Blown out pads...help!

[bearpaw]

Our hounds will sometimes run 10 to 20 miles on a hunt and we have found tufffoot or blukote to work wonders on dog's feet, you can get it at many hound hunting supply businesses, check with Double U, one of our forum sponsors located near Yacolt, WA, I bet Buddy can send some up tomorrow to you.

http://www.dusupply.com/dog-supplies/supplies/first-aid.html

[10Key]

Here is a shot of the worst one. We uncovered it and cleaned them with epsom salts and left them dry. He is licking them on occasion.

[bearpaw]

Happens all the time with hounds, even worse than yours looks, get some of the stuff I mentioned. Use it before you hunt too, it will toughen up the pads so they don't tear them up so bad. 

[benbo30]

Our hounds will sometimes run 10 to 20 miles on a hunt and we have found tufffoot or blukote to work wonders on dog's feet, you can get it at many hound hunting supply businesses, check with Double U, one of our forum sponsors located near Yacolt, WA, I bet Buddy can send some up tomorrow to you.

http://www.dusupply.com/dog-supplies/supplies/first-aid.html

since you use the tuf foot is it a spray ?? im thinking about ordering it up for my dogs as we will doing some shed hunting and putting some miles on our feets here soon ..

[Mudman]

Dont use bag balm on open wounds!!!!  JEEZ!!!  BLEACH on wounds??  Are you kidding?  Pour bleach on your wounds!!!  Warm water, epsom salt ok too.  Clean use neosporin type creams.  Telfapad is nonstick bandage for this.  Keep clean and sterile and allow healing.  Bag balm on open wound makes it worse. 

[benbo30]

Dont use bag balm on open wounds!!!!  JEEZ!!!  BLEACH on wounds??  Are you kidding?  Pour bleach on your wounds!!!  Warm water, epsom salt ok too.  Clean use neosporin type creams.  Telfapad is nonstick bandage for this.  Keep clean and sterile and allow healing.  Bag balm on open wound makes it worse.

how does bag balm on a cut or open wound make it worse , seem to work on my dog just fine , needless to say i use it on cuts on my self as well

[runamuk]

blue kote is good stuff on horse feet

bag balm is essentially vaseline and a sulfa based antibiotic

do research is my suggestion

[AspenBud]

Don't bother wrapping the wound. You'll just create a nice place to invite infection if you do. Let it air out and nothing outside of being in the yard for exercise until your dog's gait is back to normal.

Tuff foot works alright. Though honestly nothing beats feet toughened through use. If you don't road your dog, consider it. You can do a poor man's version with a bike if you don't have a quad and land.

[jetjockey]

Roading is a great way to toughen pads, but you still have to be careful.  I road, and hunt my Brittany 3-4 times a week.  My roading "rig" consists of a POS Murray mountain bike with the Springer attachment.  I've been roading her on pavement in my neighborhood since she came home in early December.  Her average run is 7 miles at 12 MPH.  Last Thursday I noticed a small spot on one pad that was getting raw.  It wasn't bad enough to worry about, and I hunted her Saturday, but now I've got a pair of boots coming from Gun Dog Supply anyways.  I'm going to alternate her roading with boots and not with boots to keep her pads tough, but not over do it.

10-Key.  Look into a product called Granulex.  It's gods gift to hunting dogs.  It's a spray that aids in healing and should be in everyone's first aid kits.  I've used it several times, and it WORKS!! 

[10Key]

Thanks all for the tips! Woke up this morning and the pad stopped weeping and it looks to be hardening up. We planned on hunting this weekend, but we may have ended our season on Saturday...Dogs health first!

[Mudman]

blue kote is good stuff on horse feet

bag balm is essentially vaseline and a sulfa based antibiotic

do research is my suggestion

I did.  This is professional Vet. care advice.  My wife deals with this alot.  Bag balm is not good for open wounds and can slow healing and sometimes promote infection.  It can be good for other uses however. Not open wounds. 

[10Key]

Have kept the pad dry and uncovered. We've also kept the dog inactive. I think it is looking pretty good after only 48 hours:

[jackmaster]

BLUKOTE, you can get it at any feedstore, not sure if i spelled it right, but thats what we always used on are hounds when they tore up a pad  good luck