Raine (2 year old Malinois) and I are training in agility and our intstructors just opened a new facility. It's GREAT, with world class footing. It's a type of rubber floor with special carpet. Makes me want to run and jump too. LOL
Anyway, Raine is crazy for toys and we use a tug for a reward. after one private lesson in the new facility, she has quarter size 'rug burns' on all 4 legs from skidding across the surface for her toy. It doesn't seem to bother her but she was bleeding and now when I play with her at home, she gets those darn spots bleeding again.
I have seen flyball dogs with their legs wrapped. Does anyone have any suggestions how and with what to apply to her legs to keep her skin intact?
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What about vet-wrap? I know they use it on Greyhounds for lure coursing sometimes. Seems like it would work. <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Wendy Lefebvre Webboard User Reg: 12-08-2005
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hmmmm, i wonder if those would work for me.
Tucker is a definite slider when he's going for the ball and in the winter when the grounds frozen the pads at the top of his front legs (the ones half way up by the dew claw) get torn and bleed.
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Cindy,
I use Polo Wraps on my slider. I used my wore out ones from my horses and cut them down to fit the dog and attached velcro tabs.
He tends to rip up his pads up near the "carpus" or wrist. This helps quite a little.
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Yep, buy rolls of VetWrap -- it's adhesive stretch bandaging we put on sighthounds to protect their legs from cuts while hunting at field trials (that should do the trick).
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Wendy,
You can get Vet-Wrap at your local vet clinic. Our ACE Hardware store sells it also since they have livestock supplies and also any feed store/farm and ranch store should carry it.
Be careful not to wrap it too tight to begin with as it will tighten up as the animal moves and could cut off circulation. It is trial and error at first really.
It will slide and move if it is too loose and you will notice swelling if it is too tight.
Until The Tale of the Lioness is told, the Story will Always Glorfy the Hunter
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Oh yeah, the reason I use the polo wraps is because vet-wrap can be spendy. I am lucky enough to have a friend that works at 3M and she can get it at the company store for .50 cents a roll which is really cheap.
I save my vet-wrap for emergencies and wrapping wounds when needed.
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