Corns?

[Clodagh]

Tawny has terrible feet. If she was a horse she would be a nightmare. She is bad enough as a dog.
She has been intermittently lame on her off fore for a few days, but finally recovered in time to go shooting on Friday. She is now hopping. She is prone to cracked feet, but looking at all of them it seems quite natural to have small cracks, hers are just bigger.
I now wonder if she has a corn? I don't know if you can see from these photos. I can go to the vet, or I wonder if I could bung corn plasters on...

 

[Clodagh]

Or is it just a scuff?
It does look a bit like this:
https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/health/treating-your-dogs-corns-and-warts/

 

[CorvusCorax]

My dog gets what I call 'trench foot' and has had it on and off for years, he gets sores or lesions between and under his toes, not the actual pad, which are very painful on grass. I finally started to be able to manage them with observation and wound powder and a variety of barrier creams, but his most recent bout, he was licking and licking and the front paw became infected and he managed to take a piece off his pad, that cleared up and he is now attacking behind his dew claw instead. The skin above the toe and the pad itself on Tawny does look a bit pink/raw compared to my own dogs?

Other things I have used are Mother Bee, Hibiscrub, Leucillin, colloidal silver.
I have been breaking my heart over the dew claw but someone suggested manuka honey and covering it so he can't lick it off....I had been wrapping it anyway with the powder and it was still red raw and bloody when washed. I took the wrap off after one day of putting the honey on it and the wound has looked better than it has done in days. I don't know about the practicalities of actually putting it on a pad though!

I agree that it's a nightmare though, my older dog is as tough as old boots and grew up running around on forestry tracks and up mountains, he's much more straightforward!

 

[Blazingsaddles]

Corns tend to look slightly raised, small and round with a hardened surface. They don’t appear as cracks. The lameness is generally not intermittent. I can see a purplish area - is that what you’re referring to?

 

[Clodagh]

I am pleased to hear she is not alone in chronic unsoundness. Tany does have dark pink skin on her feet, which I never really thought about (being the only non black in the house!) but now you say that, and looking at Ffee's you are right, they are much darker. There must be an underlying issue.
Today she is sound again, and I can hardly see that mark, weird. Shooting tomorrow, I will take her but only use her as emergency back up.
I haven't tried Leucillin or collodial silver, so will give them a go aswell.
Thank you for replying!

 

[Clodagh]

Corns tend to look slightly raised, small and round with a hardened surface. They don’t appear as cracks. The lameness is generally not intermittent. I can see a purplish area - is that what you’re referring to?

It is, yes. I think it must be a scrape rather than a corn, but I am clutching at straws here. I had never even thought that dogs could get corns!

 

[Blazingsaddles]

It is, yes. I think it must be a scrape rather than a corn, but I am clutching at straws here. I had never even thought that dogs could get corns!

Yes dogs can get corns. Generally sighthounds/lurchers etc and bizarrely Shetland Sheepdogs. My first Whippet had his dug out. They form like a parsnip shape. One of my MILs lurchers had its toe completely removed to get rid of the blasted thing! Have you doubly checked there’s nothing in it?

 

[Clodagh]

Yes dogs can get corns. Generally sighthounds/lurchers etc and bizarrely Shetland Sheepdogs. My first Whippet had his dug out. They form like a parsnip shape. One of my MILs lurchers had its toe completely removed to get rid of the blasted thing! Have you doubly checked there’s nothing in it?

Doubly, triply and quadrupley. She did have a blackthorn in her foot a week or so ago and maybe it is the last bits of issues from that? She usually is lame though, it just looks different this time.

 

[Clodagh]

Yes dogs can get corns. Generally sighthounds/lurchers etc and bizarrely Shetland Sheepdogs. My first Whippet had his dug out. They form like a parsnip shape. One of my MILs lurchers had its toe completely removed to get rid of the blasted thing!?

Gross!

 

[Blazingsaddles]

Doubly, triply and quadrupley. She did have a blackthorn in her foot a week or so ago and maybe it is the last bits of issues from that? She usually is lame though, it just looks different this time.

Blackthorns are the devil and very painful. Is is sore if you press the pad?

 

[Clodagh]

Blackthorns are the devil and very painful. Is is sore if you press the pad?

It is hard to tell as I spend so much time messing with her feet she just stands and rolls her eyes. She is also a stoic sort of dog. But no on the whole I don't think so. The thorn went in one side and out the other, but came out all in one and she has had many happy hours standing in warm hibiscrub since then.

 

[paisley]

I would be going with a bit of left over blackthorn gubbins (official term!)
Friends whippet has chronic corns, and has to wear boots, can't go on any gravel or hard surface- had several dug out, she usually deals with the early ones with a foot file. He has had some sort of gel filler injected to his pads, and that seems to have helped. He has got very upright paws so I imagine its always like walking on tiptoes for him.

 

[Clodagh]

Well she was sound by Wednesday and we went shooting, with Pen as back up so she did less work. All fine, sound on Thursday.
Shooting again Saturday and she did two drives, not really a lot of work, and then stopped for elevenses. Her hind feet (never a problem before) were bleeding, so that was her out for the rest of the day.
She is still very sore behind today so we are shortly off to the vets where hopefully he will have a magical cure.

On the plus side Ffee came out for a couple of drives, to stand way back and just see what was happening and she was great, very calm and interested but not at all bothered. She was fine with all the other dogs, just not interested, which is a relief after my appallingly slack socialisation programme. I wonder if she could start full time work at 10 months old? (I know the answer is no!).