bad pads

[jack56 0]

my harriers in the winter time suffer bad from chapped pads especially when their is cold and frosty weather.does anyone know what i could do to prevent this?!!!!!!!

[richowen 2]

my harriers in the winter time suffer bad from chapped pads especially when their is cold and frosty weather.does anyone know what i could do to prevent this?!!!!!!!

my hounds were the same i soaked their feet in a solution of lincospectrum, white powder from vets.. i did it twice a day for 5 days.. very good stuff hardned pads right up...

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Im not experienced with Hounds, but I know a man who is...And he uses mushers wax, and swears by it. It used by the Husky dog teams.

 

As well as that, he makes them cross a trough of chicken broth when kennelling them in the evening after a day out, they cant resist the smell and lick there paws for hours, Its supposed to work along with the wax...But as I said, Im not expert, this is just what he has told me and his hounds dont suffer from foot trouble.

[thefootman 17]

Jack

 

Try Potassium permanganate crystals (also called Condys Crystals). They can be hard to get but you ask around your local chemists someone should have them. You dissolve them in water and dip the hounds feet in the solution. We have used them for years with out foot harriers and they are as good as anything else. They act as a disinfectant and they toughen the skin up. Dip your hounds feet a few times before the start of the season and it will help prevent problems, still if a hound has bad feet you will still have problems no matter what you use. Wear gloves as its a bugger to stain and you will be left with two brown hands.

 

What part of the country do you hunt?

[skycat 6,173]

I've found that a lack of animal fat in the diet can lead to dry, cracked and sore pads. Sorry to harp on about raw feeding, but many cheaper complete dog foods are very lacking in fat content. My dogs spend a lot of time working with their feet in freezing water in the winter and never have a problem. Plenty of lamb fat (apparently the best utilised by dogs), failing that, chicken then beef fat. Not cooked fat, as it comes off the animal. Fat content needs to be high in hard working dogs, but its not just a question of slopping in vegetable oil: animal fat is completely different.

 

Dry, chapped pads can also be helped by smearing with lanolin: sheep's wool is full of it, but I'd look at diet first and foremost.

[jack crowley 5]

bluestone for cattle works well

[Terrier man 38]

Iv always found metholated spirits always did the trick just a matter of diping the pads and squeeze the pad once daily for a week. Some find half surgical spirits and half metholated spirits works just aswell.

 

The Greyhound mega store do something called tuf foot,But at £19 a bottle and with a pack of hounds you will need a few bottles.

 

http://www.greyhoundmegastore.com/tuf-foot.html

[KKK Russell 0]

white vinegar hardens pads and it's a disinfectant.

[scoop 0]

i had a hound a couple of years ago her pads were the same.it was that bad we thought we would have to put her down but tried this stuff think u call it foot wax it comes in a yellow like shoe pollish tin never had any probs again.

[Guest AngelicAcid]

Try the barbours white soap stuff, cant remember the exact name, but its good stuff.

[desertdog 149]

we,d use salt water, then pot permang, that works ok,you may also need to worm hounds for hook worm, it affects pads, had a hound once affected by it, vet treated and it came right.