Cut pad and I surface at last (g)

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

HI all,

Yep, I'm home too and more or less functioning after the excitement of the
trip to Abbotsford and meeting Gina and George and 4 of the Brier gang.
Wow... wow.. kindness beyond my wildest hopes and nothing but love and care
was shown to me by Gina and her George. SeaJay, Trix, Twister and the
adorable Kaycee were my surogate goldens for the week. We'll be staying at
the same hotel as Gina and George next year, lol, I just couldn't get enough
of their generous hearts and my gosh they were FUN so I'm way looking
forward to next year already.

Coming from podunk Alaska I am not at all used to seeing so many people or
dogs (I never fly if I can help it so hardly have ever left the state in
more than 20 years) so taking in hundreds and hundreds of people and close
to 1600 dogs for days on end was almost more than I could process and stay
even halfway grounded, lol. I can hear Gina and George laughing already.
You'll have to get them to tell you the story of how it took us 40 mins to
get to the show site the first day and how it took us an hour and 1/2 to get
home to the hotel after the show that same day! lol! George rescued us and
was really nice about it (g) although how we could get so lost when the trip
SHOULD have taken 10 mins I'll never figure out!

well, my question today is what to do with a cut pad that's more torn than
cut. Took the Sidecar crew out to the big fields for a run this afternoon
and darned if Sophie didn't cut that pad up on her pastern. Rather than a
clean slice it looks more raggedly torn in a Y shape and I know stitches are
not going to hold there. She's cleaning it, I looked it over carefully and
it's clean. Should I leave it be or bag balm it and wrap it up?

Still in 7th heaven,
Debs