Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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If I can walk on it, it's fine for dog. There have been times when we went right back in. The concrete drive was fine, the asphalt was not. |
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I hope none of us dog families here in TV ever have to look at the pads of their dog after they have been burned while out walking. I have only seen photos but it is horrendous! í ½í¸±í ¾íµµ
I would post a photo if I knew how. Google it and see |
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If only you couldn't just type in "dog booties velcro" on Google and come up with dozens of options.
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You can walk him on the grass. You can drive him to the dog park. You can buy your dog booties so he can safely walk on the asphalt. The exact same options YOU have if YOU want to go for a walk. You can walk barefoot on the grass or in a park, or you can put on some shoes/sandals. |
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[wouldn' it be difficult to surpass our Creator's doggie pad design ?
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temp of conc should've been higher than b-top
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Or move South of 44 where there are paths with no traffic
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I make sure my girl walks on grass to protect her pads.
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He just wants to go out and pee on stuff and be nosey and most of the time he doesn't even pee. He never "walks" like most dogs anyway. He just moseys down the way sniffing everything. If I let him, it'd take 20 minutes to go 100 yards. Ever see a dog sniff every leaf of a weed? Mine does it. In the past, when I used to make him walk half a mile or more back north, we'd get to a spot and he'd just sit down. He's done. Seriously, I ended up carrying him back enough times that he taught me how far he's willing to walk and it's not far. This was as a PUPPY. He's a sniffer, not a walker. I guess if my legs were 6 inches long I might be the same way. |
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Joe C.- They do have dog shoes. We had them up North for the snow. When they would run around the backyard, they always came in with the shoes off! LOLI was in Disney last week and someone had a service dog with booties on. Although the booties were a good idea, I thought how horrible to bring an animal to the parks in the extreme heat. It was torture for me walking around!
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As to why it matters, it's because you seem to think he's not getting enough exercise. He gets plenty. As to dog parks, he goes berserk at black dogs. Why? When he was a young pup, several black dogs attacked him at a dog park. He was a 10lb Bichon Frise attacked by 75lb water buffalos of some sort or another. You seem to think we're ignoring our boy. He normally gets 5-7 "walks" a day. Missing one when it's 92 degrees out is not going to harm him. We can also let him do a bio break in the grass at our villa. No interest most of the time, he just wants to be nosey and sniff all the pee mail on the street. |
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The subject is: hot asphalt vs. a dog's paws My post was to suggest options for people who have dogs that they walk, to prevent the hot asphalt from burning their paws because hot asphalt can burn a dog's paws. Three options for people who walk their dogs, who don't want those paws to get burned: have the dog walk on the grass instead of the hot asphalt take him to the dog park instead of taking him for a walk on the hot asphalt buy booties for the dog to wear when you take him for a walk on the hot asphalt. |
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Yes, there are options. Most of time, the best option is to take the dog out when it's cool. I wouldn't want to be outside wearing a fur coat either. Ours gets outside a lot, goes on a lot of cart rides with us when we can, goes to Home depot but I carry him in first when the pavement is too hot. He's now at my ear sighing because he wants to go to bed and I'm not in there yet, so I'm bowing to his will. Guten Abend. |
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