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Does anybody have any advice they could give me to help get rid of flat foot in a dog, actually its a pup. ive tried vitamins and i feed her purina puppy chow.

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The 1st ingredient of Purina Puppy chow is corn which is hard to digest. IMO Purina Dog Chow and Puppy Chow is junk.

The 1st thing I'd do is change the dogs food and put her on a higher quality meat based feed.

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What dog foods do you suggest?

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diamond chicken and rice, and if its on concrete take it off and put it on dirt. good luck.

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It would help a lot if I could see a pic of the pup, Some dogs have flat feet, it's just the way they are. if your pup has long toe nails then you should keep them cut, that can help!! if you have them on concrete then you should put it on the ground it's better for the pups feet! Another thing that you could do is run the pup, we (when we have a pup) normally run them once they are 5 months old start running them that will help with tightening up their feet!!

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IT ain't got nothing to do with the feed. I'll tell ya that. Genetics is most likely the cause.

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Diamond puppy food for large breed puppies and no corn in it.

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Corn corn corn. That's the answer to everything now that it's popular to be on the groupie thing against it. How the first dogs ever got to be coondogs I'll never know, with that reasoning. Everything from giving out to skin alergies and now flat feet.

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If the pup has flat feet now it will have flat feet when it dies. Nothing you can do will change what the pup was born with.
It's nice to see good feet on a dog but not all dogs have good feet. It won't affect the dogs ability to tree coon. Might be the best dog around who knows.

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How old is your puppy? Every puppy but one that I've raised has gone through at least one phase where their feet went flat. Two littermate blueticks I raised had me worried in about the 3-5 month age range, but I knew they had the genetics behind them to have good feet. Around 6 months old they straightened out and now have excellent feet for large male dogs. All of my young dogs have been raised on dirt except for one...however, the one that spent the first 3-4 months of her life on concrete was the one that never went through the flat footed phase. I haven't seen the footing have an effect either way.

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Is this post about dog food or flat feet????? It seems to have turned into one about feed, that is not the post is about.

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I had a flat footed dog years ago. I mean like a DUCK. it was SEVERE. You would have to see it to believe it. This dog was also one of the worst slick treeing idiots I have ever saw. He couldn't tree a coon in a 2 acre fenced enclosure. But a out of this world tree dog. I wonder sometimes if he didn't finish the track cause his feet hurt. lol

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its not the feed or the concrete. like said before, if they have flat feet....they just have flat feet. thats like saying that if a kid is born flat footed don't give him corn and dont let him walk on anything hard. this is almost funny. genetics period. ive been hunting for a long time and i don't have a clue how we raised dogs back then on the feed we had lol. i care for my dogs and try to give them the best feed and enviroment that i can. but in the end they are just dogs......some good, some bad, but all are dogs.

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dont give them calcium tablets, that makes their bones grow too fast, give it a large breed puppy food that doesnt have corn as a first ingrediet, i really like Native Level 3 Puppy but it's all based on opinion and it is very well possible that your pup's flat feet are either because of genitics or it may just be going thru that phase

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Once ya get it in your breeding program, it takes alot of time to get rid of it if ya ever do, if your line breeding! Even an outcross at times will not give ya good results. Seen alot over the years! Definately a genetic trait!! Quack! Quack!! LOL

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I got one flat foot and one arched foot. They used to both be flat, but I broke one and put my good arch-support boot on the next day and went to work and the next and the next and it healed with an arch in it. Maybe that would work for your pup break the feet and make him wear boots til they're healed...just kidding but as said before, it's all about genetics.

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after doing some research, its common for puppies to go through a flat footed stage when teething. Giving vitamin C helps. food really has nothing to do with it, its not always from genetics. the ground theyre on does have an impact...mud is awful on feet. once they get flat footed it is nearly impossible to fix, but even flat footed dogs can tree coons...just not that pretty on a bench. never actually cured the flat footedness, but its helped alot. i also now have to cut and file toenails or the feet get bad again.

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I used to have an english female who was very flat footed while standing but came up good and had beautiful feet when moving. I also agree that it's mostly genetics.

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Hey l.lyle - it could even be one from my line, as they was bred for riverbottoms and sloughs ! Found out if you have a dog that climbs, those big ol' spread out feet might be what brings him down alive .... he might snap a few nails walking down, but they grow back pretty fast. I never knew of them slowing the dogs down, did help them crossing muddy fields, as they ran on top the mud where the tight footed dogs sunk into the mud . I have seen a few coons caught crossing wet fields while the cat footed dogs fell back, the flat footed ones were gaining ground.

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ive always heard walking them on gravel a few times a week would help their feet tighten up but i agree with alot of people, some of the flat footed dogs turn into the best ones

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