Sometimes, life says hold my beer...

[311boogieman]

SFW - best of luck with all of this man.

Guys, @SFW is an amazing guitarist. Not a wanna be like a lot of us.

Dude, I'm not a dog guy but I can feel your pain (remotely).

Hang in there and you will learn your way around this.

 

[Racerxrated]

As others said, OUCH!! You got this....good luck in your recovery.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

Damn, that is definitely NSFW. That sucks man. Sorry you had to go through that, but like you said at least it wasn't your daughter or wife. Look on the bright side. Now you get to join me in the 3/4 thumb club.

You can't see the scar so much anymore, but I lost about half the bone before my knuckle when it was pretty much disintegrated in a car wreck. It's on my fretting hand.

Hope it heals up soon so you can get on to getting a grip on gripping picks, and back to playing. Mine definitely changed my playing. I lost some of my stretch on my fretting hand, and now that I'm in my 50s I tend to keep to 24.75" scale guitars because there's some stuff that's either uncomfortable or that I'm just flat out not able to play on a 25.5" scale.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

Hey, not trying to get into your business with your dogs either, but are the dogs neutered?

Raising two high energy unneutered littermates together, especially two very strong and capable dogs like GSD's, is one hell of a task obedience trained or not. Have you ever tried to tackle something like that before?

If you are planning on breeding then maybe keep your obvious stud intact, but neuter the other?