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A reader built a breed-aware app for hot-pavement dog safety

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 09, 2026
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NorthPaw dog app

After we posted about Pawmometer, the free site that reads live weather to flag pavement hot enough to burn a dog’s paws, reader Chris Fiegel wrote in to say he’d built a phone-sized take on the idea. His iOS app, NorthPaw, computes what it calls a “NorthPaw Index” from your dog’s specific biology — snout profile, coat type, activity lev…

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