Soft paws??

I think Sassy and I had been together for about 3 months, I was taking her in for a check-up at the local vet in Elwood.

All seemed to be as it should be, but I was a concerned about her paws, she had cut one of her pads on the way to the park and it wasn't healing properly.

So I ask the vet if there was anything I should be doing?

He looks at her paws and her history card and back at her paws, scratching his head and shaking it in confusion he looks at me and says "I'm surprised at this, for her age she should have started to develop callus on her pads"

He looked confused and bewildered!

So I pipe up .... "Hypothetically, if someone were to moisturise a dogs paws would that stop these callus from developing?"

At this point he is shaking his head in disbelief, "have you been moisturising your dogs paws?"

At this point I realise my goose is cooked and have to admit, that each night when we are sitting on the couch after doing my own nails and moisturising that I do the same for Sassy, then we have a cup of tea and watch TV or read a book, a true girls night in!

Her paws were very well maintained, although she HATED getting her nails clipped. Her tip-tapping walk was her call sign, you could tell it was her entering a room from her wiggle and her tapping!