“It hurts!”
Brandy went to bed last night licking her bandaged paw. About a half hour later she woke me up and held her injured paw to me to fix. When Brandy gets a sand burr in her paw on a hike she limps to me and lifts the paw waiting for me to remove the burr to ease the pain. I felt sad that I couldn’t relieve her pain. I loved on her and she soon went back to her bed.
After another half hour, she was back at my bed holding out her paw to me again. I lifted her into my bed and for over an hour slowly rubbed her head, side and the leg above the injured paw. She repeatedly licked the paw, occasionally throwing her head back on the bed with her eyes closed. I knew she was in pain. We went to sleep after a couple of hours. Several times, I half-awakened to hear her licking and would rub her for a while to ease her pain as best I could.