Submitted 3 months ago by Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Humans are bi-pedal animals who walk extensively over long distances. However our feet are soft and not well suited to the task. However dogs, monkeys, and other animals have paws that serve as shoes to protect the feet.
No other mammal has such unprotected - but we are known for walking the farthest distances / nomadic behavior. Is this a joke?
I want paw feet instead of shoes.
As others have said, you wear shoes, keeping your feet soft. There was a time in my life I walked everywhere, and did it barefoot. My feet became pretty well calloused and protected, to the point I could walk on gravel no problem. Even hot pavement wasn’t too bad.
What life were you living where you walked a lot barefoot?
If they’re anything like my tree hugging mom, than just for kicks I guess.
I would love to see a picture of your paw feet 😂
I have since re-shod myself for many years, losing my rough pads. Unfortunately, I did not take any feet pics in that phase of my life.
your dog’s claws need a trim
Trees. We went into the trees before we came back down and walked on two feet.
Google gorilla feet.
That sounds like an invitation to be put on a list.
Well your first problem is using Google.
Gotta use Duck Duck Go + Tor + VPN on a burner phone you can yeet into the middle of international waters when you’re done. Make sure to sink the boat, too. That way, under international law, nobody owns it.
Google gorilla feet in Minecraft
Spray-on shoes!
Your feet develop this texture if you walk barefoot a lot.
personal anecdote; I spent a year barefoot as a teen after dropping out of high school. The only time I had anything on my feet was orthodontist visits they said i couldn’t go on without flip flops but nowhere else cared.
After about a year of this the callous on the bottom of my feet was so thick i could walk short distances on summer asphalt with zero pain and got a small square of windshield glass embedded in my foot and it just plucked right out and left a square hole, zero pain at all. The pads were about 3/4 cm thick at the ball of my foot and 1/2cm at the heel.
I did this after reading about this effect in a book and wanting to see if it was true and it really was!
if I had dog hindpaws for feet I’d get rich from onlyfans
You have to walk… barefoot. My feet are messed up and I have some impressive callouses on the balls of my feet. They are a little better after surgery, but recovery sucked. Ultimately, your feet build up protection. Caking on mud probably helped. Animal skins, rudimentary sandals from various plants, and other natural resources could provide extra protection. Unfortunately, we have built an environment made for shoes and evolution is doing the rest. Walking on pavement is not great without shoes. Especially when it bakes. Walking on soil and grass feels a lot better.
I’d argue it’s not always comfortable for them. Consider how hot black pavement can get on a summer day. I never make my dog walk across a parking lot when it’s been baking under a 100 degree sun. I carry him to a shaded area, at least.
Same reasons kittens have pink beans for toes. They get roughed up and don’t stay pink and cute
I want beans too.
Developmentally, our hands and feet are modifications of the same underlying genetic template, so they’re going to have similar morphology.
Your feet are not suited for long distance travel because you wear shoes, just walk around a bit without them, you’ll grow callouses
My feet smell like Fritos
The answer is evolution. Put shoes on dogs and in few hundred thousand years their paws will be like humans.
If that is your foot you should seek a doctor
medusa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Walk barefoot, toughen up your feet. I prefer having thumbs and hands to paws.
Plibbert@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean honestly this is the answer. I used to long board barefoot as a teenager and I also ran track. Often ran barefoot. By the time I was 16 I could walk on some glass without bleeding.
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
TBF, walking on glass is a fairly common sideshow trick
cashmaggot@piefed.social 3 months ago
Yeah shoes were optional for a solid chunk of change of my lifetime and I used to have some real rough feet and damn do I miss them =P! How do you do nowadays? I am still pretty minimalist. I like the heel of my shoes to be as thin as I can take them. But hiking, when I use those minimalist shoes I keep torturing myself my poking a fat rock right into a nerve that sends pain rushing up my being =P! I don't think I'll ever have it like I used to.
Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thumbs are cool. I’m talking paw feet