Doggie feet & concrete.

Two issues....

1. I have seen a couple of people walking dogs here in stinking hot weather. Don't walk your dog in 40c! Just because you have a water bottle doesn't mean they do!!!!
... & if you can't walk on the path (concrete) bare footed, (I walked to the mailbox today & had to " quick, tippy toe to the grass") why should they?

2. Tyson runs like a ferret on heat in the park (when it cools down) he needs to cover the entire area in .78 sec.    He uses the same speed (like a wild boar coming at you ) be it grass or concrete! He has very short nails but he grinds them into splinters running on concrete.  How can I prevent or fix this bar trimming & filing (after the fact) or spoiling his fun?

Anyone know of an oil to strengthen & nourish?

So, summer warning.... if it's too hot for you to walk your dog bare footed for the entire walk....it's too hot for them to! Take care for your doggies pads!

We had the same problem here during an extra hot summer - people do not think! I have blistered the soles of my feet on baking tarmac in the past, it's not pleasant! (But it was my own fault!)

I agree with you - people don't think about their dogs' feet!

I can't suggest anything for the claws, though. What about rubbing some Vaseline into them?

Lorraine, I've done it to & was also my own fault. & it hurts for days if not weeks.

Ps... do you guys call a path (concrete) a tarmac? A tarmac to us is for planes to take off & land on. Maybe tarmac to you guys is "bitumen" to us?

You guys have got to learn English so I understand what you are saying!

Ooops! I meant the path was made of tarmac, which I guess is what you call bitumen - as this is one of the constituent ingredients. We rarely have concrete paths. Of course, with the path being newly laid, and black, it had soaked up all the heat!

I've never learned proper English, I'm a country lass - known colloquially as a yokel, so many English people don't understand a word I'm saying anyway!

we have paths , roads , and runways . These can be made ( or covered by ) Tarmac , concrete etc .............. and there endeth the lesson in real english

Oh you guys are soooo funny.  

Our paths are generally concrete, occassionally bitumen.
Roads are always bitumen.
But say tarmac here & we think you walk your dog at the airport on the runway.

tracyp wrote:
But say tarmac here & we think you walk your dog at the airport on the runway.

Well, there'd be plenty of room............ You'd just have to duck occasionally!

Hehehehe! I'm actually laughing out loud now looking at the screen like a crazy woman!

Lorraine wrote:with the path being newly laid, and black, it had soaked up all the heat!

That's bitumen to us. One day we took a motorbike out, parked it in 35c on bitumen only to come back hrs later to find it on an 45 degree angle, It had sunk into to bitumen as the heat had melted it.

(Only funny as it was not mine.)

Oooops!

Yes, it's funny when it happens to someone else!

Yeah, but no! I laughed at him for ages till i thought....THAT'S my ride home, so I had to help get it out. Thank god it was still hot & the bitumen hadnt cooled yet or we would have been in trouble. Ever since that day, I don't ride without a square flat piece of wood under the pillion seat to level the bike stand be it stinking hot or in mud.

On a side note, isn't it strange how different the English language is depending on which country you're in?

My favourite 'difference' between England and Australia is the word 'thongs'. To us they're skimpy panties, to you they're flip-flops!

Now that's very true. Your "thong" is our "g-string".

Even in aust...
In sydney... a scallop means a potato slice in batter. We call it a potato cake. In melb a scallop is a mollusc. In syd you have to ask for a "tasmanian scollop".