Something very horrible happened today. I was at the computer working on a few things when I heard my dog having trouble coming down the last few steps. Btw, the stairs are at the other end of the hallway. So I get up and opened a light and then saw her coming down the hallway. Of course me standing there, she was coming down wagging her tail. I saw a huge black spider on the floor and grabbed a few tissues from my desk so I could kill it. My dog just so happened to jump up on the other computer chair where her blanket was. She likes to sleep next to me while I’m at the computer.

Anyways, I turn away from the computer and look near the floor beside my sister’s computer (that’s where I saw the spider). Then I glanced sideways at the floor and was like, “WHAT THE HELL???” All I saw was blood everywhere on the floor. I looked at my dog and she jumped off the chair at the same moment. I picked her up and held her tummy up so I could see her paws so she wouldn’t move too much. I looked at one and it was bleeding. I’m like holy smokes, what the hell happened? So then I start calling my mom while I’m making my way down the hall and up the stairs. I opened the light too and saw the whole blood trail down the hallway.

I get upstairs and my mom comes to me. I’m like, “Ginger is bleeding. Something happened to her paw.” So I take her to the bathroom and hold her over the counter and sink. My mom looks at her paw and says, “Oh my gosh. She has no more nail here.” I was in total shock and was wondering how the heck that could of happened. So we start washing out all the blood from her paw and bandaged it up to stop the bleeding. Of course she was trying to move the whole time so it made the whole process difficult.

After that was over, I carried downstairs and placed her in her couch bed. I then started cleaning all the blood from the floor and down the hallway. My mom started looking by the stairs because I told her I heard my dog having a problem coming down. Of course two feet away from the stairs was her entire nail from her back paw. I guess somehow it got stuck on the stair (don’t ask me how because it’s all tiles), and when she pulled her leg and jumped the last step, the nail pulled out as well.

It was really scary to be quite honesty. Like, my dog is my best friend and my little baby. Seriously. I’d do anything for her. So I panicked when I saw all that blood everywhere. Thankfully it looks like she’s okay. She already took the bandage off herself. I guess I’ll just have to keep washing it so it doesn’t get an infection or anything. Hopefully the nail will grow back in a few weeks.