imy Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Radar has one... time for surgery probably (I'll get his teeth scrubbed at the same time) Does anyone else have any information about them? Has anyone had a grey with them? I feel awful. He's had it for a while now and although he's been to the vet about a constant limp, we put it down to an old racing injury. I'm thinking I'll need to gather all the info I can and TAKE it to the vets since they didn't pick it up. Its a greyhound (and possibly lurcher) problem so I guess a vet 5 1/2 hours from any city wouldn't come across it much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisovar Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 They don't normally require surgery as such, as most can be simply kept rasped/filed smooth, which stops the pressure, you do need to keep doing it however, or they can be shelled out by the Vet, normally no anaesthesia required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytmate Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 We had one that had the corn dug out by the vet. It left a permanent hole in the pad. Ok while it was clean, but it would fill up with little rocks and things and cause a fair amount of discomfort. We bought little boots for him, which he would wear happily. I am not sure if the lady who has him now is still using them. The dog, Omo, doesn't really like going for many walks. Omo and his moon boots More recently we had another dog, Tempis, that appeared to have a corn causing her to limp. We had it X-rayed, and it was found that the toe had been broken in the past, and the end of the bone was causing the problem. We had the toe removed, and now she walks properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imy Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 (edited) Thanks for the replies! Ray is fine on the dirt and grass.. doesn't much like walking long distances on asphalt or gravel(but nor do I!) Since doing some research, I've found some info about them thar corns. Many people use different techniques to get rid of them. One is using common wart paint but I'd feel a bit nervous about doing this as the pad has lots of 'hair' bits (you know the weird skin that makes up the pad?) and I'd think the wart paint would seep into those and burn skin which isn't supposed to be burnt. Not only that, he'd definitely find a way to lick it, no matter what I wrapped it in! There is another option but I'd feel a bit weird about doing it. My OH does AI on cows and there is always liquid nitrogen around. He's burnt his own warts off and a papaloma on my foot! I'd just feel a bit cruel doing it to a dog... not that he'd feel any soreness until later... but then, I'd think he'd feel the anaesthetic and surgery wound if I had it done professionally too! Probably more-so than a little dot of a nirtogen burn. What to do, what to do!? Its only quite small and on the far left toe on his left foot... right on the edge. Opinions??? ETA: I dunno what a 'left-right' foot is... but I wrote it! Edited February 18, 2008 by imy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytmate Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Vets do use liquid nitrogen to remove little growths on dogs. A vet used it on one of our other dogs. Can't remember why though. Too many dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytmate Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 on the far left toe on his left right foot... right on the edge. Would that be the rear hind foot or the front right hand left foot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imy Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Ya, I was editing it when you wrote your message... dunno what I was thinking... just not with it at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kangaroo dog Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 odd, never heard of greyhounds getting corns? do you run him much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imy Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Nope... only what he likes doing in the yard. Apparently its a greyhound only thing (maybe grey x or lurchers) but its more like a papaloma or wart than a hardened-over-time kinda corn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greypaws Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Imy there was an article on one of the cg magazines http://www.adopt-a-greyhound.org/cgmagazine/back-issues.html Summer 2007 about treating corns. I have that one lying around somewhere, I could scan the article for you if you need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imy Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Thanks Layka! It should be okay for now though. Someone I know is getting their dog's corn hulled today so I'm waiting to find out how it went before I do anything. I don't want to be messing with his foot until I know more about how the vets do it so I can print out the info for my vet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kangaroo dog Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 if you get it fixed, try and get him out running on some different ground, like i said never heard of it happening to these type of dogs, but then i only know of racers and working sighthounds who run all sorts of terrain eg kangaroo dogs and staghounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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