Paw protection for dogs
Winter walks bring a lot of pleasure to the owner and the dog, but the cold period is fraught with great danger to the pet. For comfortable movement of people, sidewalks are sprinkled with reagents or road salt, which is absolutely safe for humans, but critical for unprotected pads of animals. The problem is relevant for residents of large cities. For owners with the first snow, the question of how to protect the dog’s paws from reagents comes first.
The danger of reagents on the roads
The list of aggressive reagents used by public utilities is growing every year. They become more effective for fighting ice but more dangerous for animals. Constant contact of open pads with substances has unpleasant consequences:
the simplest and most popular mixture is salt and sand. Although it does not sound intimidating, the granules penetrate between the fingers, prevent the dog from bringing the paw, scratch the pads, forming small cracks. The salt mixture acts on damaged skin, threatens with severe depression, pain, tissue inflammation, as well as the formation of open ulcers that are difficult to treat;
other deicing chemicals (including chlorides of calcium, magnesium, sodium) eat into the skin, provoke allergies, penetrate into minor lesions, cracks, causing itching, unpleasant burning sensation, with prolonged contact – serious inflammatory processes.
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