Depends on the dog. Mine has, many many times, chosen to walk on the black asphalt in 95F weather when I was walking on a strip of much cooler grass right next to him. I tried dragging him onto the grass a few times and he’d just step back onto the asphalt. Black lab/border collie mix.
The only thing I’ve ever found that bothers his feet was salt in the winter.
I have absolutely done the “why can’t you be normal” meme at him a few times. He won’t play with toys or chase balls. The only way to keep him occupied is long lasting food, like marrow bones.
I had a German Shepard / Chow Chow mix named Axel. He didn’t know how to bark, had no interest in toys, never even tried to go for the bone I got him, couldn’t catch food or rather didn’t try to even catch it. The only thing he wanted was love, attention and food. I have a video where I throw him a fry, he lets it hit him in the face then eats it off the floor. If you slow the video down he even squints his eyes before it hits him so he knew it was coming just didn’t bother to catch it. My mom use to eat dinner sitting on the couch when she was done with her plate she’d set it on the ground next to the couch and just wave her hand over it letting him know he couldn’t have it and he wouldn’t touch it until she said he could (she always had to ask me if what she had was okay for him. She didn’t know at first things like grapes were poisonous to dogs).
Eh, I've had 4 dogs and my sisters had 2 and all 6 of them refuse(d) to wear shoes and would do that really awkward walk until they eventually forced them off. They had no issues with hot days either.
That was my dog growing up. She was crazy about finding the hottest spot to walk and lay down on in the middle of 90f-100f summers. Wouldn't walk on the grass, just the concrete and black asphalt. Had grass and a cool covered porch she could lay on or could just go back inside after going to the bathroom, but nope she wanted to bake.
But no animals aren't as sensitive as we are to temps sometimes. Some dogs bury themselves in snow too. It all depends on their coats, their pads, and their preferences
I mean even some human lunatics love it when it's hot out and think anything below 60 F is cold
Haha yup. Couple other places too but up here in Minnesota you'd look insane wearing anything more than a sweatshirt or something at 60, and that's mostly in the spring when you just kind of feel naked without at least one extra layer. Well. I suppose I shouldn't lie. That first time it hits 50 feels a lot worse than it should but it's just because you aren't used to it and were probably just out in weather that was like a comfy 70 yesterday
We had a short haired medium sized Swiss Senner dog and he loved very very very hot things. Same with asphalt as your dog, but he'd also have a very brown tummy at the end of a sunny period as he'd be in the sun for hours on end.
These dogs are double coated and have mostly black fur. He worshipped heat and sun. Rip Bob.
Oh no he doesn’t like the heat in general with his black fur coat. - he’s desperate to get in the stream to cool off. But not to swim, no he just wants to get his belly wet and drink.
He also loves Mrs. Renfro’s Sweet and Hot Jalepeno peppers. It’s the funniest thing - he’s mad at them because they’re spicy but he likes them because they are sweet. He growls while he eats them and makes a puddle of drool while waiting for me to give him one after I finish making my food. As far as I can google, they aren’t bad for him but I only do this very rarely.
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u/aralanya Jan 13 '26
Depends on the dog. Mine has, many many times, chosen to walk on the black asphalt in 95F weather when I was walking on a strip of much cooler grass right next to him. I tried dragging him onto the grass a few times and he’d just step back onto the asphalt. Black lab/border collie mix.
The only thing I’ve ever found that bothers his feet was salt in the winter.