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Old September 1st 11, 12:18 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
cshenk
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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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Old September 1st 11, 03:32 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
Jo Wolf
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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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Old September 2nd 11, 04:01 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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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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Old September 2nd 11, 08:41 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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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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Old September 13th 11, 03:50 PM
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With all that has been going on, I thought you might enjoy a benefit of
the hurricane Irene.


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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What a great inventive way of letting your dogs have fun and some great moments, and what a great way of getting something good out of H Irene!
 




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