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Originally Posted by porsche tech

Turned cold here (41 this morning). Time to get out Bosco’s winter gear.

How do we know which dogs are cold and which dogs love the cold?

And FYI, dogs actually have a biology that helps keep them warm. The veins and arteries in their legs are routed along side each other, so that the cold blood heading back to their heart from the paws is heated by the warm blood in the arteries. This helps keep the blood in their body and heart warmer. Or so I've read.

I do understand that under certain circumstances they can use shoes (whether it's due to heat or I understand that in certain circumstances they run shoes to keep ice crystals from cutting their feet up (I think that's usually sled dogs under specific circumstances).