My dog is injured and depressed - how can I cheer her up.?

Well....All I can say is that MY Gsd once cut his pad "really" bad and very deep and it just bled for ages and there was no way he was going to not have any exercise.

I would bind it up and I bought an oversize tough dog boot which I would put on and let him run around in on a walk I`d tape it on properly at the top so it could not possibly fall off. Ok, the cut may have taken a "little" longer to heal up but it was better than my dog going bananas because of no exercise. It did heal up though and my dog was happy throughout.

The boot also came in handy to stop my dog licking at the wound.

But without seeing your dogs cut I can`t advise YOU what to do with Your dog. I personally do not ALWAYS take a vets advice on issues such as this one. THEY do not have to live with the dog and what the vet does not know about they cannot comment on. Get my drift?

I don`t see how a gentle walk with a boot on could do your dog any harm, but its your choice. Jmo.

Ask your vet if he can look into glueing the cut. Veterinary superglue is used in many surgeries these days but not all vets have caught on to the idea. Then as others have said, invest in a pair of boots.

I say a pair as using a matching pair seems to annoy the dog marginally less than one odd one!

This happened to my dog when he was a puppy. I use to take him to a tennis court in the park and take him off leash once I got the door closed. We would play ball in there. He could run free in there. One day, I noticed blood on the ground inside the tennis court when he brought the ball back to me. The pad in the middle of his foot had been sliced. It turned out that someone had opened a can of tennis balls and left the sharp metal top on the ground. I took my dog to the animal hospital. They cleaned it out, gave him some antibiotics, and wrapped it so much that it looked like he had a little pink cast on.

He couldn't play either for a while. I would put him on his bed, and I would sit close to him and slowly roll tennis balls to him. He would catch them with his mouth and I would take it immediately. It kept him off of his feet, while still stimulating his brain. I would also give him a Kong filled with treats. He would lay there for a long time trying to get the treats out of it. With injuries like that, you need to get creative.

What part of complete rest didn't you understand until it's healed. Dogs don't get "depressed" which is an anthropomorphic statement.

You can buy shoes from the Pet Shop. Ask your vet if she can take short walks if she wears them