Lucy is extremely hare-footed-feet are at least twice as long as they are wide, mildly soft pasterns, and luxating patellas.
Right now we mostly concentrate on ditch walking, soft grass walking, some woods, and some chip and seal to help build muscles as much as possible. Hopefully, she holds up and can at least get up to two or three miles by next year without falling on her face.
(which she doesn't do as much now as she did when I first got her).
Tracking is for fun, but I would like to do it right, so maybe my next dog....
any ideas if these conditions will prevent her from being able to have a reasonable chance at decent tracking?
is she actually hare-footed, or really down in the pasterns.
Tripp is harefooted, but the whole breed is(as well as most sighthounds). harefoodedness alone shouldn't be an issue.
the pasterns being soft(or low) shouldn't matter, if you are walking on soft surfaces to begin with, it will get better, and you wouldn't be tracking on concrete, for example. The patellas MAY be a problem, just because she would have to keep her nose to the ground, bending at an angle that may impact them, and that may not even be a real issue, its just the only thing i can think of that would matter.
do check with your vet to be sure. tracking in and of itself won't be a problem, the constant nose to the ground might...
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Healthy enough to track?
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