dog breeds with pink noses

hi i'm dr. adrienne mulligan of camp verdeveterinary clinic in arizona and i'm here today to talk to you about broken toenailson behalf of expertvillage.com. so now lets say that your dog comes home limping or maybeyour notice that he is paying extra attention to a toe and he is licking his toe and oneway that you could actually notice that is that his toe may be brown and you would thinkthat it is blood and may not be blood. it might be saliva. saliva stains like blood.so if he is really paying attention to a toe and making it turn brown you should have alook at it. now if you look at that toe and he may not want you to because it hurts thattoenail may be broken and it may be dangling. what happen is that actual toenail breaksof there quick which is the pink part in his

toes and that would actually would be danglingto the point to where it gets caught on things and it is painful. so the object is to tryto get it off so it is not dangling and getting injure more if you can but, remember thatthis is very painful. so the first thing you are going to want to do with your dog is muzzlehim. everyone should have a muzzle for there dog in a emergency. but, for short nose breedsmuzzles are not always the most effective thing because of the shape of there face.so having a least a elizabethan collar around can help protect you as well and help herto help him. at least this way you are protected from him if he tries to bite you. don't dothat we are going to put it all the way. so what i'm going to show you is you want totake a little pair of any kind of scissors

sharp sharps. if you can even without dogswithout broken toenails don't really like it but, if you can snip away anything thatis hanging and dangling. then you are going to want to try to stop the bleeding if youhave styptic powder in your kit and then you can use that otherwise you could use basicflour that you would use to bake a cake. pack that toenail so it stops the bleeding andthen put some antibiotic ointment in with it and then you are gong to want to applya bandage so you are going to want to use a telfa pad that you keep in your first aidkit and some vet wrap to make a little bandage. you basically want to put a little bit ofpressure but not to much pressure you don't want it to tight but you want to make enoughpressure around that toe. all around the end

of it to. that is going to be a little painful.then you could put a little further protection by putting a sock on it and use any kind ofsock. sock out of you drawer and any kind of tape any stick not to tight just put itat the top of the sock so it stays up and then my advice to you is to go ahead and leavethe elizabethan collar on so he won't get this off until you get to the vet. the waythat you leave the elizabethan collar is to use something you could use his collar orany type of tying material going through the little belt loops of the elizabethan collaruntil you could tie it around his neck nice and snug so he could not pull it off of hisand then call your vet and head to the vet to get that further taken care of.