best thing to do with a scratch wound?

[jeannette84xx]

So my Guinness the clumsy, impulsive, reckless pup.. decided to run really fast to bark at a dog outside the fence and he crash into a picnic bench at the park. I didn't even see it but my boyfriend made a comment about it, it was very dark at the park so he looked ok and when we got home I checked him over and immediately saw a big scrape right under his eye. He was squinting that eye, I think the impact gave him a bit of swelling but that's gone. The fur/skin is scraped off but it wasn't really bleeding, pretty shallow just a scrape, I cleaned with saline and put neosporin on it. In the mornings when I check on him it looks like it's starting to scab over but (now 2nd day) when I look at it in the afternoon/evening it looks like a fresh wound again. He does not paw at it that I have seen, and he is playing with my other dog as usual but nothing that should cause it to ..unheal? haha.

This afternoon I was getting worried because it looked a little yellowish gunky but then when I checked him again it's just back to pinkish/red.. It's a very minor scrape, besides being right under his eye (SO lucky it was not his eye!). Anything else I should do? Of course he goes to the vet if I think it's getting infected but at this point I just want it to heal.. Maybe he is rubbing it or pawing at it when I do not see?

[eskieagilitygal]

Mine get scraps, cuts and nicks all the time.  Just keep it clean and an eye on it that it does not get infected and it should heal quickly. 

[Wolfgirl]

I like using Johnson and Johnson antiseptic wash.  It's painless and keeps the wound clean.  I use it on my animals AND when I get a new piercing