Big words for a small boy . <| sep |> I had a dog like that and this is also something you should look out for in your dog . My dog got this cut , all the way around his ankle , making a perfect circle . We had been hearing stuff on the internet about people being cruel to animals , and thought maybe someone had thrown something into our backyard that had snared him . Well , after looking all over , we found nothing . A few days later , we notice it is getting deeper ! We search the yard again , still nothing . It ' s deep enough now though that we NEED to take him to a vet it was hard to see , since he was so furry , but on closer inspection it was quite deep . We get him to the vet , and he literally HANDS the vet his paw to work on . He did this multiple times , whenever the vet needed a closer look . Anyways , turns out someone put the end of a red balloon around his paw , we think when we had some little kids over they thought it would be like a bracelet . Since it was red , you couldn ' t see it in the cut .