The apartment building I live in does NOT do a good job of salting the sidewalks when it snows, then what ends up happening is it ices over and it's ridiculously slippery outside, for both me & my dog. I came across the pet friendly ice salt here, and bought an order as a sample... It's summer time now, but I still bought a few extra boxes to prepare for November-February when my building predictably slacks on salting the sidewalks.