Feet

[delboy_187 904]

Does any one know breeds that have good feet or a breed with bad feet might be stupid question but is there a lurcher guaranteed good feet an vice versa .its one thing we all examine when choosing a pup . Is there good or bad or just luck of the drawer.not all lurchers feet are alike. My bitches feet are fine ..from her knuckle they kick out tiny bit forward and nice neat feat .my mates dogs are all diff some like my own some legs are straight to the feet.its hard explain. I'm not on about a long foot of a dog that hasn't bin out in god knows how long.

[delboy_187 904]

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[flipbull 1,139]

Nails are spot on in the pic on the right. Was out last week with my dogs litter mate and he had same feet as mine in pic. Is that your dogs feet to the right. Looks like they have had one of those dremmel tool grinders on them. Got one here for mine, but am a bit wary using it.

[TOM HEAVY 140]

collie x usually have decent feet, I would say mostly with lurchers its luck of the draw because of multiple X breeding

[whitefeet4190 1,729]

If u got long dogs you got lame dogs a gent once told me and he is not wrong every running dog I have owned has bashed his her toes up in their careers some worse than others but it's still so frustrating especially when the dog if fit as a fiddle an it's windy outside ???

[DazAllison1 556]

Salukis have best feet by far id say

 

[skycat 6,174]

I would say that the white feet in the first photo have such short claws because of the way the foot is made: when the toes are vertical like that the claw can't but help be worn down all the time.

The other foot, the one with what I'd call a dropped pastern in a horse, to me, shows signs of ligament damage below the wrist, or pain in the foot which she is trying to alleviate by leaning back. No dog should stand like that, with its leg leaning back like that. OK, hard to say from a photo, and when you can't see the rest of the dog. Is someone holding her in place?

 

Lack of exercise, slippery pen floors can both cause bad flat feet, but ligament damage is just as likely. Or sometimes just plain old genetics. I've had a right mixture of breeds in lurchers over the years but I've never had truly flat feet or legs that lean back like that. The best feet I've had in a lurcher were on my Deerhound/Greyhound, and also on her granddaughter, but both got arthritis in their joints in old age.

[TOMO 28,750]

Yeh ,,,real horrible pasturns on that dog,,,I read somthing on an Alsatian site about it being a problem with diet in young pups within that breed,,,,weather it's the same in a sigh thound I'm not sure,,,but whatever the reason,,,that dog has big problems,,,

[Giro 2,648]

Often Its not what the feet look like, its how the hold up against the workload and land..

 

Alot of foot injurys are just plain bad luck at times..

Edited February 25, 2016 by Giro

[TOMO 28,750]

Here's a link,,,,

 

http://www.grunfeldshepherds.com/articles/lanting/carpal-subluxation-and-weak-pasterns-two%20different-conditions.html

[Phil Lloyd 10,739]

"The best foot on a lurcher, is the one that sustains the least damage"...

Edited February 25, 2016 by Phil Lloyd

[bird 10,014]

collie x usually have decent feet, I would say mostly with lurchers its luck of the draw because of multiple X breeding

true with herding dogs, both dogs are 1xs one colliex grey the other gsd x grey and there feet are very good, i think the more greyhound and whippet in the mix, you get more foot injury's , the only sight hound with good feet are salukis, and not over big deerhounds .

[bird 10,014]

Often Its not what the feet look like, its how the hold up against the workload and land..

 

Alot of foot injurys are just plain bad luck at times..

 

true, Bryn my 1x collie x grey 9 this year and never had and foot prob in that time, and been worked in alot of differnt places , same with Buck he 4 this year got good feet and he been on differnt ground, he did crack his toe last year, but that was hitting some rocks going like a nutter after a rabbit, but apart from that his feet are sound no injury's , and his pastuns do drop a bit, it s as tomo said in the gsd breed, but dont affect his work,running he still catches loads of stuff

[lurchers 2,981]

The shape of the red dogs feet looks like a deformity as if you look at its toes they spay out instead of been tight together.ive seen this in some whippet blood dogs as to say its s breeding fault.

[desertbred 5,490]

Saluki feet have evolved to with stand the rigours and stress placed on them by many different types of terrain, They suffer much less foot, wrist and ligament damage than most other coursing/hunting dogs. The crosses especially the grey/saluki can have dodgy feet this is attributable mainly to the toes and feet of the greyhound. i am not a fan of the tight and arched toes often referred to as cat feet. The purpose of the dogs feet is to support the weight of the animal and to withstand the stress and tension of running turning and twisting as well a the shock impact from landing from a jump and running on hard uneven ground. A foot with good pads, toes slightly arched with a slight spread help to distribute the weight and stress better. The smaller the dog the feet can be tighter such as the whippet.Hocks and pasterns should be virtually vertical when standing the sloping pasterns and sickle hocks usually result in lots of leg,foot shoulder and spinal injuries in quick hard working dogs. Nails if not attended to regular from a pup through a working life can also cause serious confirmation problems if left unattended.

Edited February 25, 2016 by desertbred