08/27/2025
August 8th, Kira was licking her paw. So we looked and it was pretty oozy and gross. We hadn't seen her licking it any other day, and considering we are with her all the time, we probably would have noticed.
We had gone camping, and she was walking near a nasty picker bush that Greg found, so we assumed that she may have stepped on that thorny bush, but we never saw her jump or react to it. So we can't be sure.
I took her to the vet on the morning of August 9th, and they took a very quick look, and said, yup, it's infected and sent us home with antibiotics.
I went back in on August 11, because I was going out of town, and wanted another check. We were doing everything right (Epsom salt paw soaks, antibiotics, keeping it covered in a breathable bo**ie). So off to Vegas I went, and Jamie cared for her the entire week.
I got home and on August 17th, I took a close look at it, and it was looking amazing. Less red, not oozy, looked almost healed!
Friday, August 22nd, she did have her bo**ie off, and we noticed she was trying to lick her paw, so we looked again, and it looked worse then the first day we found it. Off to urgent care again! This time we did a skin scrape, which showed a bit of Fungus, and we also did a full culture that got sent out to MSU (no results on that as of this morning) We did start her on an antifungal medicine called Ketoconazole, at 200MG once per day. She has been on that since Saturday morning, but her paw doesn't look any different to me, I still feel like it looks worse.
So now what? Well, we are still waiting for the culture. Still doing paw soaks. On a good note, she's not wincing or crying, and she's not limping, but man, this has really confused me. I can't do any next steps until the culture comes back.
I just wanted to get this all written down, and also update you all. And yes, she finally has Pink bo**ies . 🙂
