Are you lads using toes to count as well as fingers lol lavs right the dogs 7 yrs old just turned this month some people are just obsessed with this dog he's all they talk about lol probably cos they got nothing worth talking about of their own
feets most important always do them in warm salt water check for cuts etc specially so with all this talk about this Alabama rot they reckon if a dogs any sort of cut in its foot that's how it gets in through contact with the soil
sounds to me like you got the best of both worlds leaving her where she is then just take her out for the lad til you get a pup off your old dog that you can train up the way you want