My Husky Hurt Her Paw! Time for a Vet Visit!

Guess what we're doing today? If you ask Kira what we're doing today, I'm pretty sure she is pretty frustrated with me right now. Do you want me to take the cone off while we do the video? Considering you do have your paw booty on. So, we can explain to everybody what's going on. Let's take this off. Ready? Let's take it off. Will you be happier with it off? She's like, mom that came off so easy. Don't even try it. You were going to try it, weren't you? Oh my goodness. So apparently, we have a little story for you guys. Before everybody goes, where's Eleanor and Memphis? Eleanor is right there. Memphis is right here. They're both fine. It's this dog that we're talking about today. I feel like I always do health updates on you, ma'am. You want to do a health update? Memphis says, I'm doing great. I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm doing amazing. So, what happened? Well... If you saw the live stream last week, we talked about this a little bit on the live stream. But, I know a lot of you guys didn't watch that. If you follow us on our other social media, you may have seen some updates on this. So, I thought I would do this video to kind of explain a little bit more. Plus, give you some more updates about what's been going on. We went camping. We took all the dogs. We went camping. It was ridiculously hot. So, we didn't do our normal things. The dogs pretty much were inside the RV in the air conditioning. Because it was in the low 90's and high humidity. The few times that we did go out, we would take the dogs for walks to go to the bathroom. Then, we would get back in the camper. We do not know what happened. But, when our buddy Greg showed up, he found a picker bush in between the campsites. Which, I can show you guys here. Now, that picker bush... Kira was like trying to go to the bathroom on that bush a couple of times. Now, you would think, if she stepped on the picker bush, that she would have like shaken her paw or something. To let us... I know! To let us know that she stepped on something. But, that never happened. So, we aren't sure. She could have stepped on a picker. She could have stepped on a sharp rock. We don't actually know what she did. But, Kira hurt her paw. She's hiding it from me. She's like, nobody is allowed to see my paw. Not nobody! Not know how! Is that how it is? So anyway, she hurt her paw. You guys don't want to see it. It's kind of gross. It's basically like where her two little toes are. It's this toe right here on the side. It's open and raw. And oozy and gross. Trust me, you don't want to see it. So, Saturday we took her into the vet. They got us... They squeezed us in. It wasn't an urgent care appointment. We actually got a regular appointment. Which was kind of nice. So, they squeezed us in. They took a quick look at it. They said, oh yep! It looks like it could be infected. She needs antibiotics. So, they prescribed us some antibiotics. The other thing they told us to do, which I actually started doing before I got her into the vet. Was we do Epsom salt paw soaks. Which I can kind of show you guys how we do that. Right here. I'll show everybody how we soak your paw. So, we fill the bathtub with six gallons of water. Salt is in. So, it's about a half a cup ratio to a gallon of water. So, depending on how much you put in. That's the ratio we're using. We have her Hello Kitty lick mat. And we put Kira in the tub. That's her paw that hurts. And she's going to stand in here and lick this lick mat. For about seven to ten minutes. If she finishes the lick mat before ten minutes, I'll let her out. If not, she stands in here and soaks. And these two get jealous. But don't worry. I give them a little peanut butter as well. So, part of the idea behind those and why I started doing them. Was I thought if she had a thorn or something in there. That it would kind of help draw that out. If you don't know what Epsom salt is good for. It's good for a lot of things. Don't let your dogs drink the water that has the salt in it though. And always talk to your vet before doing those types of things. But that is a trick we learned when Memphis hurt her paw quite a while ago. And it actually helped her considerably. So, we started doing the Epsom salt bath soaks twice a day. And I just stand her in the bathtub. Because it's easier than trying to get her to hold one paw in the tub. It helps with the inflammation. It will draw anything out of there that may be in there. It actually should help her heal faster. And then she got a two week round of antibiotics. Well today, I'm leaving for Vegas for five days. For Super Zoo. Which is a huge pet industry event. That I go to every year. And Kira is going to be staying at the Super Zoo. She's staying here with Eleanor and Memphis. And her dad. So, it's been... Look at her! Big stretch! So, she's been on the antibiotics for two days. But since I'm going to be gone for five days. And I didn't like the way her paw looked this morning. I decided to take her back into the vet. This morning for a recheck. She's like, guys I totally can move around. When I want to. I just make everybody think that I feel yucky. Because that gives me all kinds of sympathies. Are you going to get up on the couch? She can move around really good. So anyway, I took her in this morning. For a recheck. And they said... That we're doing everything right. And it actually does look really good. I come back at the end of this week. They told me, if her paw is still swollen. By the end of this week. To bring her back in. But they said, we're on the right track with it. Which is good. So hopefully, it will be all nice and healed by the time I get home from Vegas. That's what we're hoping, right? Eleanor is like, how come I'm not getting any attention? How come you're not paying attention to me? I know! I'm giving all the attention to Kira. Because she hurt her paw. And we're not really sure how she did it. My goodness! So, she's mostly been wearing the paw booty. Hi! Oh my goodness! Thank you for sneezing on me! Stop chewing on your sister! What are you doing? Stop chewing on me! Oh my goodness! What are you doing? She wants to play so bad. Kira's like, I don't really want to play just yet. I don't feel that great. But, Eleanor feels amazing. She wants to play with you. Kira's like, maybe not. We've been keeping the paw booty on her paw. Are you punching Memphis in the face? Wow! Well, apparently she's going to prove me wrong. Oh hi! She's going to act like she's feeling ok. Well, this update just got chaotic. Chaotic! Memphis jumped on the couch. Oh my goodness! All kinds of chaos happening around here. And the chaos woos! Alright! Are you going to play with toys too? Alright! Show everybody that you actually are feeling better. Whoa! You really are? Ok! I'll take it! That makes me feel great! That makes me feel happy that you feel better enough to play with your toys. Yeah! You started this Kira! You started this! So, I guess... Really long story short. Even though it's not short. It's still really long. Why do people say that? Really long story short. The story was still long. What we're doing is, we're giving her the antibiotics. We're keeping it wrapped. We're doing the Epsom salt soaks for her. And making sure she doesn't lick on it. Between the wrap and the cone, it's actually working pretty good. If you guys want to see updates on how she's doing, we've been posting them on our TikTok and our Instagram. And on our... I know! And on our Snow Dogs Shorts channel. I've been posting them in short form content. I will put links to all of those down in the video description below. She got off the couch. So, I did make a GoFundMe where I've been posting all of Memphis' vet bills over the past couple of months. And I did post Kira's there as well. Please do not feel like you have to donate to that. I had a lot of people that kept asking if they could help with the dog's vet bills and other things. So, we did start that. If you are a member of this channel, like if you paid the monthly membership, all of the membership fees that you guys pay, go into their vet fund as well. So, that's another way you can help. And then again, just watching the videos, sharing the videos, those types of things. But we do have the GoFundMe. We also have a Venmo at Gone to the Snow Dogs. Any of the money that goes in there, also goes to their vet bills. Their vet bills are covered and we do sometimes use that money to pay it forward to other pets in need. So yes, I take that money and put it into the dog's account. But sometimes, like if we have a shelter dog or a rescue dog that needs a little bit of help, we'll use money from there to pay it forward as a thank you for all of you guys that want to help. But again, please do not feel like you have to. The dog's vet bills are covered. It's just for those of you that have asked. So, this video became way longer than I wanted it to and that's okay. I think next week, we'll be uploading a camping video. If you guys want to see some of our other camping videos, of course you can always follow us on our vlog channel at YouTube.com slash Snow Dogs Vlogs. Again, there will be a ton of links down in the video description below for all of our other social sites. You guys should definitely go check them out and follow us there. But I am now going to finish packing because I leave tomorrow. What do you think Kira? Are you going to be good? Are you going to be good while I'm gone? Yeah? I'm sorry you hurt your paw. I'm glad you're feeling a lot better today than you were the other day. If you guys have any funny guesses on how Kira cut her paw, leave them down in the comments below because it would be nice to laugh and giggle about it. She is fine. She's doing good. We just don't know how she did it. Dogs, I tell ya! It's always something, huh? Alright you guys! As always, thanks so much for watching! Thanks for subscribing! Stay positive and dream big! We will see you again soon! Also, if you did not hear, we brought back Fan Friday. You can click over here somewhere to go watch the most recent Fan Friday video. Will there be more? There will be! As long as you guys go watch this one so we can know that you want to actually see more of those. Love you guys! Thanks for watching! Thanks for subscribing! Stay positive and dream big! We will see you again soon! Good bye! Pawdience!