How do you keep burrs out of paw pads?

[Gracie, Jade, & Barkley]

Boots? Mushers wax? What works for your dog?

Gracie loves to take walks, but I guess our woods are full of burrs because I'm having to pick them out of her paws. I've never had to deal with this with our other dogs, so her paws must be like magnets. She has the hair groomed between the pads so it's not excessively long.

[Shoney & Ruby]

Hmm, we just went through this with Ruby in New Mexico. We decided to avoid those trails with burrs, hard but well worth it. I've also thought of trying Musher's Wax, which we use in the winter, it probaby wouldn't keep them off completely but might make them easier to remove and prevent them from lodging so tightly.

Good luck.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Avoidance.  Like you, my last dogs did not seem to have this issue, but maybe I was too busy to notice. I zoom in and get the big picture way before I go into/ walk an area.  I've leaned from some hard lessons. 

Those poor paw pads. It is a real problem

[Gracie, Jade, & Barkley]

Kind of hard to avoid apparently because you don't see them. Right now the wood trails are covered with leaves.
At first I thought it was because we went off trail the first time, but the next time we went for a walk we stayed on the trails. She still got them all over her paws.

I just read that some people use mushers wax, so I might give that a try. Thanks.

[Stella]

Keep the hair between the pads and around the feet trimmed short so there is less for the burrs to stick to?

[Gracie, Jade, & Barkley]

I will talk to the groomer. Although I have attempted to trim the hair in my schnoodles paw pads, I'm a whimp and always leave it too long. Just like when I trim nails, I'm too afraid to get too close so just leave them on the long side until they go to the groomers.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Perhaps they could wear Muttlucks?  I try to avoid areas with the burrs but I don't do much in the way of nature walks with my guys.

[Gracie, Jade, & Barkley]

I'm going to look into them. Thanks.

[Richard Crowe]

There are shoes/sneakers for dogs.

 https://www.google.com/search?q=dog+shoes+petco&oq=dog+shoes&am...

Holly doesn't particularly like to wear these but they keep her feet dry and mud/sand free.  I would expect that they would also prevent the feet from collecting burrs.  These shoes/sneakers would also be good to protect the feet from heat if the dog is walking on a hot summer sidewalk...

Poodles usually have their feet trimmed very close.  Our previous foster Labradoodle, Coco goes to the beach regularly with her mom and dad.  Their groomer clips Coco's feet closely like a poodle which prevents collecting sand and I would guess would prevent burrs from collecting. Anyway, it would make getting rid of the burrs far easier. I don't really like the poodle look but, it really helps when you are a frequent beach goer...

[Nancy and Georgia Brown]

I just plan time to pull them out afterwards if we hike in an area that has them. I call her my velcro dog. It's annoying but harmless and I am often pulling them out as we are hiking.

I think the issues I worry about most when taking her hiking is foxtails and poison oak. Foxtails here can easily cause an expensive trip to the vet, poison oak because it means I'm the one that will suffer for weeks.