So yesterday morning Sierra was holding her hind leg up after we got up. I figured maybe she slept on it funny or Jack grabbed her leg when I was not looking. I went over to rub her leg and she made no noise and put her foot down and acted normal so I left it alone. We got home last night took them for a walk and all was still ok all though I kept an eye on her on our short walk as it started to rain on us and she did seem to be walking "light" on that foot. I went to the gym and like got home 2hrs later and she was holding her paw up again. Well I got on the ground and started looking at the leg and then noticed her toe looked red, got ken to hold her and the second I touched her toe she started crying and not letting me touch it. Well at 9pm I was not going for an after hr vet visit and called them for a morning apt. I drove across town to my dentist apt at 8:30 drove back home and got Sierra and went halfway back the way I just was to the vet. They looked her over and had to shave her toe to get a better look, Sierra was not happy and the vet tech had a lock hold on her on the metal table. The toe is not broken or fractured and the toe nail is ok. The vet thinks she might have pulled it or twisted it but she is walking on it. The other thought was maybe a thorn or picker or something poked her and is in the skin and that is causing the inflammation and redness. There was no blood or puss or anything gross like that. She got a shot of antibiotics that will last 2 weeks and some pain meds and we need to soak her foot in Epsom salt for a few days to help with it. I will keep you all posted on how she is recovering. Too bad to cause we were going to go for a hike this weekend and I just don't feel right leaving her and taking Jack or just leaving both cause they need the work out as much as i do.

¿Does she jump the garden fence too? At least it looks like something that should heal fairly quickly.

now that we have put up the chicken wire she does not jump it any more just Jack.
i think its a stuck pricker since we have them in the back yard. its funny cause Sierra is always the one getting hurt, Jack stays healthy.

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Aww, poor Sierra. Glad she's okay though, and here's hoping for a speedy recovery

Sorry to hear it. Hope that paw heals quickly!

well her paw is less red and she is getting these little black beads around the base of her nail, (maybe dried blood?), not sure what it is but I think it's getting better.

Glad to hear that! Hope it continues to heal each day.

Well here are some pictures just about a week later. it is still black around the nail and she seemd to lick it/bite it off last night to open the area back up, i just cant seem to see what the issure is but it is around the nail on the top/outside.

hope she gets to feeling better!

Do you have it wrapped normally? Almost looks like she's getting at it too much. I would cone her.

Vet told me not to wrap it cause I would not see if something was going on. I tried the sock thing for when she goes outside and it did not work well. don't think the cone will work in her crate either. I was at petco returning the rain coat and seen these temp booties that looks like weird water balloons to put on the feet, wonder if that would help, I think it would not let it breath.. should I just gauze it and wrap it with tape? put anything on the gauze?
http://www.petco.com/product/110625/PAWZ-Dog-Boots.aspx?CoreCat=OnSiteSearch

I guess it's tougher not being there all day. I would wrap it loosely with just a tiny bit of anti bacterial ointment and change it at least daily giving it some time to "breathe". But I think she'll chew through anything around her foot while she's in her crate. Still, it's hard to tell from pictures. Foot things always take a bit longer to heal in my experience. Try calling the vet and describing what you see and ask if there's specific things you should be looking for. To me it looks like it's trying to scab and the light pinkish tone looks like she's constantly licking it.

i was thinking of calling them, im still soaking the foot 2-3 times a day as well. she is licking it and we try to stop her. we need to get it better, she is not holding her foot up anymore so i don't think there is any pain now. i only did her pain killers for 2 days i hated how she was acting on them.

Wish I could help. but have never seen anything like this before. Doesn't seem the vet is too concerned tho....Geesh...there doesn't seem to be pain, you said, yet she's definitely getting at it. I'd try the vet again.
I know what you mean about the pain meds..after Isis' surgery, whatever it was they gave us for her wiped her out! Didn't like it, so called the vet, and they said we could just give her the Rimadyl we had from Mika's surgery. Only good I see in medicating a dog is that if they're loopy, they tend not to bug the surgery/injury site, cause they're too sleepy!
Again, I wish you luck!

I have no idea. When the dogs hurt their paws though, we do what Eddy said: a little bit of neosporin, a sock, and a hair band or two around the leg (not cutting off the circulation) to keep the sock on. You know... since you can't watch her in the crate during the day, what about doing the sock thing when you're around and letting it air when she's in the crate? Those temp booties are good for outside (so as not to make it worse) but I wouldn't leave something like that on in the crate unsupervised. That can cause some serious intestinal problems if chewed and ingested.