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My sheep has arthritis and a sore foot. How can I relieve her pain?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Other | Unknown - Other | Female | unspayed | 11 years and 11 months old

My sheep can hardly walk as her foot is very sore. She has arthritis in her leg. Is there anything that would help her arthritis you would recommend? Please

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Answered By Kevin Sanada, DVM

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Published on February 14th, 2018

There are medications that can help with the foot rot and arthritis. The foot rot is best treated with good hoof trimming and daily soaks. Below is a link to some great information about foot rot and treatment options. http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/410/410-028/410-028.html Arthritis usually requires daily administration of an anti-inflammatory. Unfortunately, we cannot (legally and ethically) advise medication without having an established patient-doctor relationship. It is also dangerous for us to advise medication without examining Dora and fully understanding her condition and medical history. If you suspect arthritis, then I highly recommend you schedule an appointment with your veterinarian. While you may highly suspect arthritis, the vet may find something that was not previously detected and the diagnosis and treatment could be completely different than what you suspect. Also, no medication is completely safe and it's possible that Dora could have an adverse reaction to the proposed medications, which could make things much worse than they were before. For these reasons, it's always best to only give medication as directed by your veterinarian. I hope that helps and Dora gets better soon.

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    Answered By Linda G, MS, DVM

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    Published on August 16th, 2019

    Hello. No bother, If this is foot rot it can indeed be contagious. But more than likely there is some underlying issue with Annabelle that allowed this to get out of control. Perhaps something with her immune system. Goats can be pretty antsy when it comes to doing any kind of treatments, but another idea might be to soak a pad of gauze in the solution I mentioned ( & if you have no veterinarian who can supply these to you, you can try using Kopertox ) & wrap the soggy gauze to the bottom of the foot with bandage material. Change this every few days & at each change try to pare away more of the hoof as the tissue softens up. Sometimes adding injectable tetracycline will help. Just use a dose often mentioned on some of the goat sites ( we are not allowed to recommend doses on this site ). Hopefully this will help. Good luck & thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach.

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