Poor Percy

I had to scratch Percy from the Sno-King agility trial last weekend due to an injury. He pushed his way out the front door and down the path, over the little fence to go and fence race with the German shepherd next door. I went out and collected him and brought him back in. Then I noticed the blood on the carpet! His right rear foot was bleeding and quite profusely. After a lot of styptic and pressure I got the bleeding stopped and left a dressing on it for a while. I wasn't able to really tell where the bleeding was coming from with all the blood and styptic, but when I removed the dressing, it became clear that he had ripped his entire toenail off--ouch! He didn't act like it hurt him at all that night. We even went to obedience class and he didn't show any signs of limping, but by Saturday morning he was not putting weight on it. We went to the agility trial anyway, just to see if he could shake it off and we could compete, but not surprisingly that didn't happen. I visited with friends, and worked as a bar setter in the excellent standard ring (my apologies to everyone whose dog thought it was important to great me--especially Diana and Merlin). It was sad not to compete, but better not to let the poor boy injure himself more, or think that agility hurts. He is still limping a little today, but I expect (hope) he will be ready for AKC obedience in Monroe on Saturday!