Today we are thankful for avoiding paw freeze. This week we had the massive arctic blast where it was below zero for a couple days and Tuesday morning it was twenty below without the windchill. I have not been in that kind of cold yet. Mom said we all had to wear shoes. What? I had no idea what she was talking about.
The past days I had noticed in the snow my paws would burn so I would race back to the road and they would be fine. It happens to my sisters too. Mom said it wasn’t that bad and she didn’t want to put on twelve shoes so we could go bare paw. Some how minus twenty is way too cold to be bare pawed outside. Out came the PAWZ shoes. Mom had eight blue and four purple. It turns out the color is for the size.
Olivia and I are the first to do our walking so we got to put these things on first. I tried to fight off the shoe but Mom insisted. Finally I had all four on and then I ran around like a bucking bronco. Olivia, who is sometimes weird, didn’t fight this shoe thing at all and walked like normal. We got out side and I totally forgot about my shoes. We took our twenty minute walk with no paw freeze which was nice.
Lucky for me, no one else was out walking in that temperature at six am, so no one saw me with these shoe things. I do have to say it was nice being able to use the facilities without trying to balance on like one paw! My shoes were almost too small as I have jumbo bear paws but Mom says it keeps them from falling off. Olivia wears a size smaller which is blue but her front jumbo pillow paws could wear purple too.
Bailie has very dainty paws and blue fits her perfectly. She knows they stop the paw freeze and lets Mom put them on easily. According to Bailie when you get older, you don’t care about how you look as long as you are not cold or in pain. Hmmm…interesting concept.
For Bailie the shoes give her energy and her walk turned out to be longer than planned as she wasn’t even cold and didn’t want to go home so fast. We are all thankful for being able to walk without any paw freeze these few times of the year when it is so cold. I am wondering if it will be another three years until I have to wear these things again. Avoiding paw freeze is worth it I guess. Thankfully Mom is careful about taking care of our precious paws.
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Cold feet in the snow is not fun! Mom is going to look into your Pawz shoes.
We only need them when it is more than ten below but they are simple and work really well. Mom has been using them for like fifteen years.
that is a weonderful thing what helps us to get over da winter without becoming frosty paws…
That paw freeze is no fun so a few times in the winter we wear our shoes and everything is wonderful with our paws.
We have used those same boots when the pavement was too hot!
We never are bothered by that but the cold snow can be painful.
You all look very thankful for having toasty paws rather than frosty paws. What a wonderful invention.
I love you lighted collar too
Hugs cecilia
Mom gets us all foolish looking and we go out, the nerd dogs in the neighborhood. Oh well, she is doing what is best for us. She says her Mom made her wear stuff she felt nerdy in too when she was a kid.
Your mom is doing the right thing for all of you (as usual). Mom wasn’t very successful with putting ours on and she gave up, but mostly we get put exercise in the house – because we can run circles through most of the rooms, and being outside is really quick since we have a doggy door to come and go.
It is not easy at first but then Mom has been doing it for like fifteen years so she is good at it and I am the only one squirming since I never had anything on my feet before.
Your mommy takes very good Care of you.
She tries her best.
Adorable doggies in their boots protecting their feet ~ great photos ~ hugs,
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
It’s so wonderful you get to have your feet protected when you go out in the snow and cold. Frosty paws aren’t fun at all. Hooray for your Mama! Thanks for joining Angel Brian’s Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
Even though we are not sure about shoes at first, we do appreciate the work they do.
Your mom is smart. My daughter puts boots on Coda for the hot summer so she doesn’t burn her paws down here. Coda tries to shake them off but can’t.
One day i saw a dog with doggie crocs on. His mom doesn’t have a car and they walk everywhere, and the sidewalks and roads get very hot, so he’s used to wearing his crocs.
Just like people, we adjust to things over time. The heat doesn’t bother our paws but the super below zero does freeze our pads and it hurts so we wear shoes on those days.
Glad your mom put the shoes on you guys-it’s a pain to do 12 paws but makes a huge difference protecting from the freeze as well as sidewalk melt products which burn tender paws.
We don’t have sidewalk melt stuff where we walk so that isn’t a concern it is just the below 20 cold that hurts. I think we are done with the shoes for this season.