RE: [pyrnet] Snowballs between their feet

["Stephanie Whitney" <srwhitney1@earthlink.net>]

Now I'm wondering what you all mean by between his toes.  Anais gets little
snowballs as you say, mostly on top of her feet, not really between her
toes.  They do look like pom-poms.  The wolfhounds, on the other hand, get
huge hard iceballs stuck between their foot pads that have to be removed. 
They can be as big as an icecube, deep between his pads so that you can't
see them until you scoop them out.  Anais never gets anything like that. 
Her feet seem to spread out more and the snow doesn't pack in like that.

Stephanie, Ciaran, Anais & Maggie
>
> I have had dogs for many years, most of which suffered in the winter
> with snowballs in between their toes.  Claude is my first pyr, and I was
> amazed the he never had snowballs between his toes.  When he came in
> after walking or playing in the snow, he had a bunch of snowballs
> sitting on top of his feet, and on closer inspection I noticed that he
> didn't have any snowballs in between his toes.  It really looks like
> these snowballs wiggle their way up between his toes and stay on top of
> his feet.  ...  Does anyone else have this kind of
> experience too?  When Claude walks through the snow, his feet spread
> out, which is why I believe the snowballs have room to move up between
> his toes.  He looks funny coming inside with these tiny 'pompoms'
> sitting on top of his feet.
>
> Reni Van Aerden
> Calgary, AB (where the snow is fast disappearing -- yeah!!!)