my BF's bulldogge has been biking lately to work on is endurance(he is crated unless training, and though is ripped as all get out(genetics, mostly), he has TERRIBLE endurance). anyway, the dog is only running 2 blocks at the most, and this has been increased from down the block and back a week and a half ago, and he has a horribly blistered pad.
just noticed today, he was limping, we checked out the foot, and its way up in the center pad. I cleaned it, put triple anitbiotic ointment on it, and vet taped a cotton sock to his foot.
we thought we were taking it slow enough, its only 2 blocks. and we had been checking his feet after runs, just to be sure, this was way up in the pad, i guess we missed it.
so im wondering, those pad creams, and bag balm, they seem like they would be soothing, but wouldn't it be counter productive, making the pads too soft??
but wouldn't lotions/creams/balm make the pads super soft?? like, i know people say it works, im sure it would, im just confused as to how, since it makes the feet softer, it would seem like it would make them more likely to get torn up on the road.
Yeah, I think most of those moisturizers could do that. It is why I don't let the dogs run on a wet road.
Tuf-Foot is a liquid that literally toughens the pad up. Kinda like tannin does to animal hide to turn it in to leather. Over time it builds up a tougher, thicker pad that is almost callus like. It is great for dogs running on roads.
that makes sense.
i have been told by a BUNCH of people to use bag balm, and the like.
thats why i was confused, didn't realise the tuf-foot wasn't a similar product
My dog recently cut his paw on broken glass (I didn't see it as we have to walk at night right now as its reached 117 degrees during the day and was still over 105 at 9 p.m., miserable...) I was wondering if you have used bag balm on your dog and does your dog lick it? Luckily Teddee's cut was superficial and did not go all the way through the paw and did not bleed but it did split it. I have been cleaning it and I put neosporin on it for the first couple of days, but my dog has a tendency to lick anything you put on him. Does your dog lick the bag balm or does it have any kind of bitter fragrance? Usually I have to surround a cut or anything that I put neosporin on with something like liquid bandage which has bitters in it to prevent him for licking.
This is another time I recommend either EMT gel or spray which is horribly bitter.
It forms a protective coating and helps stuff to heal really quickly. I don't think it will help toughen the pads, but it will make the owies feel much better much more quickly.
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