Muddy paws

Air_Cooled_75

Hi everyone,

How do you deal with muddy dog paws? I hate this weather! I usually wipe them with a towel but she's having a Chewbacca paws thing at the moment. I have a toddler so can't spend ages each time she goes out cleaning them...would unscented baby wipes be a terrible thing to use??

Grateful to hear how you all sort them out thanks x

zaksmum

Air_Cooled_75 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

How do you deal with muddy dog paws? I hate this weather! I usually wipe them with a towel but she's having a Chewbacca paws thing at the moment. I have a toddler so can't spend ages each time she goes out cleaning them...would unscented baby wipes be a terrible thing to use??

Grateful to hear how you all sort them out thanks x

I keep a towel by the door and wipe the dogs' paws as they come indoors. And their tummies too because they can get just as muddy if the dogs go on grass.

gettingready

I close my eyes and ignore the mud...

Katiehound

I try to persuade mine to run up and down the Turtle (type) runner as it has absorbent cotton pile. Of course they would rather run past it quickly!
If it is very wet I towel the paws.

Wellyboots6

I have fashioned a dog car wash out of baby gates and towels!

Shepherd1

Come and live in scotland, on todays walk i have fallen on the ice and pooch has fallen three times but no muddy paws.

Air_Cooled_75

I'm praying for a freeze I can turn a blind eye to a level of mud but today has been ridiculous! Doesn't help that we have a poorly LO and that DH has been taking down a greenhouse and shed.

krlyr

Dirt trapper rugs! Available pretty cheap here - http://www.splendidpets.co.uk
I've not had the more expensive "Turtle mats" versions to compare but these do the job quite well anyway Got one by the back door and I've cut a runner down into an oversized doormat by the front door. Easier to hoover than regular carpet (or I just use a dog slicker brush! As the fibre isn't looped so doesn't catch) and they've machine washable too (or you can use a pressure washer if they're too large for the machine) though I've not bothered washing mine yet, just hoover off the dried mud.

rising_from_the_ashes

Towels down at both doors & towels within reach!

Maisie is a mud magnet :eek: I did think she was a lot worse than Ben (who was bad enough ) but she's staying at DMs just now & DM says she can take both dogs out & her dog comes in, walks on the towels and nothing .... Maisie comes in and great big muddy paw prints everywhere..... that's my girl!:rotfl:

aliasojo

I have a basin of warm water at the ready and our mutt 'walks' through the basin (if he's really bad, he gets sponged down too). Then he gets towelled dry.

Couldn't leave him muddy, I couldn't stand the dirt or the smell.

meritaten

katy721 wrote: »

I have fashioned a dog car wash out of baby gates and towels!

and do you have 'At the car wash' playing? I would buy tickets to watch that!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: