Paw Aware
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Paw Protection
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I use booties and waxes when conditions warrant, but usually sparingly because it’s important to keep the skin on a Dog’s pads healthy to keep them less injury prone and booties can prevent that.
I like to vary the trail surfaces we run including asphalt. Different surfaces can offer different but important aspects that with a good rotation of a variety of surfaces they can almost all contribute to developing and maintaining healthy paws, pads, nails, joint/muscles and bone density.
It’s important to learn the way a particular dog runs and understand if there are issues causing abnormal or unnecessary pad wear that may be dog not surface dependent and then address accordingly.
This is true especially as dogs get older and age related health issues that may limit their mobility for instance, they sometimes don’t lift their paws as high when they walk so they can be subject to almost dragging their paws but it’s not always obvious to notice except if you see blood from grinding the nail or claw down to the bloodline. I actually have had dogs in their senior years that loved to be on the bike so much they would put holes in booties from dragging their back paws. I then in my thinking outside of the box created essentially steel paw booties:)
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