Paws - Page 2

Hello Ibriham.  This ;is a nice subject, one a lot more important than most give it credit.  The splayed feet are the results of poor ligamnts and/or poor muscles.  If these are poor they will become tired and sore and even in some instances injured.  Of course if this happens the dog will soon find himself a nice shady tree and lie down to rest.  As an experiment, try this.  Stand straight up on your feet.  You can probably stand for ;hours.  Now lean forward until you can just barely maintain your balance.  You will not be able to maintain this position very long and your legs and feet will become tired very quickly.  All this is the result of thetoes an feet being out of balance in the case of splayed feet.
If one meditates on this problem one can understand the importance of balance.  Once this concept is understood, one can begiin to ;understand the value of balance in other areas of the dog and help in understanding the dynamics of movement in the dog.l
RedSable, your long-time breeder who stated that the feet were the foundation of the dog was absolutely correct.   ecs

What is the saying, "A dog doesn't stand on it's head." ? Anyway, nice feet on a dog are important to me. Even if they didn't happen to matter in the equation,  I would still hate bad feet. It's one of those things, an idiosyncrasy I guess. An otherwise "perfect" dog would turn me off if his/her feet were splayed.