Poor Bertie!! 
He was playing ball with my grandchild and myself this afternoon when suddenly, he limped towards us with blood pouring out of his front left paw!! ...
I saw at once he had ripped the claw from it's ' bed' and went immediately to the vet.
It took four of us plus a muzzle to perform a relatively simple but very painful operation. There followed injections for inflammation and some antibiotic. We hope the claw will resettle in it's ' bed' and I'll know that by saturday.
This morning I set off to walk both dogs and was prepared to carry Bertie. I put him down to try a few steps and he would hop for a few yards and then look pathetically up at me..so, I picked him up.....poor old chap!! Gradually I noticed he was hopping more easily and by the end of the walk , he was putting it to the ground and almost walking normally.
He does seem 'accident prone' right now...I'.m trying to figure it out because in every other way he has made enormous progress yet again since taking Rosi's ' Brainstem Essence'....which removes past embedded traumas from the brain. You know something? This is another very brave little dog!!!