Ohhh yes they can seem like a horrific injury.
Sonny has had a couple and the first one I ever saw ever was on him.
I thought he had a broken leg.
I had emergency call to vet thinking the worse.....
They came pretty quickly and said walk him
i almost said ARE YOU NUTS
WALK HIM
THEN she said I think I know what this is
And it must have been ripe and ready cause she touched around and it popped.
He was immediately better aside from all the after care of wrapping. Etc etc.
It did its thing very fast he was fine the
Nite before and I was soooooo sure he had a broken leg.