Hi,
Today as I was letting my dog in the house, the screen door accidentally shut on his tail I thought it had just pinched the skin or pulled some hair....no. I found the very tip, skin and hair, on the back stoop.

I feel awful. It was my fault that the door shut on him. Now he's sitting here with a sanitary pad wrapped with blue painter's tape halfway up his tail to keep it from bleeding all over and to stabilize it. My dad said that if it's still bleeding tomorrow or looks infected, we'll take him to the vet. I told my parents that I'd rather take him now, but that was hours ago before I went to work. When I got home, I helped my dad change the dressing, and it was no longer bleeding. If we took him tonight, it'd have to be to the vet hospital.

Should we still take him in? My parents gave him half of a tylenol , and he's been lazy and sleeping ever since. I'm so worried, especially since it probably wasn't the smartest thing to give human medication to an animal.