There is a split between the pad and flesh i.e  where the pad joins the flesh of the toe.  She will not stop licking it.  Any suggestions to help it get better please?

Bathe it in salted water then keep it as dry as possible. You may need to tape a sock on her foot, or get an elizabethan collar to stop her fussing it.

Oh the poor pickle!
If she's over worrying it still by tomorrow I'd bandage and especially if its postition means it'll be agravated by walking. (I just use the conforming Vet wraps)
I use colloidal silver  (which I can never spell!) and thats it...anything more and it'd be a wound powder I'd use.
If she's really worrying it this stuff's good from Leo laboratories you used to only be able to get it from vets (so if online delivery takes a while might be worth asking vet??)
(some where I had some veterinary glue I used to use for the Huskies paws when I was working dogs..If I find it in the barn I'll pm the info to you)

thats all my useful info (??)
But I have got a funny story to cheer you up...
Missie asked me for advice once for her dog with a split paw...I asked her to send me a pic so I could see it...
this is what she sent :rolleyes:..well I asked for it!! :D :D

Get well soon for your girl x

Thanks to you both.  She's had the split a few days and it has stayed clean so far but worried about her licking it as soon as she lays down. 

>this is what she sent

Excellent  :D :D :D

Daughter made me laugh today.  She took Paris out with a friend who has a Briard.  Paris was sprinting and leaping as she does and leapt across a brook, the Briard decided to follow, mis-judged the distance and head-butted the bank opposite :D  Briard was fine and didn't even show any embarrassment :)

As far as I know you can get human GLUE at Boots, I use it for small wounds on feet but it will come of if they get too wet. But you can soon replace it. We use it all the time at work in the hospt' much easier on the kids than the old needle and thread and all the screeching that accompanied that!!

Last time one of mine did this (Dorain did something miscellaneous on a beach and split his pad) I bathed with dilute iodine solution, used dermisol on it and put a dressing on it (as split was on bottom of pad where it would be walked on - otherwise I'd have gone for just covering it to stop licking). Worked well for him, healed up no probs :)

Just had a look, you can get Dermisol at www.vet-medic.com, sorry forgotten how to do links. I like it for scratches and minor wounds :)

I have used Unction, a sort of cream you put on, zinc based and clears thjis sort of thing up so quickly, seems to take the irritation out

I use the human spray on plaster, it works a treat ;-)

is that the germoline one?

Hi Welshie,

Yes it is :-)

Lots of fab ideas.  Going to keep them for future reference too.