Took fred and little one to our local beach. I'm sure we are doomed.....
Last time we went we stuck to the dog only part which is fine and i accept. However, was slighlty peeved to see a couple on horses trotting along the beach (incuding the non doggy part) with the horses crapping everywhere! They didnt pick up after themselves. Thought to myself why should we be confined to one area if they can go wherever they want and not even pick up poo grr. We settle down and little one was having a run around, in slow motion both my partner and i dived at her - she had picked up a piece of dog poo. Why do people in this day and age still think they dont have to pick up their dogs poo?? Doesnt matter that it is the dog friendly area, people like myself go there to exercise our dog and have to take children with us yet we run the risk of little ones picking up poo. Just not on!!! Anyhow, i digress. This weekend we went to the same beach for an hour to stretch our legs. I was sat down sunning myself while little one, dog and partner went off exploring.OH shouts over that the dogs paw is red. Brought him to me and his paw was gushing with blood. sods law, you can touch any part of his body and he doesnt care but for some unknown reason he is very funny about his paws being fiddled with. I managed to hold a baby wipe on it (the only clean thing i had to hand) and applied pressure until the bleeding stopped. He hobbled to the sea where i rinsed it off and carried him back to the car with my vest top wrapped around it. rang the vets who said to take him in if it wouldnt stop bleeding. It did stop but today it is still looking quite 'open' and raw. My question is, is that normal? and will he risk infectoin? Dont think it needs stitchig as its not bleeding but im at a bit of a loss as to what to do now??!!
ETA. While i was sorting out the dog my chap had a scout around and found a broken lager bottle which we believe was responsible for cutting Fred paw. I will refrain from a rant about people not picking up their litter :-)

Dog poo contains nasties bacteria and worms viruses etc etc. Horse poo chewed up grass! Sorry bout his paw though keep it clean and it.should be ok.without stitches

Sorry horses carry worms too, just not exactly practical to get off the horse to scoop the poop.  Their doings are much more fibrous, and not as unpleasant as dog, fox or Cat mess.

I know lots of people who would dash out with a bucket and shovel to pick up any horse droppings for the garden.

It is normal for a cut pad to gap open, and yes it could well get infected, I guess your already keeping it covered, just bath it in a saline solution every time he comes in from outside and hopefully it'll be ok, they tend to heal up quite quickly.

Regular bathing, and if you can tape a sock onto his foot it'll keep a lot of dirt and stuff out.

I'm going through exactly this right now - Rai's got an inch long, deep gash on her big pad on one foot because some @rseholes thought it would be fun to smash a number of bottles along the path in four different places at the park!  I steered the dogs round 3 lots, but the 4th was at the other end of the park and I didn't go along the path there - went up the side of the little woods instead and Rai went out to investigate something and straight through the glass.

She doesn't go tot he vet unless she's practically dying as she gets so stressed about it, it makes her ill and she's already been a little off with me having to handle her paw so if I can get away with not taking her in, I do.  Her is healing well now.

If you can get some manuka honey it's great for helping wounds heal and is a natural antiseptic :-)

I get annoyed with the amount of broken glass lying around,too,in fact last summer everytime i went on the park i would be picking up glass beer and lager bottles,sometimes a whole pack-so at least i knew when id got them all!Yobs would sit onthe benches-feet away from a bin-and hurl their empties as far as they could,but if i didnt pick them up,theyd get smashed by the next little angel who came by,

Nikita,scuse me if im wrong,but is phoebe the bc a new addition?not like me to miss a collie!

I can't stand seeing broken bottles and in our park if it happens they seem to do it on the roadway out of the park so it gets broken up by cars. I reported a boy for smashing a bottle against a goalpost and he was fined £75. I had problems lagter on with this boy but eventually spoke to his mother and explained that I was prepared to take a court order out on him if necessary and that did the trick. Hopefully when he has children he will realise how dangerous broken glass can be in grass.

> Nikita,scuse me if im wrong,but is phoebe the bc a new addition?not like me to miss a collie!

Thought I'd see how long it took for someone to notice ;-)  She is indeed, little tricolour girly.  I'll be keeping a diary about her once I get myself organised - done the first post so far here:

http://phoebecollie.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/welcome-home-crazy-collie/

> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Dog poo contains nasties bacteria and worms viruses etc etc. Horse poo chewed up grass!

You still wouldnt want your children playing around it though would you? I'm happy to keep my dog in one area to allow families to use the dog free bit but when horses are allowed to excrete everywhere it doesnt seem right that dogs arent allowed there even though we'd be prepared to pick up unlike the horse owners.

Thank you. Yes i'm keeping it clean. Phew, can stop panicking now. Cheers guys xxx

Oh,nikita shes lovely!I  do wish you well with her!You are such a dog savvy person,Im sure you both will be fine,best wishes,and-respect!

I too can't stand it that horses can poo everywhere , surely they could attach something to catch it in , infact I'm sure I've seen a horse with one on .

When our dogs have had cut pads , we've always bathed with epsom salts and them sprinkled on Lanacane powder ( the medicated body powder ) soothes , cools and relieves itching , we find it helps dry the pad and stop the irritation so they don't tend to lick .
Hope Freds foot is better soon.

> Oh,nikita shes lovely!I  do wish you well with her!You are such a dog savvy person,Im sure you both will be fine,best wishes,and-respect!

Thank you :-)  She's doing really well today, much happier - once I get the other day's "entries" written up I'll post the link for the blog in her own thread :-)

>I too can't stand it that horses can poo everywhere , surely they could attach something to catch it in , infact I'm sure I've seen a horse with one on .

I've often thought something like that would be a good idea!

> When our dogs have had cut pads , we've always bathed with epsom salts and them sprinkled on Lanacane powder ( the medicated body powder ) soothes , cools and relieves itching

A couple we knew race huskies, told us they used hemorrhoid cream for cut pads as it helped close the wound. Haven't used it but have often wondered?

I've heard of too it but haven't tried it. My friends race huskies and a fortnight ago one cut his pad , the lanacane I gave them did the trick on him :)