My dog's paw is red, but not swollen. His nails and paw hair are growing out red too. Any ideas?

His paw has been red for a couple of weeks. The hair and nails are growing out red now too. It's not swollen or bothering him at all, but he's an american bulldog, and not much bothers him anyway. I'm giving him some anti-biotics right now from a surgery he had on his ear, but i don't think that could be the cause. Any ideas?My dog's paw is red, but not swollen. His nails and paw hair are growing out red too. Any ideas?
~ This is very common in dogs that have food allergies. A dog that has a food allergy will lick their feet a lot. The Sylvia is what turns the feet red specially on fawn or white dogs. This is very common for dogs on a wheat based diet.





What dog food are you feeding. My guess is your dog has built up an allergy to the food. Change the food immediately. Give it about 3 months, trim the nails, bath your dog every two weeks and trim the hair and see if after 3 months the feet are still turning red.





Go with foods like Innova, Orijen, Merricks, Solid Gold (barking at the moon), Go!, Wellness Core, etc.





ADD: Both foods you are feeding are horrible for dogs, they cause allergies because of all the corn, sugar, salt, by products...it is not good stuff. Go to www.naturapet.com to see where to buy quality food. This is why your dog is having problems.





   Food is the fuel of all life. The quality of the fuel directly relates to how well the body can operate. Low quality dog food, such as Beneful, Pedigree, Ol’ Roy, Purina, Eukanuba, Iams, Science Diet, etc., are filled with *empty* calories. These foods are made with keeping costs down in mind, *not* in the best interest of nutrition. When you think of healthy food, do you think of Nestle or Mars (both heavily invested in producing candy)? What about Del Monte (heavily invested in produce, especially corn…)?





   Heck, just go to Beneful’s or Pedigree’s websites, they’re full of promotions, coupons, streaming audio and video, and heart-warming catchy slogans; they know that as long as they paint a pretty picture, the “sheeple” of the world will think it must be good because they got a warm and fuzzy feeling by the advertising.





Let’s take Pup-peroni (by Del Monte), for example, a quick scan of the ingredients raises eyebrows:





   - Meat By-products – Definition: The non-rendered, clean parts, other


     than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not


     limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone,


     partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and


     intestines freed of their contents


   - Sugar – Because all dogs need sugar, right?


   - Propylene Glycol – Here’s a few uses of this chemical (from Wikipedia):


      + As the main ingredient in deodorant sticks


      + As a medical and sexual lubricant


      + As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used


        to capture ground beetles


      + As a solvent used in mixing photographic chemicals, such as film


        developers


      + In hand sanitizers, antibacterial lotions, and saline solutions





How about Pedigree (made by M%26amp;M’s company Mars), you know ‘Really good food for dogs’:





   - First ingredient – GROUND WHOLE CORN (read, nutritionally void filler)


   - Corn Gluten Meal – This is a well-known (even patented) herbicidal agent


     used for weed control in lawns and gardens!


   - Wheat Mill Run – Definition: Commonly referred to as ';floor sweepings';,


     this ingredient is nothing more than inexpensive filler with little or


     no nutritional value.


   - Chicken by-product meal: Consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts


     of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped


     eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as


     might occur unavoidable in good processing practice. Chicken by-product


     costs less than chicken muscle meat and lacks the digestibility of


     chicken muscle meat.





Chemical additives aside, let’s analyze the recommended serving size between Pedigree and a quality food like Orijen. Being that Pedigree is mostly fillers, your poor dog has to eat so much more just to get the calories to survive when compared to a quality food that actually contains real meat. You ready?





    Pedigree (50-75lb. dog): 4 to 5-1/3 cups a day


    Orijen (45-75lb. dog): 1-3/4 to 2-1/2 cups a day!





   Orijen costs more, but you feed less, AND the quality is superb. Just look at the difference in the ingredients and it’s painfully obvious which is a quality food.





Pedigree: GROUND WHOLE CORN, MEAT AND BONE MEAL, GROUND WHEAT, CORN GLUTEN MEAL, ANIMAL FAT (PRESERVED WITH BHA/BHT), WHEAT MILL RUN, WHEAT FLOUR, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, CARAMEL COLOR, CHICKEN BY-PRODUCT MEAL, RICE, VEGETABLE OIL (SOURCE OF LINOLEIC ACID), VITAMINS (CHOLINE CHLORIDE, dl-ALPHA TOCOPHEROL ACETATE [SOURCE OF VITAMIN E], L-ASCORBYL-2-POLYPHOSPHATE [SOURCE OF VITAMIN C*], VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENT, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], BIOTIN, d-CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, RIBOFLAVIN SUPPLEMENT [VITAMIN B2], VITAMIN D3 SUPPLEMENT, VITAMIN B12 SUPPLEMENT), MINERALS (ZINC SULFATE, ZINC PROTEINATE, COPPER SULFATE, COPPER PROTEINATE, MANGANESE PROTEINATE, POTASSIUM IODIDE), ADDED FD%26amp;C AND LAKE COLORS (YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5, BLUE 2, RED 40)





Orijen: Deboned chicken, chicken meal, turkey meal, russet potato, lake whitefish, chicken fat, sweet potato, whole eggs, turkey, salmon meal, salmon and anchovy oils, salmon, natural chicken flavour, sunflower oil, sun-cured alfalfa, dried brown kelp, carrots, spinach, peas, tomatoes, apples, psyllium, dulse, glucosamine Hcl, cranberries, black currants, rosemary extract, chondroitin sulfate, sea salt.





You can apply this same analogy TO EVERY SINGLE PET FOOD IN THE GROCERY / CHAIN PET STORES!





NEWS FLASH: Science Diet is crap food too! Yes, your vet makes *MONEY* by selling it, not to mention a SIGNIFICANT number of veterinary school programs ARE FUNDED by Hill’s!


There is nothing scientific about their “diet”. The science they use is how to make a profit.





Quality foods: Innova, California Natural, EVO, Karma-www.naturapet.com, Wellness, Wellness Core, Orijen-www.orijen.ca, Canidae, Merricks, Artemis, Taste of the Wild, Nature's Variety, Solid Gold-Barking at the Moon, Go!, Now! Canidae- www.canidae.com, Eagle Pack Holistic Chicken (avoid regular Eagle Pack)and Timberwolf.





Current pet food regulations allow manufacturers to use ingredients that you would never knowingly give to your pet. In fact, you may be shocked to learn what some brands of pet food really contain. For example: the use of by-products (feet, bones and intestines, etc.), the 5 Ds, (dead, dying, diseased, decayed, drugged), chemical preservatives (BHA and BHT) and grains that are often difficult to digest (corn, wheat, gluten and soy), which are often used as a protein source instead of meat.








These last grains are what cause most pets to have allergies. Corn based allergens fed into your pet that you did not know about.





I was shocked and disgusted when I first learned about how most all commercially processed dog foods are made and their ingredients. I became an educated consumer wanting the best for my dogs. They say the most dangerous woman in the world is an educated dog mother. How true!








That is why I will never feed any brand name dog food from Pedigree, Purina, Eukanuba, Iams, Ol'Roy, Beneful, Diamond, Nutro etc. ever again.





They are made with dangerous ingredients and deadly additives that are literally bringing our dogs to an early and painful death.








Have you looked at the ingredients on Pedigree and Purina?My dog's paw is red, but not swollen. His nails and paw hair are growing out red too. Any ideas?
Well, in all honesty, if your skin on your feet suddenly turned red, and your nails and hair started growing out a crimson color, would you not be at a doctor already?





Animals need and have doctors too, they're called vets.





Give yours a call.
Well I think I would check with a vet, it doesn't sound too normal. Why wait for something bad to come out of it. It has been two wks.
he may have internal bleeding, a bug bit, or tissue damage.


Hope This Helps! :D
is it bleeding if so allergies. if he is licking it get a cone sadly
it sounds like he might have an absess, have it checked out.
That is red yeast due to a food allergy. Very common in most bully breeds. He also may be allergic to grass, especially cut grass. Like my above poster said get him on a better food. Dyes can also be an allergen and the 2 foods you give him have tons of it. I breed bulldogs and I feed foods free of corn, wheat, and beef. These are the things that set off the allergies. I am sure your dog has a lot of white and this results in very sensitive skin. Not unlike fair haired and skinned humans. I personally feed Evo but natural balance has a good allergy formula. What you need to do is find a food that has one protein and one carb (grain such as brown rice, quinoa, etc) keep it low residue which means low in fillers. From here you can hopefully find the culprit. I would add food you eat to it like shredded apples, bananas, carrots, cottage cheese. This of course is slowly as you need to find out what is. The other thing with the nails being red he could be walking funny on them. Some times my mama will have red nails almost like they look to be bleeding but she ran funny and stubbed it somehow. That goes away. If you don't clip his nails take him to have it done at least every 4-3 weeks keep them short as that is a big amount of weight on those feet, LOL. If is is red yeast it should go away or slow down with the antibiotic. Good luck with your big lover!