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Humans are always applying lotions and oils to their skin and to their baths. It seems only right that dogs and cats should get lotion and oils especially when their paw pads are cracking. Applying fragrance-free and natural oils and lotions are best, since your dog will choose to lick off the excess. You can apply these oils and lotions while spending some quality time with your pet.
But you can't only treat the paw pad from the outside. You need to treat it from the inside as well. Giving your dog or cat vitamin E in their diet is one way. Another way is to give them minerals in their food. Zinc and Selenium are great healers for cracked paw pads also.
Soften the pads with Vitamin E oil by breaking open a capsule and spreading it over the paw. If our animals weren't exposed to hot pavement, icy walkways or running in gravel, we wouldn't need to do this. But dogs will get into everything and we need to take care of their feet as we would ours.
Another reason for cracked paw pads is lack of water in their system, kidney failure and infections such as parasites. If you dog or cat has cracked paw pads and you have tried everything to heal them, then you need to take them to a veterinarian.
Your pet cannot tell you when something is wrong. Look over your animals and examine them very closely for any odd sores or problems that can arise overnight. Many pets have a lot of hair between their toes, so if they get sore, you would never know until you examined them closely.
With cats, don't worry about putting Vitamin E on their paw pads, as long as you took the Vitamin E from a capsule, if they lick it, they won't get sick.
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