A dog’s foot is not built for rocky, craggy footing which why is wolves and other wild canids are usually found in forests or on plains.
*We* drag them to ‘unnatural’ places, such as sharp, jagged shards of rock, blistering hot macadam and concrete.
I am *horrified* when I see oblivious people walking their dogs on blacktop when the *air* temps are near 100.
I have snakes so I happen to have IR temp guns all over the place and the temps of blacktop on even just a ‘pretty warm’ day are hot enough to singe dog feet.
One woman’s little Pom was nearly tap-dancing as the hot road burned her feet and the woman just stared at me blankly when I told her ~why~ her dog was “acting like a jerk”.
Gah!
Stupid people!
I hear you. I went to a dog park for a show for our breed. While we were there a small dog was being chased by a line of big dogs while the owner thought they were playing it was so cute. It took us about 2 seconds to inform this woman that was not what the larger dogs were doing. They saw this little dog as prey. She couldn’t believe it. We suggested if she loved her dog to pick it up and leave or give it to us.