They keep falling off!

[gooeydog]

I got Goo a set of booties a few weeks ago, and had been acclimating her to wearing them in the house/yard before we had snow, anyway, last night the snow started, and we have a few inches. The problem we're having is that she either steps on herself (clumsy dog :roll: ) and pulls them off by accident, or gets running/pulling so much in her excitement over the snow that they work their way off (the back ones are the worst). I think I have them on tight enough, I pulled them so that the slack was out of the velcro, then tightened them up a bit more (they'd been staying on like that in the house), so how am I supposed to get them to stay on her? As it was, she was getting all upset with me because we kept stopping every 5 mins or so to pull the booties up. Her feet are really sensitive to the cold, normally after about 5 mins in snow, she's lifting her feet up, looknig to me for help, but other than that, she loves being out in it, and I don't want to not let her be out in it. I was hoping that someone in a snowy area would have some advice for me, otherwise I'll be dragging out the duct tape and making sure they won't come off :evilbat: :wink:

[mouseatthebusstop]

attatch like gladis's socks LOL :D

[Guest Anonymous]

There is a thick liquid called "Tough Foot" for dogs. It makes the pads of their feet tougher. My dogs are walked over just about every sort of torraine and none ever have any problems. You can usuallyget it, or something like it, at a local dog store. You may be able to find some where they sell hunting supplies (used for hunting dogs initially.)

[gooeydog]

It makes the pads of their feet tougher.

It's not the pads of her feet though, the webbing between her toes gets all irritated when she's out in the snow, would that stuff still work for that? She also tends to get little sores on the sides of her toes (I think partially allergies from being in contact with the wet grass/leaves, partially irritation from the snow/cold) at times. I tried vaseline last year, and it didn't work, so we did baby socks for the rest of the winter. I'll see what I can find about the other jelly stuff though (it'd probably be much easier than the booties anyway, though Goo wouldn't like it so much as "getting dressed up" :lol: :roll: ).

I think too that it didn't help things that she insisted on walking through every puddle she saw, even standing in a few until I made her get out (like a little kid, get them a pair of shoes, and they're out stomping around in the first mud puddle they see :roll: ). We'll try these until this snow is gone, and if no improvements, we'll find something different :lol:

[mouseatthebusstop]

it was mentioned on here once before washing the paws in cold tea helps to make them tough