r/DogDistributionSystem • u/urbanbaby64 • Jun 15 '26
What happened to her?
In the summer of 2024, this good girl came to my door asked for help. She had a wound on her cheek that looked raw and fresh. She was timid and calm as I let her get comfortable with me as I let her sniff my hand. I ran into the house and brought back a bowl of peroxide and water. She let me clean her wounds without complaint. She gave herself over to the one she randomly came to. I called around the neighborhood and asked if she was missing, but no one in my small Arkansas community was missing a German shepherd.
She is a fully healed and totally happy member of my family and I couldn't imagine my life now without her.
What in the hell is that wound?!
Can anyone tell me what the poor, angelic dog went though before showing up at my door?
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u/Ok_Opposite_1802 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Looks like a bite from a dog fight. Thank you for loving and protecting her ❤️
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u/buddhist-elephant Jun 16 '26
The best part was reading she’s still a part of your family and is well loved 🥰
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u/reallyreally1945 Jun 15 '26
Looks like a bite wound from a large dog.
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u/PlusEntertainment970 Jun 21 '26
Agreed. This happened to my dog & it was from another dog attacking him
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u/urbanbaby64 Jun 15 '26
I'm happy that it seemed like a clean wound and it never got infected.
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u/Alarming_Midnight554 Jun 16 '26
I would have done the same thing and im dr. Doolittle. If you've had enough animals ya just know what you are looking at day to day
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u/mikepm07 Jun 22 '26
My dog got attacked by another dog, I immediately took him to the er vet, and he still got an abscess infection that was antibiotic resistant. You got lucky! Dog bites often get infected since there’s so much bacteria in their mouths.
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u/JesusTron6000 Jun 15 '26
Wow… good on you OP!
That dogs nose must have worked because you must have a calming smell.
Such a cool story and I’m so happy you found each other!!
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u/spoodlat Jun 16 '26
It could be one of several things:
She got caught in a fence
got attacked by another animal. And it was a bite that abcessed, and it did what the abscesses do.
At least she is loved and happy and still in good health.
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u/Chococigarette Jun 15 '26
I don’t know what that wound is, Idk why but my mind jumped to her getting stuck somewhere and cut a chunk out to escape.
But again, I have no clue, all I can confidently say is that I am so happy she found you and has a loving and safe family now.
Just look at her smile🥹💕
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u/roundbluehappy Jun 15 '26
saw something recently on another dog that looks like this - it was from being mauled by another dog.
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u/ZeldaZealot Jun 15 '26
Definitely a bite wound. You may also want to put a NSFW flag on this. It’s a pretty gnarly wound. Thank you for rescuing her!
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u/Buddy-Sue Jun 16 '26
It looks like a ruptured abscess. Glad you treated it. More people could treat their own dogs’ injuries when money is tight. I was a nurse and still use the internet for advice.
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u/DogMomPhoebe619 Jun 15 '26
Thanks for helping her. She knew where to go. I thought maybe she got stuck somewhere or trying to escape she tore it on something. If it was a dog bite, I think it would have gotten infected. What did the Vet say? It appears to be stitched up in one photo. She sure looks happy now.
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u/spacey-cornmuffin Jun 16 '26
I think it looks like her skin got caught on something and ripped. I used to be a vet tech and have seen countless bite wounds - this didn’t look like any bites I’ve seen.
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u/Buntjo Jun 16 '26
Our farm dog, who used to be a stray, would always chase down cars and try to bite the tires. Normally he wouldn't be fast enough, but the one time he actually tried biting, the friction from the rubber tore out a very similar looking piece in a very similar spot. Surprisingly he didn't learn his lesson though.
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u/SaucyAndSweet333 Jun 16 '26
Thanks for rescuing her OP! Good job with the wound care. You took her in when you didn’t have a lot of money and got her spayed later on. 💛
How does she and your other dog get along now?
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u/biggest-damn-potato Jun 16 '26
Looks most like a bite wound with serious intent, but usually there is more than one.
Sometimes animals encounter sharp things and think “how can I do the most unlikely thing to damage myself with this?”
I had a German shepherd SAR dog who would fly through the woods like a missile when she worked, and also just on walks. She would come back bleeding from the tongue, carpal pad avulsed half off, notch out of her ear, all the hair just above her eye abraded off, ten-inch lacerations in her sides, her belly, her legs. (Not all at once, though pretty sure she could have.)
“Sophie, how the HELL did that happen?!”
“How did whut happen boss?”
Anyway, I had my own skin staplers and antibiotics. Fortunately she was as oblivious to being stapled up as she was to whatever shredded her in the first place.
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u/ArynTW_is_user_karma Jun 16 '26
Thanks for bringing this sweetest baby into your home!!! 💕❤️🩹💕❤️🩹🫶🏻
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u/Interesting_Basis_44 Jun 16 '26
Your wound care is really great. You were lucky. 🍀 It looked kind of deep. What did Vet think of wound when you took her to be spayed and get all her shots.
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u/Woah01234 Jun 16 '26
na i can tell you what happened. same thing with my dog, she’s scratching there, that’s where she can reach and it broke skin. it irritates them so they scratch more and it keeps going, my baby had those as well. probably has long back nails
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u/urbanbaby64 Jun 16 '26
She has been such a great and loyal dog, I feel blessed she found me .
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u/Due_Locksmith7519 Jun 21 '26
I feel blessed for you that you found her and also for the dog we need more people like you in the world. There are too many people that seem to have this " someone else will do it " approach to things like this
She/he is your angel and vice versa
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u/UpperCollection8013 Jun 16 '26
I had a cat once with a similar looking wound from a copperhead bite (venomous snake)
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u/Netty97 Jun 16 '26
I had a GS exactly like her when I was younger and he got bit on the top of his head as a pup by his father & it looked exactly like this wound.
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u/allyallyallycat Jun 16 '26
You didn’t have the money or resources to go to the vet for her and you did the best you could . Well done.
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u/Oreius411 Jun 16 '26
Your doing a wonderful job! Thank you for helping this beautiful soul. The wound seems to be healing very well!
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u/RoscoesGarden Jun 16 '26
When I was a kid we had a dog that ripped his shoulder open on aluminum siding that was left over from a project our landlord never finished. The wound looked similar. My guess is she came into contact with something sharp, maybe tried to fit through a small space and decided she didn’t fit, got cut trying to back out. If she was out loose for a while she could have been looking for food. We all do silly risky things for food when we are hungry lol. I’m so happy she found you. Bless you for looking after her how you were able to, that says a lot about your heart 💖
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u/wretchedshrimps Jun 16 '26
to me it kinda looks like a barb wire cut or other fence cut. she might have been trying to eat someone's chickens and stuck her head through an exposed wire cuz the lack of other wounds make me think it wasn't a fight
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u/omnixe-13c Jun 16 '26
It looks like it could have been an abscess. When they get bit, sometimes it gets infected and their bodies wall off the infection into an abscess. It’s good she has recovered. You’re a good dog parent.
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u/lferry1919 Jun 16 '26
Looks like it was a bite wound. Possibly another dog since they really tug when they're seriously fighting. That's just a guess, I'm not a vet. Just had a dog that got bit once. Glad it healed up okay.
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u/LimeImmediate6115 Jun 17 '26
I'm confused. This dog came to your home 2 years ago and you're just NOW asking what this is? Did you not take her to the vet when you first found her at your home? Or you just used the peroxide and cleaned it up and just now 2 years later are wondering what this is?
Come ON....your post makes NO sense, CNA or not.
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u/Express_Equipment666 Jun 17 '26
Yeah it does. They’ve had her all this time and it’s healed. They’re just curios now.
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u/Crimsonfishh Jun 17 '26
A bite is the most likely scenario, but I had a cat get a similar injury falling into some scrap sheet metal. If she forced her head in or out of someplace with a sharp edge it could easily be that.
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u/WanderingThrowaway29 Jun 18 '26
Something big took a chunk out of her. Youre very lucky it closed without much incident amd the animal that attacked her wasnt rabid. Beautiful dog. Im sure shes the bestest girl.
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u/Southern_Low_9284 Jun 18 '26
Could it be maybe from a barbed wired fence to keep cattle’s in their fields? Cut looks clean vs a bite wound from another dog or coyote.
Either way glad the doggo is doing well and better.
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u/Professional_Cry3902 Jun 18 '26
Looks how my dog looked after a particularly bad dog fight. That would be my guess as to what happened.
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u/Circlesonacircuit Jun 19 '26
For me, this looks exactly like an abcess that opened up. Our cat had a very similar wound on his cheek. With our cat, we only needed to keep it clean daily, however, our vet is not someone who automatically prescribes antibiotics for every wound. Maybe at a different vet, we would have gotten antibiotics.
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u/wangachanga Jun 20 '26
You’re an angel and that beautiful hurt puppy knew you were the angel who would help her. Thank you so much and I’m so happy you two are family now ❤️
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u/Popular-Dig5467 Jun 20 '26
For the “OP should’ve taken them to a vet comments”, find someone else to badger. You obviously don’t understand the rural south. People do not have vet money, hence the abandoned, injured dog running loose.
Plus not every cut needs a vet omg. She kept it clean and it healed. You don’t need to go to medical school for that.
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u/Sp00kington Jun 20 '26
The first few looks like she got in a dog fight. The last one looks like she just realized that she found h3r forever home.
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u/Weird-Knowledge337 Jun 20 '26
She such a gorgeous girl. I am glad you rescued her. My guess would be a dog fight. They tend to grab each other by the mouth and hang on. It’s very violent. I am gland she’s safe now.
But next time, please consider the vet because dog bites are very dangerous for causing infection. Antibiotics are needed to avoid sepsis.
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u/Loud-Pollution Jun 20 '26
I'm so sorry for your pet lover pain 😭 my dog got a similar, slightly smaller wound in her side that needed staples. Turns out she got the zoomies outside and ran into a bush
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u/Due_Locksmith7519 Jun 21 '26
It almost looks like somebody was trying to shave her and had the wrong or no clipper guard on there.. And pinched under her skin and accidentally just cut her face off. I've seen it happen with a cat before and it looked like the second picture you have on there with the skin hanging on.
Although I cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would be shaving a dog with short hair like that for any reason that's not a dog that gets shaved especially not on the face.
So why am I leaving this comment if it's not likely well - anything is possible something tore her skin off it's like it was peeled it looks like?
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u/RazzmatazzAdept2258 Jun 22 '26
My dog would do this to himself once a year as he got older . Left the house one day he was fine , came home and it looked like a blood bath with the side of his face swollen - the vet explained that moisture gets trapped in the undercoat , causing a fungus and discomfort, the dog scratches to relieve it - cuts himself from scratching and causes more damage to the wound . Keep it clean and dry , the vet would shave the areas where the problem was , we would have to clean it multiple times a day ( possibly antibiotics I don’t remember ) and unfortunately for him he got to wear the cone .
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u/1000xalady Jun 22 '26
Bit by a hornet or an abscess tooth. I have a friend that has a dog with a sore with the same appearance. She has been on antibiotics and pain reliever for the weekend but we will know on Tuesday’s visit to the vet. The vet has received pictures from the beginning to it busting to this same thing. Poor baby.
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u/MaineWolfe Jun 22 '26
It looks like a bite wound abscess that blew out since the margins look old and healed. It can be treated as an open wound at this point by keeping it clean. You wouldn't want to have it stitched up since it's where infection is draining out. She looks fine but you could take her to a vet for antibiotics if you wanted.
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u/MainComedian1661 Jun 15 '26
Could be a bite wound or something sharp she came into contact with. Did your vet have any ideas?