Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Chattanooga, Tn
Posts: 22462

Now that I am too old to hunt in the nite hunts, I am considering getting back into bench showing. I have always wondered, why should a dog have "cat" feet? Bench Show people have been breeding for "cat" feet for a long time now. But why? They are dogs. Shouldn't they have dog feet?

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Registered: Jan 2013
Location: Marietta
Posts: 10790

Your red dogs look good to me. But what you don’t want is that whipet look like they are malnourished or came from Ethiopia and big ole paddle feet. I like to show a dog.


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Registered: Jan 2016
Location: Washburn, Missouri
Posts: 34

They breed for it because it calsls for it in the breed standard. All except black and tan. English doesn't specifically call for cat feet but describes it as tight.

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