What do you want to protect it from? The wet or the dog?

If the former, I just put wrap it in cling film for toilet purposes; if the latter then a cone and/or muzzle

 

The wet and general wear and tear. He's scuffing his foot along the floor a lot at the moment (possibly just the GA after effects) and I don't think cling film would survive very long

 

Your dog should not be wearing anything impermeable over a bandaged wound except where necessary to protect it ie in wet weather, if your floor is tiled or carpeted nothing other than the bandage is needed.

 

I bought a protective boot which looks exactly like yours, to keep my dogs bandage dry when going outside. But be careful, because if that boot is the same as mine, its not waterproof at all. You'll need to line it with a plastic bag or something.

I put a childs sock over my dogs bandage for round the house wear and tear, it gave a bit of protection and can be changed as often as you like.

 

How long has he got to keep the dressing on for? If its only 48 hrs I would just have him in the bandage indoors - it shouldn't actually wear through if he is on soft floor coverings and cover it up with either a boot or a drip bag from the vets tied on with a bandage just for popping outside to the garden then take it straight off again.

 

I put a sock over Ludo's bandage and duct taped it on.
It protected the bandage from his nibbles and going out in the dry.
If we walked out in the wet a plastic bag did the job as he was only going out to toilet.

 

The vet wants the dressing to stay on for 5 days. He's fine in the house, it's just outside in the wet and on the concrete that he needs some sort of covering. The way he's currently scuffing his foot along,it won't last 5 minutes outside

 

How much time is he going to be spending outside though? Five minutes or so?

I wouldn't leave that boot on him indoors. That, together with several layers of bandage is going to create some heat.

 

Just for walks - 5-10 minutes 4-5 times a day. Current living situation means that he doesn't have garden access so walks are something we can't avoid all together

 

I was given an iv bag from the vets that they had the top off to slip over his foot for wet garden visits, it was very handy as it was really thick tough plastic but a couple of sturdy sandwich bags should do the trick I would have thought, but those Mikki boots are pretty useless.

 

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ask the vet for a discarded / empty IV bag for a slip-over "boot", just for wet ground. The tough bags are great for that.
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ask the vet for a discarded / empty IV bag for a slip-over "boot", just for wet ground. The tough bags are great for that.
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I was going to suggest that. My vet gave me some without being asked when Ziggy had a badly cut paw.

 

We're not having fun with the bandage this morning!

 

He doesn't seem to be very happy with the dressing today so it may be coming off anyway

 

When Hector had his leg bandaged up like that it slipped on the second day and became really uncomfortable as he had really bothered with it until it slipped then he would leave it alone and seemed really unhappy, but we were told it was ok to remove it, so we did and then he had to wear the cone of shame as he wouldn't leave his wound alone best boots for smallish feet (although I think Hectors would be far far bigger than your little one's feet) are these but they do these that come in extra small but they are not waterproof.

 

Hope he is OK. If there is no real need for a bandage I would prefer to remove it - at least you can see what is going on then should there be excessive swelling or infection brewing. Might then be a case of a collar to stop him having a nibble.

 

The bandage has survived another day, I've been using an old drip bag as a boot as it's been raining all day but he's just lost it in the grass on our walk so his bandage is wet...

So it's coming off and he can have a fetching inflatable collar if he decides to interfere