This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2008.
SALTY DOG!
Ok, enough already! I officially stopped 9 times this morning while walking my dog in the Hydrostone area of the North end – why? – to wipe salt off of his paws… salt in fact burns the pads on his paws and he drops like a ton of bricks and cries… YES
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Fuck off and buy some booties for your dog. Guess what? Nobody dumping the salt is going to read this and stop dumping salt, ok? Either talk face to face with everyone on your dog-walking route who dumps the salt (and the city as well, good luck with that one) or stop abusing your pet by forcing it to walk on what are always going to be salt-laden paths. Get it? By the fucking booties. I did and my dog loves them. Or is your dog too ‘butch’ to wear booties? Doesn’t sound like it, though, all lying on the ground crying at you.
Right, people need to go flying because you’re too insecure to put booties on your dog. What the hell does it matter if he’s 70 pounds? Sled dogs wear them, ffs.
Or move to Florida, Puss’n Boots. You knew you lived in a city that salted when you bought the dog, so pull your head out of your ass.
Yeah okay fucker, then when you slip on their walkway/sidewalk you’d probably be on here to bitch that it’s too icy. If your dog doesn’t like that route then maybe you should find a new one like….. a fucking park where he/she can run freely or suck it up and buy the dog some fuckin’ boots. I guess the fucking world should stop so your fucking dog can be comfortable. Let me see, have people fall and suffer all the consequences and ramifications that come with a slip and fall or let your dog be comfortable on unsalted icy sidewalks. Don’t be so god damned foolish!
Do you think your dog cares if it wears booties? Like other dogs are going to scoff at him? Put away your pride while you go to Juliens for your pains au chocolat so that your dog doesn’t have to suffer from the salty sidewalks. Furthermore, sled dogs – who are some of the toughest dogs in the world – wear boots. And if those dogs get along fine with them, your pansy city dog will be fine with them.http://houndsaroundtown.com/style/boots.html
status symbol dog? god….get a life. I bet you also have a truck that is jacked up and has big mud tires on it. if you are too insecure to protect your dog’s by putting booties on them you might be in the running for world’s smallest penis!do the rest of us a favor and walk your stupid ass in front of a bus so there will be
status symbol dog? god….get a life. I bet you also have a truck that is jacked up and has big mud tires on it. if you are too insecure to protect your dog’s by putting booties on them you might be in the running for world’s smallest penis!do the rest of us a favor and walk your stupid ass in front of a bus so there will be one less asshole in this world who needs to look cool.
In spring, you walk more with your dog, in summer, you have to bathe him for fleas, in the fall, you have to wipe his muddy paws. It’s winter and you’ve got another responsibility to your pet. Counting how many times you do it doesn’t make it someone else’s problem to solve.
Exactly, Amber Light. They probably would bitch about it being too icy. I’d rather not slip on theice, especially if I’m carrying something that breaks easily. When I read the title of this bitch,I couldn’t help but laugh, because “Salty Dog” is an old folk/blues song. It means oral sex,”Let me be your Salty Dog”, equals “blow me.” Which is figuratively what everyone is saying to OP. That makes it even funnier.
it’s winter. it’s icy. people fall and break their necks on ice HENCE the salt. If you’re not going to put a fucking pair of booties on your dog then it’s YOUR fault your poor dog’s paw pads hurt, not the people trying to make the sidewalks safe to walk on in the winter.not falling and breaking bones/neck/ass >>>>>>>>>>>>++++++ putting booties on your dog
Although I do love animals…people come first in the cities. There are much much much bigger ramifications from a human being slipping and falling on the icy sidewalks/streets, than the fact that your dog is too butch to wear booties. I’d say you are an animal abuser to continue to force your dog to walk on the salty streets, and do not deserve to own said animal at all.And that the fact that the salted sidewalks and roads bother poor puppys paws, well, that’s your problem as a dog owner. Not everyone elses. As mentioned before, it is much worse to not salt them, and right in the city, sand is NO GOOD. it does not melt the snow, and you people around here can not drive as it is, imagine what it’d be like if there was no salt to actually clear the roads. They’d be snow and ice covered all the time and REALLY dirty. And then you’d complain that your poor doggys paws are freezing on all that nasty ice and why don’t they use some salt??? Swallow your fucking pride and get the dog some booties, or give it away to some one who will. We and the city are not abusing your dog…YOU are.
Although, the city does go slightly over board with the amount of salt they use.
Keeping a 70lb AmStaff in the city could really be seen as cruelty to animals, especially if you are walking him barefoot on salty/slushy sidewalks… Are you wearing sandals or winter boots? Get over yourself and buy some of those stupid looking boots for him.