In case you are wondering Wylie is the name of our oldest dog. We have two dobermans that I have mentioned in previous articles. Wylie turned eight this past April and as I mention before he is a cancer survivor. He has been clear for about 4 years now.
This summer my husband and I purchased a couple of attachments for our bikes so we could run the dogs. It was working out really well and the both of them were really enjoying it. After one of our outings though Wylie began to limp favouring his left front paw. He just happened to be due for his yearly physical so we mentioned it to the vet.
He checked it over and thought it was just sprained. Wylie needed some work done on his mouth so we decided to delay that for a month and then if the paw was no better have an x-ray done the same time that his mouth was being done.
The x-ray showed something but not quite sure what but when he trimmed his nails on that paw this cheesy substance came out. Again it was one of those things that was not going to be easy to diagnose. We put him on antibiotics and waited.
To make a long story short the pills did not work so the vet thought we should amputate his one toe. He had his toe off about a week ago and results can back from the lab that it was a tumour but it is benign. The vet is waiting for some more test results but we were very happy so far with the news.
We took his bandages off yesterday and of course like any normal dog all he wanted to do was lick so on went the cone. I spent most of the night up with him finally took the cone off and put the leash on him. If he moved I knew about it.
I think he knows what he has to do to keep the cone off because he has not licked it in quite a while now.
He is starting to walk on his foot again and hopefully when he gets the stitches out next week he will be back to his old self again.

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