Dog Mats Between Paw Pads

Pad your grooming resume with this neat paw pad fur retrieval trick.

Dog mats between paw pads.

Dry and cracked paw pads. It s important to properly care for your dog s feet beyond making sure their nails are trimmed and it s pretty simple. Learning how to maintain your dog s paws and the fur growth between his paw pads can help keep him healthy and your house safe from debris and bacteria. If your dog is one of the lucky breeds that doesn t sprout long hairs between his paw pads congratulations you re already done with your paw dicure.

Pets paw pads are supposed to be rough so they can get traction on smooth surfaces. You never know when your dog may need to have pretty toes and well groomed feet. However a variety of factors including hot pavement wintery conditions chemicals dry air exposure to rough surfaces and excessive licking can cause dry cracked paw pads. A dog s swollen paw can point to a number of causes including injuries insect bites dry skin infection burning from hot surfaces trapped stones between toes thorns and more.

If your dog does get salt on his paws wipe it off with a towel paper towels. Dry and cracked paws can be painful and put your pet. We find that it tends to burn particularly when the paw pads with salt on them touch the snow so try to avoid walking through salt and then snow or wipe off feet between getting salt on them and walking through the snow says dr. Injured paw pads make walking painful and can get infected and mats between their toes can cause walking problems or a variety of skin issues if your dog licks at them.

Getting a handle on hairy paws.