts that protruded out.  She cut the corner really close and then pushed by the lab she was running with and had a cut from the top of her shoulder to her underside.  Like you my blood pressure was way up, but thankfully I did not have to carry her very far and the vet is only about 1/2 mile away.  Needless to say the trampoline was disassembled.  It was not even my trampoline, but rather someone who was living with us after Hurricane Katrina as their house had flooded in New Orleans.

Then later, this same dog, with the workers in the backyard because of so much damage at our house, she went through a plate glass window, almost cut her toe off and had lacerations on her stomach!  Oh, and that plate glass window was replaced too. 

Glad your pup is doing better and should heal up in no time.  After getting my Maple stitched up, she did really well too.

Thanks folks........... bandages were changed out last night at the Vets'.  Everything is still looking nice & clean- no sign of infection, good skin adhesion, a few more sutures put in and re-applied a wet-to-dry gauze pack over the open skin.  The vet didn't pull the skin taught as she didn't want to put that kind of "pull" on the sutures.  She told me the open skin will "granularize" and heal up just fine.

My wife reports that as of this morning, Katy is returning to her chipper, impish self.......... albeit with an elizabethian collar on!

She ate this morning, pooped last night & seems to be on the right path.  Thanks for all your kind thoughts.  Apparently, it was more stressful for me than I think it was for her!  I'm shutting her down for a month- nothing but walks on a 6 foot lead.

Rob

So sorry and hope Katy heals fast and tolerates with high GSP energy to keep it down low on the end of a 6 foot leash. Wish there was protective belly coat hunt wear for our GSPs who do not have much fur on the underneathe. Prayers for fast healing coming Katy's way!!