Do you trim the fur between your dog's pads?

**IRescue452** · 12-04-2005, 08:46 PM

Yes, Autumn's. It gets matted up between her toes and she also gets balls of fur stuck between her toes.

**dab_20** · 12-04-2005, 09:46 PM

nope only when they go to the groomers. it doesn't cause any probs though.

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 12-04-2005, 10:04 PM

Yes, I can't stand the appearance of fuzzy feet! It also helps a lot on the tile floor though and in the snow.

**cyber-sibes** · 12-04-2005, 10:07 PM

No, never. Huskies have alot of fur on the undersides of their paws, it helps them have better traction across ice.

**Flatcoatluver** · 12-04-2005, 10:09 PM

yeah I was told i had to do it when i put zoey and t.j in agility trials

**slleipnir** · 12-04-2005, 10:35 PM

I've just started trimming Josie's. Zeke's fur is never long enough to cut (do younger dog's fur not grow? or is it a breed thing?)

Jo's fur was really long..so I cut it 2 weeks ago..ish. And it's already growing out! I never even thought about it much till I went to Amy's...haha! Nebo is SO perfect..like nails, fur, teeth....

so inspiring.

**.sarah** · 12-04-2005, 10:41 PM

What breed is Zeke? Short-haired dogs with no undercoat most likely won't need their fur trimmed. Breeds like Pit Bulls, Greyhounds, Vizslas, etc.

**wolf_Q** · 12-05-2005, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by slleipnir

Jo's fur was really long..so I cut it 2 weeks ago..ish. And it's already growing out! I never even thought about it much till I went to Amy's...haha! Nebo is SO perfect..like nails, fur, teeth....

so inspiring.

LOL that's what being a groomer does to you...

Yeah, I'm a bit obsessive about Nebo's feet, it drives me insane if he has lots of fur sticking between his toes. I shave around the pads and also even trim around the outside edges and on the back of the leg up to the other pad (I always forget what that's called).

I shave around the pads of Reggie and Sydney when I groom them too.

The fur on the undersides of husky paws helps them have better traction across ice.

I have heard that before, but I've more noticed dogs with lots of fur just get snow and ice stuck between in their paws...I don't see how that could help them. But I'm not a musher either.

I've never let Nebo's grow out long enough to notice any difference.

p.s. photo attached of Nebo's feet lol I groomed him yesterday...I do it really short so it will take longer to grow out, it looks better when it's not quite this short.

**cali** · 12-05-2005, 02:49 PM

I keeps Happys feet trimmed both for neatness and to prevent snowballs, I occaionally trim Blairs feet, but it looks weird on him because the hair all down his legs is all long and shaggy, so long and shaggy right down to his feet where it suddenly gets short and neat.. well that just looks weird lol I trim shadows as well but mainly beucuse it I dont she looks like an elf, the hair gets so long and splays out like a star and makes her look like she has 8 extra toes lol Ripley, Perky, and Mistys feet are short enugh as it is, there is nothing that CAN be trimmed lol