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Fun with the pups
With all that has been going on, I thought you might enjoy a benefit of
the hurricane Irene. We got lots of branches and setup a new fun 'find the treat' course using them. This time we snipped as needed to make tunnels that Aunti Mabel and Cash can run through. We piled the brush up and supported it as needed to make a 14x37ft 'maze' with 7 switchbacks and 3 dead ends. They are having a ball sniffing every bit of it! Aunti Mabel and Cash's favorite part? A little ramp of firewood that leads to jumping off in a leaf pile (carefully stick free and soft plumpf landing). It's at the final exit and the 'ramp' takes them up about 14 inches then leads to a 24 inch pile of leaves. They 'launch' and roll around then we rake the leaves back for them. Sorry, no video camera but hopefully I have explained it well enough for you to envision 2 pups having fun and leaping into leaf piles! -- |
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OMG! My gang would LOVE that. I get branches off the pines and pecans
every year.... I think I'll start saving 'em and shaping a "fun place"....... I've had one long ago.... logs piled in different heights and configurations.... b ut this one sounds like more fun. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Jo Wolf wrote in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
OMG! My gang would LOVE that. I get branches off the pines and pecans every year.... I think I'll start saving 'em and shaping a "fun place"....... I've had one long ago.... logs piled in different heights and configurations.... b ut this one sounds like more fun. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA Yup! We make various ones at different times. We have as much fun devising them as the pups have figuring them out. The leaves on the last one are now all gone as the branches dried out so we took it down to firewood kindling for the winter. At the moment the backyard is boring with no maze as we plot one for the weekend. I will grant a true agility trial run would be neat but my little 4foots aren't the age or medical condition to use one of that level. They are still enjoying the leaf pile though! We have to bag that up in a day or so but they have it pretty well pulverized for us and a fellow freecycler wants it for compost now that it's nicely broken up. In my mind is that dogs are like kids. They need entertainment or they go crazy on you. Current thoughts are a sort of 'limbo land' with suspended yarn (found a big bunch in the garage from when I used to knit) where they get to figure out if they should crawl under or step over (depending on size as there is quite a difference between them). I'm also looking at 2 old bicycle tires and angeling them so one end is about 18 inches up and the other is about 6 (crawl under high end, step over low end). Haven't figured out how to rig them yet with freestuff in my home. -- |
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Just before I moved here in '87, one of the family magazines had a neat
dog "tower" in it. It had a basic A-frame shape, with several wide, deep "steps" on each slope and a platform the same size on top. I'd hoped to get one built for my yard, but ended up in a place with the whole back yard on a slope.... It was maybe 4-6 feet tall. Ah, well, I only get puddles in the low corner of the yard when we've had a solid week of rain.... No mud.... so I'll do without the tower. One of our students built us a lovely sway bridge thingie for the training center of heavy wood..... a slow ramp up to a platform, then a sway bridge section of heavy boards strung on cables to another platform with a set of steps to the ground. Wooden railings along the top section.... It's probably 15-16 years old now, and the only part that we've had to replace is the surface of the ramp. Our dogs cross it single file when they're playing. Do the same thing with the agility A-frame and big 16 foot tunnel. A friend's puppy yard has a long length (20 feet) of 9 or 10 inch diameter clay drainage tile (can't find it any more) down the sloped area, and artful piles of stumps, logs, branches and boulders. Lovely Border Terrier playground.... especially after you add a plastic wading pool and a sand-filled digging pit. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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