What's your opinion about these nails?

RE: Nail oppinion

Judith Joyce — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:49:02 GMT

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That's unusual for a lurcher! Does he not indulge in any clandestine lurchery behaviour (chasing, run first think later) in which case it could still be trauma including chemical trauma from walking in things, especially if claws are long. Agree with the others, any other biopsy (unless you want to take a lost nail and underlying nailbed impression for fungal investigation not worthwhile but if the dew claw isn't affected and not representative you don't want to start taking phalanges off a lurcher too soon. So might be worth being ruling out microbial causes, treating empirically and seeing if nails repeat if you think you have the time.

Tricky one when its painful

RE: Nail oppinion

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:00:32 GMT

Agree with SLO. We have had 5 or 6 dogs with this at once, in the practice. Far more than diabetics etc.

Amputate dew claw, send for histo (need to dissolve bone so takes ages), start B3 & oxytet in the mean time.

RE: Nail oppinion

Alasdair Hotston Moore — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:14:03 GMT

Have a look at this

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6005070/