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It's the tannins in hemlock Budd, tannic acid is also synthetically produced and you can buy it easy enough.

tannins are produced by many plants and trees.. Budd you want a short cut to alot of tannic acid.. the green fleshy stuff around a black walnut is loaded.

i now that i have used 2 different things to make their feet heal and be tuff. i use tuff foot and it works good. i also use pickele juice in a jar that works good. i sock there feet in that for about 2 min. that was told to a friend from an old timer that hunts like 6 days a week and he never has a problem real with his dogs feet. u can try one of them. i had a dog get a big cut across his pad and i pud his foot in it and it heald in like 3 or 4 days with not having to do anything in it. i have used both and been happy

My friends Bluetick bleeds around his toenails everytime we go out. I dont know if it started when we got that little bit of crust or what but now they bleed even when we were just walking him threw the snow yesterday. He doesnt bleed at home on the chain so it's a bit odd that he would in the powder snow.

We were at camp hunting with an ole'timey lion hunter friend of ours and this topic came up.

Synopsis of his opinions and ours:

poor feet are a product of genetics, poor conditioning and the hounds' way of travel (i.e., light as a feather on its feet vs. plow horse heavy) , and substrate being hunted on

the causal weight of any of these factors can vary and cannot be attributed to any one thing at any time but is a combination of all

a product that may work is a product used to treat thrush in horses and mules, this product is Kopertox. We have used it but not enough to give an opinion of whether there was a benefit. We do lean to the side that there would be a benefit as it works to not only kill bacteria associated with the thrush but to decrease blood flow to the area. A decrease in blood flow to the area of the pad and below to us translate into a tougher pad and skin around the pad

If you are going to use pad tough or tuffpad products , look at the ingredients and you will see that they are mainly alcohol. Save yourslf some money and go buy straight alcohol instead.

We have also heard of a recipe using tannic acid but could never talk the guy that had the recipe into giving it to us. If someone has a recipe and would like to send it to us it would go right into the old King Edward cigar box with all the other trade secrets ha ha.

Someone mentioned their hound having problem with bleeding around the toes. We have only seen this due to too long of toe nails and hunting in crusty snow. We hunt in the snow maybe 1 day a year but have been in it enough over the years to have the opinion that if a hound is hunted in crusty snow day in and day out it is bound to get its feet cut. Just goes with hunting in those conditions.

Try Kopertox and see if may work for you.

Good luck.

In my not too humble of an opinion, you can just stop right here and you will find your answer.

poor feet are a product of genetics, poor conditioning and the hounds' way of travel (i.e., light as a feather on its feet vs. plow horse heavy) , and substrate being hunted on

the causal weight of any of these factors can vary and cannot be attributed to any one thing at any time but is a combination of all


It is what it is and you aint gonna change what the good Lord gave em.