We would like to thank everyone who e-mailed us about this wonderful dog. Her sore paw is totally healed, the embedded nails removed and most of her coat was saved. She is now happily loved in her own home and with any luck her past will fade away from her memory. It was awesome that so many of you cared and took the time to contact us about her.
The Big White Dog, (who still needs a name) is doing much better. She ate a lot yesterday, quietly explored the house and then returned to her post in the master bedroom to sleep some more. She is sleeping a lot!! Every time I would enter the room, she would roll over and lift her sore paw to me as if asking for some help. It's very sad, she has double dew claws and they have fused together and are embedded inter her pad. Keeping that in mind, we stayed on the grass when I took her out to go potty. I don't think she goes potty on grass because she would not go.
Today we will go to the home of another volunteer to work on her coat attempt to cut the nail, if we can not get it out, it will have to be done by a vet.
The "ball" above her pads is her swollen dew claw! on the other foot, the nails on her dew claw have actually curled around in a cirlcle, but at least they did not get into the pad.
As you can see, her once beautiful tail is a hot mess! After feeling her coat really good yesterday, I have doubt that we can save it, but we will try. This poor baby may just have to be stripped :(
