@therealjrn I have several cats that do that too…
Also this about describes the bed situation (only my bed is a twin and not a double and I don’t have a dog just cats)
Usually my dog doesn’t mind the cold but the recent frigid weather combined with the salt on the sidewalk and streets really bother her paws. We haven’t been out much.
@callow - My dog is similar except that after walking about a half block in the salted snow, he starts doing the “OH - oh my paw! I can’t walk from here” routine, and somehow winds up being carried back home.
@callow@aetris Our dogs used to get ice balls building up in the center of their pads; usually we could get them walking again by just massaging the ice out. It helped to keep the fur in their trimmed short.
We also had great luck with Musher’s Secret wax (and the dogs loved the necessary ‘foot massage’). Rub into the pads, and also coat the areas in between and in the center. For dogs that would not tolerate boots it worked really well. That worked until the last winter when the ice and snow really did present too much of an impediment; they still didn’t like being carried home though. Proud, they were.
@aetris My dog is too big for me to carry home, I just try to clean her paws off. @duodec Will the wax make her slide more on bare floors? We removed carpet from the dining room and a set of five stairs and she keeps slipping.
@aetris We never noticed any particular problems with that on floors; we have primarily tile and bamboo wood floors though and they both have a little texture to them. If anything it gave him a tiny bit more traction. The wax made him leave more noticeable pawprints for a while after application; its a soft wax.
However our stairs are carpeted and when we visited my parents place (smooth wood stairs) he definitely needed help up and down with or without the wax but he was already getting older then, and had a torn knee ligament. We wanted to get them the carpeted tread covers (for them as well since the slippery stairs worried them) but they just stopped going upstairs instead…
If you order Mushers Secret, get it in cold weather. The first jar I ordered in the summer arrived empty, and the board game and household items in the box with it were ruined from melted wax. I had to send the whole lot back.
@hchavers our dog (60 lb black lab mix) is afraid of Everything (shelter rescue, and i mean everything: box on porch left by UPS, twig in park that the end sticks up when he steps on it, … all make him jump back and cower). But we just moved to Erie PA (yes 4 feet of snow Christmas week) and he LOVES the snow: eating, running, jumping in deep drifts, until his paws hurt (or more likely we get too cold and force him in).
@hchavers Our dog is 12 according to the SPCA but the vet says they fudged his age and is more like 14. He has bad hips and arthritis. He acts like a puppy in the snow- so excited. I have to set a timer when I let him out if it’s really cold because he doesn’t come in voluntarily.
I’m pretty sure this poll was created for @sammydog01 to produce a freak out rant of some sort since the situation presented will initiate some recollection of stress.
@mehjohnson Lol, I bought the largest size of booties for Simba, mostly for commu city events in the summer when the ground is too hot. His feet were so big I had to duct tape them around the ankles to keep them on. The new guys are 25% smaller, so we’ll see if they fit better.
I’m the one with the hat, coat, and gloves, but I’m the one that first wants to go back inside, so I don’t think cold registers with her when we are out for a walk.
When we got our once-every-ten-years five-inches-of-South-Central-Texas-snow one day a couple of weeks ago, she went bonkers in the back yard, scooping up mouthfuls while on a full run, so I think she was enjoying it.
My 20 year old son made a pretty large snowman in the front yard which promptly lost its balance and fell over. But the dog enjoyed mouthfuls of snow whenever I took her out for a walk, for the four days before it had completely melted. Guess I should have got her a shaved ice machine for Christmas.
Had some little dogs. They’d cheerfully bound through snow as high as they were, until they started limping from ice forming in and around their feet. So then we’d have to grab them and melt the snowy ice with our fingers.
My wonderful dog died unexpectedly on New Years Eve a year ago. I’m still nowhere near ready to consider another one, but these kinds of posts bring me pensive warm fuzzies now.
Showing off their XXXL Christmas coats. Zephyr’ s fits a little tight but it’s the biggest I could find. Tempest loves hers. Z gets chilled pretty easily even in our warm climate. T is an endless font of energy and doesn’t mind the cold.
When we had that snow in Alabama in December, my four month old black lab loved it!
She dove into it, dug tunnels, bit it and ran around in circles and flips.
My four other dogs were not impressed and enjoyed the days in the house.
I have not had the joy of having a puppy for 19 years and she is a joy!
No dog, but the cat climbs under the covers. If I get up to go pee, he steals the warm spot.
@therealjrn I have several cats that do that too…
Also this about describes the bed situation (only my bed is a twin and not a double and I don’t have a dog just cats)
Consider yourselves lucky. If I get up in the middle of the night, the dog wants to go for a w-
Wee patrol throughout the neighborhood.
Let me in! This isn’t funny!!!
@mfladd that looks just like my baby boy when he is shaved!
THE BEST KINDA DOG… IS A CAT!
@ragingredd only if
/giphy catdog
Since he is currently shaved, he looks like Mr Rodgers w his little sweater
Usually my dog doesn’t mind the cold but the recent frigid weather combined with the salt on the sidewalk and streets really bother her paws. We haven’t been out much.
@callow - My dog is similar except that after walking about a half block in the salted snow, he starts doing the “OH - oh my paw! I can’t walk from here” routine, and somehow winds up being carried back home.
@aetris “Somehow” huh?
@callow @aetris Our dogs used to get ice balls building up in the center of their pads; usually we could get them walking again by just massaging the ice out. It helped to keep the fur in their trimmed short.
We also had great luck with Musher’s Secret wax (and the dogs loved the necessary ‘foot massage’). Rub into the pads, and also coat the areas in between and in the center. For dogs that would not tolerate boots it worked really well. That worked until the last winter when the ice and snow really did present too much of an impediment; they still didn’t like being carried home though. Proud, they were.
@aetris My dog is too big for me to carry home, I just try to clean her paws off.
@duodec Will the wax make her slide more on bare floors? We removed carpet from the dining room and a set of five stairs and she keeps slipping.
@aetris We never noticed any particular problems with that on floors; we have primarily tile and bamboo wood floors though and they both have a little texture to them. If anything it gave him a tiny bit more traction. The wax made him leave more noticeable pawprints for a while after application; its a soft wax.
However our stairs are carpeted and when we visited my parents place (smooth wood stairs) he definitely needed help up and down with or without the wax but he was already getting older then, and had a torn knee ligament. We wanted to get them the carpeted tread covers (for them as well since the slippery stairs worried them) but they just stopped going upstairs instead…
If you order Mushers Secret, get it in cold weather. The first jar I ordered in the summer arrived empty, and the board game and household items in the box with it were ruined from melted wax. I had to send the whole lot back.
Where’s the option for dogs loving the cold?
@hchavers our dog (60 lb black lab mix) is afraid of Everything (shelter rescue, and i mean everything: box on porch left by UPS, twig in park that the end sticks up when he steps on it, … all make him jump back and cower). But we just moved to Erie PA (yes 4 feet of snow Christmas week) and he LOVES the snow: eating, running, jumping in deep drifts, until his paws hurt (or more likely we get too cold and force him in).
@hchavers Our dog is 12 according to the SPCA but the vet says they fudged his age and is more like 14. He has bad hips and arthritis. He acts like a puppy in the snow- so excited. I have to set a timer when I let him out if it’s really cold because he doesn’t come in voluntarily.
I’m pretty sure this poll was created for @sammydog01 to produce a freak out rant of some sort since the situation presented will initiate some recollection of stress.
@elimanningface Did you say “Westworld marathon”?
Salt feels hurty on her foot pads.
Must walk strategically.
@cmafba
I think you can get them booties for that (which they mostly hate).
Some cities have switched to alternatives, for the sidewalks.
@cmafba
I get to install these 4-5 times a day on my pooch. She hates the process as much as i do. But without them, she will lift a paw within half a block on the city salt and ice, i’ll warm that one in my hands, sveral more steps and its another paw…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001J1WBG0/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1515349019&sr=8-13&keywords=dog%2Bbooties%2Bfor%2Blarge%2Bdogs&th=1&psc=1
@mehjohnson Lol, I bought the largest size of booties for Simba, mostly for commu city events in the summer when the ground is too hot. His feet were so big I had to duct tape them around the ankles to keep them on. The new guys are 25% smaller, so we’ll see if they fit better.
Simba on a weekend trip to the mountains with his duct taped on snow boots.
I don’t mind some dogs, though most make me uncomfortable at best.
I’m the one with the hat, coat, and gloves, but I’m the one that first wants to go back inside, so I don’t think cold registers with her when we are out for a walk.
When we got our once-every-ten-years five-inches-of-South-Central-Texas-snow one day a couple of weeks ago, she went bonkers in the back yard, scooping up mouthfuls while on a full run, so I think she was enjoying it.
My 20 year old son made a pretty large snowman in the front yard which promptly lost its balance and fell over. But the dog enjoyed mouthfuls of snow whenever I took her out for a walk, for the four days before it had completely melted. Guess I should have got her a shaved ice machine for Christmas.
My batteries handle the cold very well
@wmbarr You should try refrigerating them…
Had some little dogs. They’d cheerfully bound through snow as high as they were, until they started limping from ice forming in and around their feet. So then we’d have to grab them and melt the snowy ice with our fingers.
He turns into 5 cats
My wonderful dog died unexpectedly on New Years Eve a year ago. I’m still nowhere near ready to consider another one, but these kinds of posts bring me pensive warm fuzzies now.
Thanks y’all for sharing your dog stories.
It was 1 degree out and my dog was happily sitting on the front step, watching the world go by. Meanwhile I was trying to hibernate.
Showing off their XXXL Christmas coats. Zephyr’ s fits a little tight but it’s the biggest I could find. Tempest loves hers. Z gets chilled pretty easily even in our warm climate. T is an endless font of energy and doesn’t mind the cold.
@moondrake I just saw someone walking two dogs that could of been your dog’s twins… Then I remembered that you were nowhere near.
They seem to enjoy it.
@SSteve So sweet! Thanks for sharing!
When we had that snow in Alabama in December, my four month old black lab loved it!
She dove into it, dug tunnels, bit it and ran around in circles and flips.
My four other dogs were not impressed and enjoyed the days in the house.
I have not had the joy of having a puppy for 19 years and she is a joy!
Allie
I don’t know either!
@Calabama Puppies are the best.