Last night we were playing some Darby-ball upstairs. Suddenly, Darby was limping and as I got up to go rub his leg (I thought he'd just turned it wrong because he hadn't done anything except run after the ball) I realized he was bleeding, too. Jim got him up on his lap so I could look at it. With all the whining and squirming and fussing, I could just see enough to know that the nail was pulled up at a not-very-normal angle and bleeding. We finally got a bandage on it. I put some gauze around it trying not to touch the nail itself and then sacrificed one of my orphan socks to put over it. We put plastic over that so he could go outside and pee since its been raining and wet here. Amazingly, he left it on all night. I'm going to call Dr. C in a few minutes and talk to her about it. I think I may be taking him to the vet near here since I'm not totally sure I'm up to being able to hold him for Dr. C to bandage it. I'll see what she thinks. Until then, I'm just keeping an eye on him so he doesn't rip the bandage off. So far, so good!
Edit: I just talked to Dr. C. She said that since he's not messing with it, it's probably not bothering him so, for now, we're going to just watch him and see how it goes. I need to go to the post office and the office today so Darby may get to be an office dog today!