Sorry, Little Filthy: Why I shouldn’t have kids.
You may have heard. It’s cold in Chicago. Lots of snow and ice and salt on the roads and sidewalks. All of that ice, snow and salt gets caught in Little Filthy’s paws. Today, while on the couch, I glanced over and saw a slight cut on one of the pads of Little Filthy’s back foot. I frowned and went to get some anti-biotic cream. I applied some of the cream to his paw with a Q-tip. It was then that I noticed that the pads of his feet looked pretty dry and beat up from the snow and ice. I got this idea to put Aquaphor (which is predominantly petroleum jelly – aka vaseline) on the pads of his feet.
I rolled him on to his back so his paws stuck straight up into the air. Little Filthy likes to have his feet touched so I figured this would be easy. I squeezed out some Aquaphor and began to rub it into the pads of his feet. Pretty soon, front and back paws looked black and healthy and good to go. I was pretty proud of myself and Little Filthy seemed okay with it, too.
Until…(did I mention that I have hard wood floors?)
Until there was a noise in the hallway and he jumped off the couch, raced down the hall on the rug…and then off the rug… and then promptly slid the last 10 or so feet on the hard wood floor and smack into the front door.
He was unfazed but I scooped him up and quickly made sure there was no excess Aquaphor on his feet. Then I cleaned up the skid marks he’d left in the hall.
Good thing the little monster is box trained. I think we’ll just stay inside for a bit.
Sorry, Little Filthy.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
Aw, poor guy!
But let’s think about this…you wouldn’t be putting Aquaphor on the feet of your children and letting them loose. Hm…but maybe fuzzy socks…yeah, maybe you’d better stick to LF.
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 am
NOT convincing enough. I still think you should have kids…
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 am
Aw, poor little puppy. You mean puppy torturer!
Try this: http://www.doctordog.com/store/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=B-606624
My vet friend also recommends good ‘ole Neosporin (sparingly and the cream, not the petroleum jelly-based one) for cracks from salt.
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
Maybe some cute little galoshes? He’d be so dapper! And this doesn’t mean you’d be a bad dad… although, from one fur-mama to a fur-dada, it’s okay if you don’t have kids too.
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 am
Heh, we’d probably do that just to see the dogs slide around.
Not proud of it but it’s probably true
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Yup. You and Michael Vick are in the same category. For shame!
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
i have to agree w/ Bev…i’d prolly do the same thing!
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Buy some Musher’s Secret Paw Wax and put it on his feet before you go a walkin…
December 28th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Dude – that had to hurt! How’s it going Random? Long time!! xoxo
December 28th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Just popping in to say congrats on your new “status”.