Salt
For those of you who happen to not live in a frozen wasteland that can be Canada, you may not know about the absolutely terrible practice of battling the freeze on streets and sidewalks.
Out here in Eastern Canada, the people in power seem obsessed about spreading salt all over every piece of horizontal space imaginable. The thing is salt reduces the freezing point of water so that even if it is below zero, some of the snow and ice will melt.
While this undoubtedly makes everything much less slippery, it is devastating on my dogs. The poor little guys get salt rocks trapped in their paws, which then burns the hell out of their feet. Watching them squeal in adject pain and then hobble around trying not to touch the ground is horendous.
For a little easier time for us, we put these animals in pain. Sounds very human doesn't it?
Out here in Eastern Canada, the people in power seem obsessed about spreading salt all over every piece of horizontal space imaginable. The thing is salt reduces the freezing point of water so that even if it is below zero, some of the snow and ice will melt.
While this undoubtedly makes everything much less slippery, it is devastating on my dogs. The poor little guys get salt rocks trapped in their paws, which then burns the hell out of their feet. Watching them squeal in adject pain and then hobble around trying not to touch the ground is horendous.
For a little easier time for us, we put these animals in pain. Sounds very human doesn't it?
posted by Rye at 8:42 a.m.
1 Comments:
That's ridiculous. You'll feel differently when your car goes off th road on a patch of ice. I think your dogs' slight discomfort is a fair trade-off for saving people's lives.
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