what about Shocks foot though looking good isnt it

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thanks for that, bought a knife at a show last weekend but i dare not use it for fear of ruining her coat lol

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yes its looking great even better than when I was at yours the other week, will it effect her showing, not having the claw?

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that is growing back just need to shape the others now as they are curling from the way she carried the weight on her foot for the last 6 weeks

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what happened to it?

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she practically did a self amputation of her toe got it caught in a croft puppy panel and pulled her toe was hanging by about 1/8 inch of pad skin she broke the 2nd toe bone and smashed the bit she broke off into three, torn the tendons and ligaments. Vet had said if she had been a pet he would have amputated but as she was a show dog he would try to save it !! He had to remove the three bits of bone then shave the cartiledge off the 1st toe bone and fuse them together and then rebuild everything else around it. It was touch and go if they could get the blood supply back etc but I think he has done a wonderful job further back in this thread somewhere is a photo of when I first took the dressing off.

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ouch, nasty just had a look at the pic and its improved so much, we get lots of missing toes etc in my breed as they often get them caught while working through the winter, when it comes to judging dogs with missing parts, aslong as it won't affect their working its allowed and they have as much chance as the rest.even neutering is allowed!

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as I say just got to shape the nails now to allow the foot to fall straight just got to have a good day to do it as I will use the dremel and dont want to upset the fixed toe

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the dremel i've got one of them to fix the car body with, are ya sure its safeD

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yep it is what I do all my dogs nails with

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