What about hats? Do dogs need hats?

Screw that, my dog wants steak AND socks. Every day after work is like a damn adventure to stop her from snatching my socks, even after I put them in the hamper.

(reads TFA)
Oh.... You meant socks for the DOG. My mistake.

I think that some people use booties to protect their dog's paws from the salt and other chemicals that is put down to melt snow, as it can be irritating to their feet/paws.

my grandmother's dog used to go ape over socks, too. She'd sneak into our room, grab a sock, then go bury it in the back yard. I'm sure there's a whole 12 pack worth of socks still buried out there.

Some dogs want socks too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s6sIiidUZAk (new window)

I have to take my socks away from my dog all the time.

He must like the extra protein.

And the blood vessels in dogs' feet are arranged in a way that lets them act like living heat exchangers:

Soooooo... like every mammalian circulatory system, then?

//My mother has started putting socks on her dogs to keep them from mucking up the finish on the floors
//Probably not a battle she's going to win given that they're a pack of Labradors.

Hagbardr: I have to take my socks away from my dog all the time.

He must like the extra protein.

i wish i did not see what you did there.

El Morro: Screw that, my dog wants steak AND socks. Every day after work is like a damn adventure to stop her from snatching my socks, even after I put them in the hamper.

I had an Akita growing up. When she was a puppy, she thought the greatest game in the world was to try and take the socks off of my feet. While I was walking (or running - I was eight) around the house. To the point where she would come up behind me, wrap up my ankles, bring me down, and then take a sock. Then it was my turn to chase her. The dog's name was Sumo.

jaggspb: Hagbardr: I have to take my socks away from my dog all the time.

He must like the extra protein.

i wish i did not see what you did there.

Your dog wants peanut butter.

The finding suggests that dogs may have evolved in cold environments.

I think someone deserves to be chased by a pack of angry wolves...

Maul555: The finding suggests that dogs may have evolved in cold environments.

I think someone deserves to be chased by a pack of angry wolves...

I didn't read the article, just looked at the awesome top picture. Thanks for pointing this out and confirming that I didn't need to read it.

However, your cats want mittons.

Interestingly enough, this kind of countercurrent heat exchange is found in a lot of different places. One particular example is the network of blood vessels surrounding the testes in most animals with testicles inside the body cavity (whales, reptiles, etc), and to a lesser extent in animals with external testes. They're also found in animals who need to lose heat quickly (often in conjunction with large ears, to speed the process)

Cyno01: Yeah, our dog goes nuts for socks too. Clean, dirty, doesnt matter. She will steal them off your feet even.

CSB:

I once had a kitten that loved socks. She attacked my foot and chomped my sock at the toe. I lifted my foot and she hanged in there like a trooper. By gosh, that sock was HERS!

When a paw is cooled by contact with frozen ground, warmth from the arteries in the paw is transferred to the venules. This helps keep the paw at a tolerable temperature. In addition, it warms the blood before it flows back to the body - thus helping keep the dog's body temperature from falling uncomfortably low.

what the hell, huffpost?? yes, it keeps the blood from freezing, or returning overly cool in the veins, but at the obvious cost of body heat. unless you take physics lessons from astrologers...

FTFA:

The research, carried out by Dr. Hiroysho Ninomiya and colleagues at Tokyo's Yamazaki Gakuen University, was conducted with the help of an electron microscope and four willing dogs.

Four willing dogs, is it? Did you get signed consent forms?

How about I get Chelsea, and my dog can have Socks?