All dog owners 'must do one thing' as Storm Bert brings 16 inches of snow to UK

Dog owners person been issued a informing implicit thing they indispensable bash arsenic Storm Bert hits the UK, with Met Office upwind warnings stating arsenic overmuch arsenic 40cm (16in) of snowfall could travel down successful immoderate places

There's 1 happening each canine owners indispensable bash arsenic Storm Bert brings dense snowfall to the UK this weekend.

The Met Office has been forced to contented respective upwind warnings. On Saturday (November 23) snow warnings screen Northern Ireland, Scotland, bluish parts of England and the Midlands. There's besides an amber warning successful spot crossed a chunk of agrarian Scotland, wherever the Met Office says 40cm (roughly 16in) of snowfall could travel down connected higher ground.

Lower crushed crossed the state could spot betwixt 5cm to 10cm of snowfall connected Saturday. And if you program connected taking your dog for a locomotion successful the crisp, wintry weather, there's thing you request to beryllium doing to support them safe.

TikTok idiosyncratic Alex (@nuggypup) documents her beingness with pooch Nugget connected the societal media app. In 1 video, she tells her followers: "If you're walking your canine retired successful the snowfall today, marque definite you bash this 1 happening erstwhile you get home."

Alex explains the grit that is utilized connected the crushed erstwhile it snows "can beryllium toxic to dogs and tin besides irritate their paws", truthful it's important that you springiness them a bully hitch down erstwhile you get home.

According to the RSPCA, stone brackish tin beryllium a information to pets specified arsenic cats and dogs "if they lick it from their paws oregon fur". It states: "Most cases [of stone brackish poisoning] impact animals that person walked done gritted snowfall and past lick oregon chew it disconnected their paws arsenic they tin find it irritating.

"It is truthful important to thoroughly hitch your pet’s feet and the fur connected his/her legs and tummy aft a locomotion oregon clip outside. If he/she is showing immoderate signs of discomfort aft imaginable vulnerability to stone salt, usage a mild, pet-safe shampoo and lukewarm h2o to lavation the affected areas, and adust your pet’s fur wholly with a towel aft washing."

The RSPCA adds that immoderate carnal suspected to person ingested stone brackish "must beryllium assessed by a vet immediately".