Feet

[stagmad 91]

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..

agree with this a bit, ive seen a few dogs with problems that still work ok, they may be able to give ya a few runs but most likely not hold up to the work load of a similar dog with better feet, legs etc. Ive seen a dog that badly broke a leg and had healed but the bottom few inches of it's leg was permanantly sticking out the side at about 15 degrees. she still ran with it, no where near as well, she got slower but got smarter.

[delboy_187 904]

I took them from Google them pics as an example

[Maximus Ferret 2,065]

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..

You can say that again! My deer/grey bitch has classic good feet and has run some of the roughest land in Ireland with no injuries. A couple of months ago she sprained a toe just playing in the sea, running in and out of the surf, a thing she's done regularly all her life.

Having said that I noticed straight away and with "zheng gu shui" and 5 weeks rest she was soon sound with very little difference showing in the knuckle.

[flipbull 1,139]

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.

He's got a nail missing on toe nearest the camera, never grew back.

[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..

You can say that again! My deer/grey bitch has classic good feet and has run some of the roughest land in Ireland with no injuries. A couple of months ago she sprained a toe just playing in the sea, running in and out of the surf, a thing she's done regularly all her life.

Having said that I noticed straight away and with "zheng gu shui" and 5 weeks rest she was soon sound with very little difference showing in the knuckle.

 

 

More or less same injury happened to my old dog..

 

Tendon never healed true and her toe splayed off to left..

 

Foot looked awful but she grafted on to a ripe old age with a crooked foot..

[reddog70 236]

 

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

 

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Edited July 13, 2016 by reddog70

[Maximus Ferret 2,065]

 

 

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..

You can say that again! My deer/grey bitch has classic good feet and has run some of the roughest land in Ireland with no injuries. A couple of months ago she sprained a toe just playing in the sea, running in and out of the surf, a thing she's done regularly all her life.

Having said that I noticed straight away and with "zheng gu shui" and 5 weeks rest she was soon sound with very little difference showing in the knuckle.

 

 

More or less same injury happened to my old dog..

 

Tendon never healed true and her toe splayed off to left..

 

Foot looked awful but she grafted on to a ripe old age with a crooked foot..

 

The foot came fine on mine and she ran perfectly for a couple of weeks until she ran head on into something flushed by my other bitch and travelling around 30 mph. Glad it happened at this time of year rather than September. I'm keeping her on the leash for a while and trying to get rid of an edema the size of a half coconut at the moment.