Beanie stays on all fours!

Beanie came home one day limping with an open wound on his back left paw after being missing overnight. His xray showed he had some broken, displaced and dislocated toes. With only one remaining functional toe and a big open infected wound it was unknown how he would cope and if it would in fact heal once operated on. In order to save his leg, it was decided to remove the broken and dislocated toes, preserve the one functional toe and the all important metacarpal pad. Because there is not much skin to play with around the paws and there was a lot of infected tissue, it was expected that the wound after surgery would open up to a certain extent. These wounds are managed as “open wounds” with bandaging and heal up quite well from the edges to the middle of the wound.

With two months of cage rest and some very attentive and dedicated owners, we managed to save Beanie's leg and he has recently got the OK to go outside.

Beanie is managing well with his one toe now and is very happy to be able to be back outside on 4 legs.