Runaround

Hello,

I need to address the fact that 16 & 12ft corrugated pipe Foxy has from hutch -> run is doing her feet/sore hocks no good at all. I suspect it's the reason why she burst one recently!

Are there any other alternatives I.e smooth pipes, or a better idea entirely? That last I want is to be manually moving her from hutch run again, as she hates a lot of picking up hence why I did it in the first place.
At just over 8 years old, the fur has thinned on the feet which hasn't helped.

We also suspect she has a mild arthritis, or just a bit stiffer so her actual walk may be wider than we think.

Any help/advice greatly received.

Thank you


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Oh dear I used runaround without any problems at all, but if there is a sore hock issue I suppose that is the problem. I don't know of any smooth pipes available, you could ask runaround to see if they have any suggestions?

Does it need to be a pipe? Could it just be a runaround tunnel with mesh under the turf?

esupi said:

Could it just be a runaround tunnel with mesh under the turf?

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I would have thought this would work better for sore hocks.

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Could you train her to hop into a carrier to be transported to a run? It could more relaxing for her than being picked up.

Thank you all for your help, I will go to the drawling board. The animal carrier, I can try but I think she associates that a lot with the vets now!


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I can take a while to do carrier training, especially if she associates it with something negative.
It also doesn't allow her contact access to an exercise area.

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Smooth-bore tubes? If you don't need it to bend and it's not a slope, they cope quite well in one of those: if ours is too slope-y Lopsy can't get up it, it's hilarious because he proper gives us stink-eye when we drop the angle so he can make it ;p You can just hear this frantic scrabbling and then silent cursing :lol: He knows we're watching because we're laughing (and encouraging!). Hasn't happened for ages now because we've not needed to move the lawn-tubes.

Otherwise, a strip of something down the tube? Carpet or whatever? Stapled at the ends?