Continuously tearing paw pads
We live in Chicago so it's unreasonable to avoid concrete. The dog parks are all cement or asphalt and she runs around on rough sand on the beach. I don't want to have to avoid these areas. I want to use booties as a last resort, but does anyone have any other suggestions? Can i just liquid bandage her paws preemptively? |
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HeatherRWM wrote: Marley, our Wheaten, tears a paw pad every other week it seems. Right now she has three little tears. When she gets the tears we clean them daily and put bow wow butter balm (http://www.funnyfur.com/bowwowbutterbalm.aspx) It tends to do this trick after a few days, but then inevitably they just tear again! We live in Chicago so it's unreasonable to avoid concrete. The dog parks are all cement or asphalt and she runs around on rough sand on the beach. I don't want to have to avoid these areas. I want to use booties as a last resort, but does anyone have any other suggestions? Can i just liquid bandage her paws preemptively? There are products out there that are a spray on, and leave a protective barrier on the pad. I have one at home (and I'm at work) - and it comes in many brands of the same type ingredients. We (that cart and sled) use them sometimes if we are concerned about rough terrain, or if we have logged a lot of miles in a short time, and feel the pads may have thinned down to much. We feel the pads, and if they feel thin (smooth and soft), we use the spray. They have a certain smell - not too unlike the skin glues/liquid bandages. On a related thought, my MIL was a rural letter carrier, and her right hand took a beating with all the mail handling, opening and shutting mailboxes, and being exposed to the weather for hours and hours, 6 days a week. She had trouble with her fingers cracking, and used the skin glue preventatively, as well as to hold together existing cracks. She swore by it. |
| What kind do you use? I'm going to definitely use them preemptively now. I just worry that it's a short term fix. Her paws seem so thin and fragile, this is the first year that it's been happening so consistently too.. it used to only happen after irritation from salt in the winter. Poor girl gets so miserable when it happens and we have to have her on lock down :/ |
| Wondering if the balm is helping to keep the pads soft/supple rather than toughening them up. I wonder if this stuff would work... http://www.tuffoot.com/about/dogs.htm |
6Girls wrote: Wondering if the balm is helping to keep the pads soft/supple rather than toughening them up. I wonder if this stuff would work... http://www.tuffoot.com/about/dogs.htm Yep, that sounds like one of the products. I looked to see if they listed the ingredients, but it didn't. The stuff we use does stain. We have the dogs lay on their sides, and apply it to each pad and let it dry. Once it dries they can get up and run around. It is a thin liquid, then as it dries it gets tacky, then smooth and dry. Has that acetone type of smell - quiet strong. I used to get it in a bottle with a applicator in the lid.(like nail polish, but a spongy blob instead of a brush) The stuff I have now is a pump sprayer. |
| Here's a bigger picture of the bottle that was on another site. You can see the ingredients- http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/gundog_2111_44182378 I noticed that Benzoin is in there too. |
Yes - benzoin is the smelly stuff! I hate it when I can't think of a word....especially medical...   |
| ohh thanks! We're kind of in a pinch this week though, do you think human liquid bandage will do the trick? |
HeatherRWM wrote: ohh thanks! We're kind of in a pinch this week though, do you think human liquid bandage will do the trick? Heather, have you considered calling your vet? Maybe they have some on hand you could purchase. |
HeatherRWM wrote: ohh thanks! We're kind of in a pinch this week though, do you think human liquid bandage will do the trick? I had a whole reply that just deleted itself  Yes you could - but it comes in little bottles, so you would only be able to glue the cracked spots. And in a pinch, super glue or the glue for fake nails works as well.  We had a ewe who split her skin on her skull when she rammed into a tube gate. Blood everywhere! We cleaned it, appled the nail glue and pressed the flap down and held it for a few minutes. It healed perfectly - hardly a scar. I bet it stung, but hard to tell as she wasn't thrilled w/ the whole process and I'm sure it hurt like heck already. And this was before liquid bandaid stuff was available to the public - just had started using it in ER's and surgery  |
| Vets in the city are sooo expensive and with things like this I find that the forum is sometimes more helpful... so I'm trying to skip the vet this time! We have some specialty pet boutiques in the area but we're headed out of town Friday afternoon so I was hoping to just pick up something easy at the drug store for now. I'm going to order that tuff paws for the future though. Dawn, that poor Ewe! Pretty amazing that nail glue fixed that though! I was worried super glue wouldn't apply as smoothly as liquid bandage, Marley is really sensitive and probably wouldn't walk on anything that felt weird. She's a little princess, but I want her to be able to run and swim in Wisconsin this weekend. |
| There won't be as much concrete on your vacation. Do you think she will be okay until you get back? |
| Yea she will play/swim/run through anything when we're in Wisconsin. She feels no pain there and will swim for 3 days straight if we let her! We put liquid bandage on tonight before the dog beach and she is totally fine right now. I'm thinking that will hold us over for a while. |
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