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Just wondering if any of you guys have noticed certain lines of running dogs or tree dogs or mixed that have abnormally tuff feet. I'm talking dogs that can run on bad snow day after day and there feet are still decent. Maybe they aren't out there. Just curious.

my redbone cur mix has really tough feet and doesnt seem to have an issue with worn down pads

pocahontas plotts

Triggs have some pretty tough feet. I can see they have a tighter foot than most. Might be the running dog in them?

yeah any running dog seems to be decent, sounds kind of dumb but a pair of hunting dog booties may have todo

When I ran tree hounds on coyotes, their feet did not hold up well. When I switch to foxhounds, I have never had sore feet.

don't know anything abt a tree dogs feet how they hold up, in the running dog world over the years I have seen some tough feet , and some not so tough, I have seen the black pads on dogs never get run off , but have seen the white pads on some get tore up everytime he goes, had a bitch one time couldn't keep the pads on her, she had white looking pads , but I know both will get run off, had a old man one time tell me to soak them in , see if I can spell this right, inbalming fluid what the undertaker puts in dead people, he said get them well and soak them everyday, said it will make them harden up, did it and never ran them off again ! haven't ever used it again cause quit running in the pens , and changed dogs , no more of that blood was real fast for 3 hrs and then quit

I agree with you southern fox color of pads does make a difference. The inbalming fluid idea is interesting. NYCOYOTEHOUNDS you don't ever have problems with there feet on real hard crusty snow?

every dogs different, I had fox hounds there feet where bad, one my bluetics got bad feet and one her pups I raised feet never hurt or bleed, redbones seem have good feet, I know the bear hunters around here complain about treeing walkers feet alot

Most all of our crossed up family grade hounds that have been used for decades in the southwest for lions have good feet. We rin on a lot of rough rock and even volcanic lava and this can eat the soles right off your boots. Dogs that were used a lot were culled hard for this factor. If they are laying in camp licking their fit you can't catch game with them. Some of the guys in southern Arizona will not hunt a dog until his feet are hard enough to strike a kitchen match on.

Crusty ice and snow can cut a dog higher up than the actual pad and it can make most dogs leave red tracks after a few hard days of pounding in it.

For me in the crusty snow, the pads seem to hold fine, it's on both sides of the toe nail that like to bleed. Seems once it's broke open, they will bleed the rest of the winter even after a short run. I've got a lot of mixed up bred dogs but the plott seems to hold up better than the rest.

No problems on the crust. The treehounds would have their feet tore up bad.

Well maybe I should say have you guys ever seen white pads or multi color pads that held up good in dry, dirt conditions or crusty snow or like Mike pointed out sometimes the blood is from Higher up the leg. So maybe is there a line of thicker skinned hounds out there or is the dark pigment the real deal? NYCOYOTEHOUNDS would lines of running dogs are you using. Can they run day in and day out? Thanks

OK I will start a shit storm with this but whatever. The French crossed goswick hounds I've hunted have the thickest tuffest pads I've ever seen. Not every one but the ones that have a inch thick pad and look like they have boot soles glued to their feet can and do travel at speed in rock or thorns and they take less conditioning after the summer to be ready again then the other lines. It probably has more to do with the extra distance from the ground to their hairline,webs or nails then the actual pad being any tuffer but they don't wear slick spots through their pads either.

My hounds go back to the Raider-Hagin and Rosehaven line. Percys Flower.Some pinedale and Clown. If anyone has ever run in Canada on the shale rock, you know they need tough feet. These hounds are crossed up with some southern hounds that run on the tough dry sandy conditions. These dogs run every day.