Last week, my Jack Russell got pretty torn up in a buy prescription drugs target=”_blank”>dog fight, most of his cuts and bruises have healed up pretty nicely. Except one on the back of his neck, our littlest dog will NOT leave it alone. Woobie just keeps picking and picking at Jack’s cut, and I fear it’ll never heal.
Jack looking quite dapper in his red kerchief!
At a loss for what to do to keep him away from it, my husband’s solution this morning when he called was to tie something around Jack’s neck to keep the other dogs from picking at it. So I tried: I tied one of my husband’s old bandannas around his neck. He doesn’t seem to mind it, and had not picked at it at all – But it hasn’t stopped Woobie from trying to lick his neck, he just slides it down far enough to get at the cut.
I’m running out of ideas here. I can’t constantly carry Jack around with me, he’s too dang heavy and squirmy. And I can’t keep them all crated all the time, nor do I have anywhere to separate them. So I’m asking – Does anyone know how to keep dogs from licking wounds?
I fear if it doesn’t start looking better soon – he’s going to have to make a trip to the vet, in which I’ll get a lecture for not bringing him in sooner… Hmm… maybe if I actually liked my vet, I wouldn’t try to avoid him.
I don’t have any fool proof answers just a creative thought. Is there anything that you could put aroung Jack’s neck that would taste or smell bad to the other dogs but not irritate the wound. Maybe you could put it on the bandana and not directly on the neck. Thats the best I got.
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Good Idea! Thank you Ditto! I believe I have some of that bitter apple spray somewhere. It’s the stuff that is supposed to keep them from chewing on things, I had gotten it to keep them from destroying the legs of my desk.
Right now, I have a piece of the sticky gauze wrapped around the cut with the bandanna over it, and it seems to be working a bit better than just the bandanna.
Well, one way is to ask for medical advice from your vet on how to handle Jack. Maybe they can put a bandage on it or anything to prevent infection.
Oh and one thing more, they are lovely
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Well, first thing to do about situations like this is to ask medical advice from your vet. They could put a bandage or anything on the wound to prevent infection.
Oh and one more thing, they are lovely
Thank you! Luckily his wound has now healed over fine, and he’s even starting to grow hair there again!