{"id":17836,"date":"2018-01-01T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2018-01-01T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:33:32","slug":"booties-for-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2018\/01\/booties-for-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Booties for Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7838.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7838.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the snow got deeper and deeper, Bear and Auggie made good use of the &#8220;no snow&#8221; zone next to the house.  Above was before Winter Storm: Round 3 dumped another foot or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7871.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7871.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The no snow zone is a bit tunnel-like now.  Meanwhile it got colder and when it gets below 15F, Bear starts having trouble with snow flash freezing on his warm feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7869.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7869.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days after Christmas, we made an emergency dash to the local PetSmart and picked up some booties.  We tried booties once before &#8211; unsuccessfully.  I&#8217;ve been using a foot wax called Musher&#8217;s Secret and that helped but this year it was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>The booties were easy to put on but the rubber pad at the bottom didn&#8217;t really stay under Bear&#8217;s foot.  It flopped around and that made things more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I recently bought myself some extra thick LLBean boot socks and having dashed outside in just socks and my feet stayed dry, I got to thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties1332.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties1332.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Bear is wearing LLBean boot socks and they work for him.  I cut off the Velcro strap from the PetSmart booties and use that under the cuff to keep the socks up.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties1330.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties1330.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now, we are just doing front feet and getting used to socks.  It has warmed up slightly so this is working but if it gets super cold, at least I know we have a solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7864.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec17\/Booties7864.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auggie says the solution is to stay in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the snow got deeper and deeper, Bear and Auggie made good use of the &#8220;no snow&#8221; zone next to the house. Above was before Winter Storm: Round 3 dumped another foot or so&#8230; The no snow zone is a bit tunnel-like now. Meanwhile it got colder and when it gets below 15F, Bear starts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auggie","category-bear","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17841,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions\/17841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}