The Aftermath...

Those of you guys who read my blog regularly, that Gina had a mishap while hiking Rax. When I got home I checked her paws and she had ripped the of her front legs 2 pads really bad. The tiny scratches on one pad of the right leg is pretty much not too much of an issue. And it really doesn't bother her much. The pads on the front legs are an entirely different story. Those are bothering Gina and they're definitely hurting. But of course this being the weekend there was not much I could do about. And since it was not an emergency I wan't going to call the emergency department of Vienna's VET University.
The plan was to take Gina to my VET. I checked if he was there, but don't you know it, he is on vacation. Fortunately I've a second VET close to my apartment. With Vienna currently experiencing a heat wave, I wasn't going to make Gina walk on the hot pavement. After all it was still 95+ F outside, when we had to head out to the VET. So I called a cab and went there. We had to wait at the VET for about 30 minutes. When he finally took a look at Gina's paws, she was surprisingly cooperative. And it was exactly what I thought. He trimmed back the edges of the ripped pads. Gave me ointment for the pads and some neoprene doggie boots for when she has to walk on the pavement. And as I suspected, this is an injury that will take  couple of weeks to completely heal. When I talked about how Gina had hurt herself, he told me that this is not exactly an uncommon injury when dogs hiking limestone mountains. On the other hand Daisy never had those problems. And I'm not entirely sure if there wasn't some preexisting condition. Not sure if there wasn't a small blister when the dog walker walked with Gina during the current heat wave. And it really doesn't take much to burn a dogs pads on the pavement during a heat wave. But I can't be sure about that. And in the end it really doesn't matter. That's something we have to go trough.