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Thankfully she’s ok now. The vet in Derby put her on antibiotics for another week but said to bring her in after 7 days to possibly remove the nail. When we saw her she said it looked a lot better and wanted her to come off the antibiotics. I begged her for more as the vet in Berwick had said he wanted her on them for several week. So, I paid for the antibiotics but planned to only give them to her if it got bad again. Anyway, returning to Northumberland I dremelled her nail one night and it bled profusely so I restarted the antibiotics and took her back to the first vet who was annoyed that the second vet had advised not to continue with them. A few more weeks of antibiotics and he said she looked ok and the nail is now growing normally ( phew). I think it must have been a combination of trauma ( someone else had walked her the day before it happened) and walking in mud. I always ask for needle aspirations now after my last dog had a lump removed from her head, was x rayed, had a massive scar on her head and it turned out to be a cyst. She was totally brutalised.Had the vet done a needle aspiration she wouldn’t have been put through all of that. I was so worried that Winnie had a melanoma, especially as she’s black and black dogs are more prone to them. I hope your dog is ok and that it hasn’t spread.