He was checked by a vet experienced with greyhounds, who could not find the cause of the limp, but was not concerned with it as it didn't seem to bother Rye at all. When asked how Rye could race with a wart, the trainer explained that he just shaved it regularly, and Rye could run as fast as any hound. Well, that set off a quest for wart information. We'd never heard of this and wanted to know more. Here are the results of our research.
Warts are more common than scar tissue.
The virus is inoculated into the skin through a minor cut or abrasion. Hence, they are most commonly located the pad of the greyhound. A wart normally grows on the surface of the skin. However, when they occur on the pad of the foot, the normal pressure of walking pushes the growth into the deeper layers of the pad forming a white, flat, circular painful area. This is what's known as a corn.