#justintimberflakes

[fbwzoo]

I got my first cat a little over a month ago and I'm not sure where to go for questions/help, community-wise. I know there's a lot of misinformation out there and I want to give her the best life I can. Do you know of any Facebook groups or Tumblr blogs I can follow? (Besides wadtt, been following for years)

I’m in a few cat groups on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/felinebehaviorsolutions/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fearlessfelinestraining

https://www.facebook.com/groups/193026041447957/

And @catsindoors has a website - https://catsindoors.weebly.com/ and a discord server - https://discord.gg/etE62SG I’m in the discord server and we have a pretty good group there if you’re interested in joining! :) 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Why do dogs (and sometimes cats) walk funny when you put shoes on their feet?

Because it feels weird, I think, is the most effective answer. 

Think about how feet work, no matter what the species - they’re designed to be able to expand and compress under an individual’s weight, to squish and change shape as weight is put on them throughout the length of the stride, and then to pull back together as the foot is lifted. Adding a shoe to that totally changes how walking feels (because the foot isn’t in contact with the ground directly) and potentially how it can occur (if the shoe is solid in a way that restricts expansion of the toes). Soft rubber / plastic shoes like the ones that you can get to protect pet toes from extreme weather may not extremely restrict how their feet can move, but they’d definitely feel weird! And if there’s something weird or wrong relating to feet, what does anyone reflexively do? Walk gingerly until you figure it out / get used to it / the thing that feels weird falls off. 

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