A dog, a wound, some silver and some honey

A couple of our dogs got into a scuffle Friday night. Why do they always do that sort of thing on a Friday night or Saturday morning when you can't get to the vet? Anyway, it wasn't really a big deal as there was only one wound, a small puncture on a foot. The only real danger was from infection. I just washed it off, saturated the area with colloidal silver and then put on a pad with honey and wrapped it up. I did that all weekend and it's healing beautifully!

I've just recently started experimenting with colloidal silver and so far I'm impressed. I've just used it topically so far, but in every case, it's been impressive. They've only been small things, but infected hangnails or scratches and such have always cleared up with an application of silver. I usually spray some one and then cover with a bandaid overnight but even  the longer scratches that aren't covered by a bandaid have done well. I figured between the silver and honey, infection didn't stand a chance, and so it was.

Here's the wound after 2 days. I wish I'd thought to take one at the first, but I was busy getting it taken care of and didn't think of it.

It's looking good enough and healing up so fast that I think I'll leave off bandaging it anymore. Although this dog has been pretty good, there's always the risk of the dog chewing the bandage off and ingesting it or causing more damage. I've had that happen before. The dog is walking on the foot and keeping it pretty clean so I think it will scab up shortly and do just fine. I'll just keep her inside mostly til it does scab over.

While I try and get animals to a vet when possible, sometimes it's not possible and it's good to know a few things that can at least help til I can get to a vet.