Healing up wounds.. Opinions

[Dogs,hogs,coons]

I hunt with my brother. As you know all brothers have a disagreements. He brought out his started strike that's been goin good. So anyways he got cut under his leg right in the groin. About 3" away from his Johnson. So I took him home got him stapled up cleaned out and all ready to heal up left a little space for pus to drip out the back and did what I was taught to do by people that have been in this sport for 20years. The cut is about 5" good cut. His dog is hard headed and has a history of pulling out staples. So I told him that he needed to put a cone on him the next day and make sure that he was doing good. Give him 3-4 days of pencilin and b-12 vitamins and spray vetricin in that hole every day so he doesn't get infected. So in his infinite wisdom doesn't listen to me. So I go over to just check up on the dog today and find him all laid up can't walk and the cut laid wide open. I called him talked to him and he said that I didnt know what I was talking about and it's better to leave a cut wide open so the dog can lick it. And that he's doing alright do he doesnt need the pencilin. So I just left the dog to suffer the way he wants it to. He expects the dog to be better in twoweeks. I told him leaving the dog all open it would take atleast another month if not more to be able to go out again.

So my question to y'all... What approach would yall have taken..?
*just wondering if I'm the only one that doctors up my dogs like that.

[Purebreedcolt]

Had a dog get cut real close to what your talking about. I sewed about 2/3 of it and he kept itclean it was a weirdcit kinda like a 3 blade broad head just bigger.  Have lefta couple open too  depends on dog and location on body.  Penicillin is a must for me

[Dogs,hogs,coons]

Its on the left side like your saying but its wide open and cut some of the muscle to. It wouldn't be a problem if he would leave it alone he keeps it wet raw and irritated so the last time he got cut I let my brother do what he "thinks" is right and took the dog 2 months to get well. I just wanna know what works best. Ive been Doug my way for quite a while and the longest I've had a dog out was a month.

[KevinN]

My CD had a good cut to his chest. It was about 3 inches long and deep muscle. He was lost a couple days so I couldn't do anything right away. When I got him back...put him on antibiotics and anti-inflammatory. I cleaned it out as best i could but didn't sew or staple...didn't want an abscess if I missed something. He was real sore and the wound was swollen and leaked for about a week. He was able to lick it...barely. At 10 days it was no longer leaking and very little swelling and it had starting to scab. At about 3 weeks now and the actual cut looks fine.....very, very good compared to what it was...but he is still sore and limps a bit...hoping the muscle heals up within the next couple weeks.

[Reuben]

for me most cuts are left open and I will use cut heal 3 times a day if possible but twice a day will work...If I see that the dog is getting sore or infected I start one amoxillin capsule twice a day for a week. I keep several bottles of 100 capsules amoxillin (500 mg) around just for days like those...I have friends that go to Mexico every now and then so I place an order when I get low on meds...my kids and grandkids use up the amoxillin more tham my dogs do... 

[setxhogdogs]

I had a dog cut in the exact same spot about 3 weeks ago I spray cut heal on the  wounds everyday and left it open and he healed up within 2 weeks! It was so sore for about a week that he would walk on that leg!

[yelladog0300]

I hunt with my brother. As you know all brothers have a disagreements. He brought out his started strike that's been goin good. So anyways he got cut under his leg right in the groin. About 3" away from his Johnson. So I took him home got him stapled up cleaned out and all ready to heal up left a little space for pus to drip out the back and did what I was taught to do by people that have been in this sport for 20years. The cut is about 5" good cut. His dog is hard headed and has a history of pulling out staples. So I told him that he needed to put a cone on him the next day and make sure that he was doing good. Give him 3-4 days of pencilin and b-12 vitamins and spray vetricin in that hole every day so he doesn't get infected. So in his infinite wisdom doesn't listen to me. So I go over to just check up on the dog today and find him all laid up can't walk and the cut laid wide open. I called him talked to him and he said that I didnt know what I was talking about and it's better to leave a cut wide open so the dog can lick it. And that he's doing alright do he doesnt need the pencilin. So I just left the dog to suffer the way he wants it to. He expects the dog to be better in twoweeks. I told him leaving the dog all open it would take atleast another month if not more to be able to go out again.

So my question to y'all... What approach would yall have taken..?
*just wondering if I'm the only one that doctors up my dogs like that.

Ive had the same thing happen to mine , sounds like in the same spot also.. I stapled him up and put a tiny drain tube at the end of his cut .. gave him a cc of penn. a day and jus ran a water house on full blast on the cut for a good five minutes .. healed up really good within two weeks

[BIG BEN]

everybody has there own way of dealing with cuts really no wrong or right way as long as theyre doing something. If its a deep musle cut I believe it needs to heal from the inside out so i try to leave it open if i can and antibiotics is a must.

[bird]

I would agree with the way you originally described. I recently had the same type of cut on my cd and stapled it leaving a good drain hole at the bottom, vetericyn often and antibiotics are a must.

[jon]

pen and underwoods horse med all i use

[Fixitlouie]

do what I do tell your brother you love him and punch him in the face for being a dumbass

from me...who else

[Dogs,hogs,coons]

Thanks guys I was just wondering how y'all did things compared to mine. Ya I always pump mine with pennicilin no matter what. I just didn't know if I was right on the putting a cone on this dog.

[bird]

A week or two ago I had three dogs in cones. All depends on the dogs and your opinion. My dogs were wanting to pull and scratch the staples out so they earned a cone. If the dog doesn't mess with the staples then I don't put a cone on.

[T-Bob Parker]

Using penicillin on everything is how antibiotic resistant infections occur.
If the dog can lick it, leave it alone.


I had one get a 4" deep! X 2" long puncture/slice in her ham right by her twat just 3weeks ago and followed this ancient advice and now it's totally healed up already and she's been back at full speed since a week after the cut.

Different strokes for different folks.

[Dogs,hogs,coons]

do what I do tell your brother you love him and punch him in the face for being a dumbass

from me...who else

Hahahahhahaha

[djhogdogger]

Using penicillin on everything is how antibiotic resistant infections occur.
If the dog can lick it, leave it alone.


I had one get a 4" deep! X 2" long puncture/slice in her ham right by her twat just 3weeks ago and followed this ancient advice and now it's totally healed up already and she's been back at full speed since a week after the cut.

Different strokes for different folks.

 X2  If they cant lick it, we leave it alone. Had one cut in the flank just as you described and it was healed up in two weeks. The only thing I did was wash the wound with a water hose every few days.

[TChunter]

deep muscle cuts should not be closed up even with a opening unless you have scrubbed out the fast dying tissue and then suture it closed with a slower absorbing suture (preferably synthetic nonbraided to lower the tissue reaction in that sensitive area) INSIDE the muscle..then you can close up part of the outside. you don't need a pocket starting because then infection sets in..depending on where the dog stays depends on if he should lick it. i never let my dogs lick it because they can have the wrong bacteria transferred over. i very rarely close up deep cuts because they do need to heal from the inside out..only time i suture is if its a superficial tear..he does need stronger antibiotics for a few days and then switch to Amoxicillin For the next Few weeks..make sure it stays wet and clean with the use of hydrogel and if you want something easier to find use honey.. dry wounds will delay healing and hurt a lot more..he needs limited activity as well (staying in a small kennel only letting out to use the bathroom)..going to vet school while hog dogging is a plus! lol and don't forget to constantly remove debris! i think people on here call it hydrotherapy..that does great.

[Reuben]

for deep muscle cuts...cut heal...the muscle grows quickly from the inside out and the cut shrinks and leaves a small and smooth scar...not too long ago one of my dogs had a 6 inch cut by at least 2 inches and the skin was hanging...the vet wanted 500 dollars and I took the dog home and treated him myself for about 10 dollars worth of amoxillin and cut heal...

[Reuben]

for deep muscle cuts...cut heal...the muscle grows quickly from the inside out and the cut shrinks and leaves a small and smooth scar...not too long ago one of my dogs had a 6 inch cut by at least 2 inches and the skin was hanging...the vet wanted 500 dollars and I took the dog home and treated him myself for about 10 dollars worth of amoxillin and cut heal...

this cut didn't heal as well as I would have liked because it was huge... but it saved me quite a bit of money doing it myself and I didn't have to worry about cones and the dog ripping out stitches...