Little Turk
Boxer Pal
Our boxer is 1 year 2 months old. Great health aside from a slight heart murmur discovered a few months ago. He’s on a diet of the Royal Canin designed for boxers. He’s crypt orchid, and we recently had him neutered.
On the day of the surgery his right paw swelled up to the size of baseball. The vets took a look at it during the surgery, in between the pads, and found nothing wrong, no cuts, anything. Following the surgery things went well, aside from his paw being so swollen. The doctor’s gave us some anti-inflammatory meds and the swelling soon went down.
The next few days the swelling went down, but his licking the paw went up. We had noticed him licking his paws once in awhile in the past before the surgery – though very intermittently – licking the inside of his front paw sometimes after he came in, or just when lounging around. Again, rarely if ever.
Within 2 days he licked/chewed his paw to the point where we finally noticed it getting raw and set up an appointment with the vet. The next day he had nearly chewed off the top of his paw. The vet was unable to suture it because we had had to wait for the night to go to the appointment, so it’s healing open. His paw is now wrapped up, and will be for a few weeks. When we take the post-surgery head cone off he’ll immediately begin to go for the wrapped paw. We attribute him going for the wrapped paw because of the wrapping on it.
But NOW he’s going for his other three paws WITH the cone on and we’re having a hard time stopping him when we’re not around. They’ve begun to get to the point where they’re reddening too.
The vet called in a doctor of internal medicine to diagnose what could be causing him to do it. They said this is nothing that they’ve ever seen. Not allergies, not self-mutilation, not nerve damage making his paw numb and causing him to do it, not food allergies, no fractures or paws. A whole list of possibilities that it normally could be – each possibility ruled out because of a critical element lacking. The vets are at a lost.
We’re currently re-wrapping his paw everyday to let it heal. But we were told that our next and really our only option is to drive to Cornell to talk to researchers/doctors about what it could be.
Does ANYONE have ANY clue what this could be? He gets tons of attention, so self-destructive behavior is likely ruled out. He’s been on Royal Canin for about 4 months now, before that Canidae. ANY sort of help or insight would be immensely appreciated. If you need any additional info to trouble shoot let me know and I’ll provide it as soon as I can. Thanks in advance!!!!
On the day of the surgery his right paw swelled up to the size of baseball. The vets took a look at it during the surgery, in between the pads, and found nothing wrong, no cuts, anything. Following the surgery things went well, aside from his paw being so swollen. The doctor’s gave us some anti-inflammatory meds and the swelling soon went down.
The next few days the swelling went down, but his licking the paw went up. We had noticed him licking his paws once in awhile in the past before the surgery – though very intermittently – licking the inside of his front paw sometimes after he came in, or just when lounging around. Again, rarely if ever.
Within 2 days he licked/chewed his paw to the point where we finally noticed it getting raw and set up an appointment with the vet. The next day he had nearly chewed off the top of his paw. The vet was unable to suture it because we had had to wait for the night to go to the appointment, so it’s healing open. His paw is now wrapped up, and will be for a few weeks. When we take the post-surgery head cone off he’ll immediately begin to go for the wrapped paw. We attribute him going for the wrapped paw because of the wrapping on it.
But NOW he’s going for his other three paws WITH the cone on and we’re having a hard time stopping him when we’re not around. They’ve begun to get to the point where they’re reddening too.
The vet called in a doctor of internal medicine to diagnose what could be causing him to do it. They said this is nothing that they’ve ever seen. Not allergies, not self-mutilation, not nerve damage making his paw numb and causing him to do it, not food allergies, no fractures or paws. A whole list of possibilities that it normally could be – each possibility ruled out because of a critical element lacking. The vets are at a lost.
We’re currently re-wrapping his paw everyday to let it heal. But we were told that our next and really our only option is to drive to Cornell to talk to researchers/doctors about what it could be.
Does ANYONE have ANY clue what this could be? He gets tons of attention, so self-destructive behavior is likely ruled out. He’s been on Royal Canin for about 4 months now, before that Canidae. ANY sort of help or insight would be immensely appreciated. If you need any additional info to trouble shoot let me know and I’ll provide it as soon as I can. Thanks in advance!!!!
