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.
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.
Walking on some surfaces is downright pleasurable. Dewy morning grass or a dry hard packed dirt trail for instance
The answer is evolution. Put shoes on dogs and in few hundred thousand years their paws will be like humans.
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?
Not OP, but I didn’t wear shoes as a young man living in a beach town, surfing, and just chillaxing.
If they’re anything like my tree hugging mom, then just for kicks I guess.
Correct
Kicks without kicks.
And don’t get me started on keratinized dicks
Yes, please don’t start.
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.
Google gorilla feet.
Spray-on shoes!
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 while you’re there, too. That way, under international law, nobody owns it.
I’d recommend a Boeing spacecraft instead, ocean is still reachable by commoners.
If you take a Boeing spacecraft, you risk ending up in the ocean anyway.
Google gorilla feet in Minecraft
Your feet are not suited for long distance travel because you wear shoes, just walk around a bit without them, you’ll grow callouses
Same reasons kittens have pink beans for toes. They get roughed up and don’t stay pink and cute
Trees. We went into the trees before we came back down and walked on two feet.
My feet smell like Fritos
Developmentally, our hands and feet are modifications of the same underlying genetic template, so they’re going to have similar morphology.
Walk around barefoot and you’ll get calluses similar to what you want. The more shoes you wear, the fewer calluses you’ll get.
Alternatively, line your shoes with sandpaper and toss some gravel in there
Great way of deterring foor fungus, is to not have the skin to begin with.
we use shoes, this keeps our feet from developing the callouses you see shoeless animals do.
this is a modern human thing, not a genetic human trait.
Your feet develop this texture if you walk barefoot a lot.
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Because we are primates, and none of our forest-dwelling ancestors had paws.
Humans developed footwear before we started walking long distances. We didn’t evolve for it, we built tools that let us do things we couldn’t do before.
It’s just you. You’re weak, and soft, because you’ve been trained by society to wear shoes.
There are many people who never wear shoes, and they have tough soles. From indigenous tribes, to modern Olympic athletes.
That said, even your dog can step in sharps and hurt their feet; cuts, thorns, stabs - shoes provide protection that paws and tough soles do not; this is the main reason we wear footwear.
If you’re interested in a more back-to-nature approach without giving up extra protection, there are dozens of companies that sell minimalist footwear - in essence, modern moccasins. Vibram is one such, but there are many more. Fitkicks is a cheap version (~$20). Look for “active” and “water shoes.”
Sorry - not true. This dog lives on the couch and has barely set foot outside.
They come with paw feet naturally. I want that too, not to go harden my foot pads by walking on rocks and buying fancy nature shoes
They walk around inside barefoot. Despite the cushiness of their surroundings, they nonetheless don’t wear socks and shoes.
Believe it or not I also don’t wear shoes inside the house 😁
If that is your foot you should seek a doctor
