Natural, Antibacterial Foot Wash for Dogs

Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) & Water Rinse Method

You may not realize it, but your dog’s paws are like damp little Swiffer pads, picking up all kinds of allergens, chemicals and other pollutants.

You can reduce the amount of time your dog spends licking and chewing at her feet by 50 percent with a fast, easy foot soak.

Below is a demonstration of How to do a foot soak in Vinegar & Warm water:

Many of you know the importance of removing pesticides, herbicides, ragweed, grasses, pollens, molds, dust mites and other pollutants from your dog’s feet on a regular basis.

This is because dogs are naked. They don’t wear clothes, or shoes and socks. They don’t shower every day. In other words, their bodies collect a lot of allergens and chemicals in the environment, and it builds up quickly.

Your dog’s feet can gather a pretty heavy toxin load in addition to allergens, and this can become extremely irritating to his paws. This causes their paws to get infected and got swollen, sometime it ends up to limping.

Almost 50 percent of foot licking and chewing can be alleviated by removing allergens and other irritants collected on a dog’s paws.(simply means rinsing them off).

Washcloth isn’t nearly as efficient at cleaning your dog’s feet as dunking them is. So you need to ‘soaks’ or ‘rinses,’ the foots.

You don’t need to do the soak in a big tub. For instance, if your dog is a big guy, you can use a bucket and soak one foot at a time.

If you have a little dog, you can use your kitchen or bathroom sink.

So it doesn’t matter where you do it or whether you rinse all four paws at once or one paw at a time. What’s important is to soak those paws at the end of any day when your pet has been in contact with allergens, lawn chemicals, or anything in the environment with the potential to irritate her feet.

Keep in mind the only places dogs sweat from are their noses and the pads of their feet. So those damp little pads can collect a really heavy load of irritants.

A soak at the end of the day will reduce the chemical burden on your dog, as well as the potential for irritation.

Doing the Soak

Put couple inches of water in a bowl or a bucket. You need enough water to cover the pads of your dog’s feet.

Create a mixture of 1 Unit of apple cider vinegar + 3 Units of lukewarm water

You can just soak each foot in the mixture one at a time, making sure each entire pad surface is covered with the mixture, and it shouldn’t be nearly as scary for your dog as being put in the bathtub.

If your dog is nervous about being in water, you can offer treats. Treats always help pass the time so having some snacks handy is a good idea.

Remember, the key is to get the feet submerged in the solution, which will wash away any type of yeast that might be growing, as well as mild bacterial infections, allergens, and other contaminants.

Pat Dry and DONE!

After you’ve soaked each foot for two to five minutes, there’s no need to rinse the solution off your dog’s feet.

Just lift your dog out of the bath or remove that last foot and pat the paws dry. Done!