Timeline for How might digitigrade biped shoes work?
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 19:15 | comment | added | Sherwood Botsford | Sled dog racers make simple nylon fabric shoes for their dogs. Otherwise the pads of their feet get sanded off by rough ice. It's particularly bad on the sea ice, but any thawed/refrozen surface can be bad. They wear out very quickly. Some mushers replace the shoes daily. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 7:45 | comment | added | user | On the other hand, wolves rarely wear blankets when out in the snow... Human-directed dog breeding has left quite a few breeds pretty far removed from what would be needed to actually survive in the wild year-round. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 7:42 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @Mołot, I think actual dog shoes are designed to make owners happy, not dogs comfortable. Wolves have crawled in snow or mud for as long as they exist without the need for shoes. So it's pretty hard to find a "good" example of these shoes. But in the OP world thing are (hopefully) different. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 7:37 | comment | added | Mołot | Emm but the one you posted fastens below the ankle. Actual ankle is what looks like "reversed knee". | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 7:06 | comment | added | Lot-Of-Malarkey | You beat me to the punch there. Good job. I agree that something like a roman sandal would probably have something to go up and around the heel bone. Maybe with a hole in the back so the heel can stick out and not be chafed. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 6:57 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |