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I have had cause to do a great deal of note taking on blown pads. I have dogs with black pads that seemed to shuck them all the time for a while. Concrete kenneling worked wonders to toughen the pads. However, hard pads that get water logged will still run off. I have tried commercial preparations for pads, super glue, booties, and much more. The thing I have found that worked wonders for keeping pads intact was to use bag balm on them a couple times a week on concrete floor kennels. The concrete toughens them and the bag balm water proofs them. It's not about keeping the moisture in the pads, it's about keeping excess moisture OUT of the pads so they can't get waterlogged.
I do the same with horse feet. It's the wet/dry, wet/dry process that causes cracking and splitting. If you can just keep the moisture balance constant within the hoof surfaces, you have healthier feet. I am much more likely to use hoof dressing before rinsing a horse than after. The oily dressing keeps the extra water out.
Noah, if you don't kennel your dogs and still want to try the limestone, could you not put a layer of it around the dog's food and water areas? That way, they have to walk on it to get to their feed and water so you are sure they are getting some benefit each day.
Cheers!
M
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At least I'm successful at doing nothing right. I guess it could be worse.
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There is also some stuff made for dogs that you can get in I think either a nite lite catalog or coon hound catalog called pad heal... or something close to that, will have to look it up, my father in law and his buddys used it in the mountains when they were bear hunting, said the dogs could barely walk that night and after putting that stuff on the were running like crazy the next morning
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*Crazy Dog Kennels*
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