Re dogs cutting their paws in landfills - I was just talking about this yesterday with my husband. The thing is, we take care of stray dogs here in India and currently there is a mother with 3 puppies who we are feeding every day. They live in a large empty plot where people from all over the neighborhood throw their household garbage over the fence - a common thing here to do. (Yes it's disgusting, but there are no dumpsters or garbage disposal trucks here so people don't know what to do with their garbage.) So of course there is lot of broken glass, wires, and tin cans etc on that ground. The puppies are now about 4 months old and I was saying to my husband just yesterday that it is really astonishing that none of them has any cuts in their paws given that they also run around and play as puppies do in the midst of all that garbage. One however died of what looked like a poisoning last month. It's not the first time that I see a stray dog succumb to what looks like ingestion of something poisonous but I virtually never see any cuts in paws. I assume dogs must be quite aware and clever about where they step.
