Poor Grey got bitten

We had a bit of a scary end to Friday evening. We were meeting up with Grey's springer friend for a beach run. We've not seen them in ages. We parked up and R was chatting with a friend by a car. The car had dogs in. Grey and I approached the car and then out of nowhere a male black lab shot out from behind the car and went straight for Grey. It was a horrid snarling noise, Grey was screaming, all the humans were reaching in trying to seperate the dog. Grey's front left leg was bitten. We got the dogs separated. Grey was paniced and was backing out of his collar. I was struggling to keep hold of him and didn't want him to slip his collar next to the road and the commotion. We stopped the traffic and went to the other side of the road to check him over. He settled down and we thought he had just a scrape on his inner left front leg. He was fine with his springer friend.

He got up fine on Saturday and I took him straight out to see if he'd be ok with some positive experiences with other dogs. He played fine and had a nice run with a couple of labradoodles. But by the evening he started to limp and his leg swelled. He became poorly puppy and was generally sorry for himself.

We took him to the vets today. He's got an infection under the skin and a slight temperature. He's on Metacam and some antibiotics. He's supposed to have rest for 3 days. He seems much better already, so not sure it will be easy to get to the end of 3 days rest.