Does anybody know a way to convince doggies to like, or at least tolerate, wearing shoes?

[conuly]

OMG I AM DESPERATE HERE. IT IS WAY TOO COLD FOR THEM TO GO OUT WITH UNPROTECTED FEET, AND THERE IS SALT AND ALL.

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Comments

[jhetley]

I saw a thing on the news about "musher's wax" that you can rub on paws to protect them. No further knowledge. That does Google.

[conuly]

Thanks.

[jesse_the_k]

It’s a freaking challenge! Some doggies will lic’ the musher's wax from between their toes. Carrying one of those numbly poly cleaning cloths can help wipe salt off. Clip the hair between pads so ice balls don’t form.

[jesse_the_k]

*lick
**nubby

[conuly]

I assume the wax is at least non-toxic?

Oh yes

[jesse_the_k]

...it's fine for them to eat, just the fact of them eating it means they're not walking.

[batwrangler]

Classical conditioning and shaping behavior, but it's not a fast solution.

[batwrangler]

You could try getting some woolly tights, cutting the crotch out, and putting them on doggies like those mittens on strings to keep kids from loosing them?

[conuly]

Yeah, and I need them to be able to walk on the ground, like, two days ago :(

[silailo]

I didn’t know that about our copyright laws. Sometimes my country really disappoints me. Actually...it’s been disappointing me constantly for the last several years.

[conuly]

Yes, under any rational system of copyright laws Batman, for example, would be in the public domain.

[jesse_the_k]

Although the article mis-steps when discussing transformative works. "Remix" is parody, exempted from copyright -- more details here:
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fair_Use

[redbird]

The problem with "fair use" is that there's no objective definition of what counts as fair use, so the person being sued for infringement would have to convince the court that this specific parody qualified as fair use. (I am not a lawyer, nor anything like an expert on this; suffice to say that it's complicated.)

[jessie_c]

Apparently it involves a lot of giggling and John Cleese moves.

Also apparently Embedding videos into comments doesn't work :(

[conuly]

Thanks :)

[randomdreams]

It depends on the dog, obviously, but our last two learned fairly rapidly with application of food they really, really liked, at a short distance from where they had the shoes put on them, two or three times of a few minutes each, each day for a couple of days, at which point they still clearly didn't like the experience much but were willing to put up with it for the awesomeness that is walkies.

[conuly]

I'll try it.

[healme365]

dog feet are like the most thickest foot callus ever. Would you should be more worried about is dry weather cracking the pads and chemicals and salt that they throw on ice. Paw balm is great and its made of coconut oil and bees wax basically, so chapstick for footsies and it helps protect against the weather damaging their callus feet. you can make your own or i suggest paw balm by espree you can get it cheap on amazon. i have personally never used the musher one but i assume its just the same as all the others. i like espree because they advertise it as all natural which im all about.

[conuly]

I'll try it. They actually cried the last time and then flinched when I picked them up to carry them home. I barely made it across the street. It's the salt, I know, but the fact that it's so fucking cold doesn't help.

[fairestcat]

We got Bogart to accept his with liberal application of liver treats and pets. The first couple times he'd try to pull them off outside, but then it got really cold and he discovered how the ground feels without them and he's good with them now.

[conuly]

Can't hurt to try, though thus far that's had no effect on her desire to accept nail trimming.

[fairestcat]

Bogart completely flips out if you try to trim his nails, but doesn't mind the boots, so it really depends on the dog.

[conuly]

She doesn't flip out, but she cries and tries to very gently move our hands from her feet using her teeth.

[greghousesgf]

Windtalkers SHOULD have been about the Native American codetalkers. It was actually about Nic Cage as some white guy.

[conuly]

Well, that's typical.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's the usual slow habituation process (https://www.google.com/search?q=teach+dogs+to+wear+shoes) it takes to get animals to do anything that doesn't come naturally. You might have to go back to using newspapers or a litter-box indoors until the cold snap is over or they tolerate the boots, whichever comes first.

[conuly]

We've got puppy pads, and I think we'll have to get more. Last time I took them out they cried, and actually flinched when I picked them up to carry them home. I had barely managed to cross the street.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Poor little beasties. I hope they get used to their boots soon; clearly they can't go out barefoot in such weather.

[conuly]

Not with wind chills in the -degrees fahrenheit they can't. Poor little doggos.