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.
If that is your foot you should seek a doctor
Same reasons kittens have pink beans for toes. They get roughed up and don’t stay pink and cute
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
I want beans too.
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.
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.
What life were you living where you walked a lot barefoot?
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
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 a few hundred meters on summer asphalt without a break and once 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!
edit: also if you try this i should mention that your feet pads turn black and are impossible to clean really just get to a less dark black. most other people find this offputting.
cw: gross, blood
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I would often have to pick tiny rocks and slivers of metal out of my feet when I did this because I walked to my friends house all summer and there was no sidewalk so it was on the streets.
So i had my dad’s tools like these little snippers and needle nose pliers to grab the stuff and pull it out. So one day i’m like picking at my toe where the callous is really deep and I see something black embedded in it so I start digging for it. And damn this one is deeper than most I’m snipping into the toe deeper and deeper with the metal snippers and i can’t quite reach it and it’s starting to get to sensitive tissue.
And that’s when I snip some little blood vessel in my toe that i had mistaken for embedded road debris. Ooze not squirt so i suppose it was just a big old capillary but oof it hurt and was a mess and that was the end of my messing around with my feet I started wearing shoes and socks again after that!
Thank you for reading my barefoot memoirs 😂🦶
Your feet are not suited for long distance travel because you wear shoes, just walk around a bit without them, you’ll grow callouses
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.
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We do, we gain and then but lose them in the womb. They’re called volar pads
Developmentally, our hands and feet are modifications of the same underlying genetic template, so they’re going to have similar morphology.
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.
