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View Poll Results: Do you allow your dog(s) outside while you mow? | |||
Dog(s) not allowed outside at all. | 104 | 80.00% | |
Dog(s) allowed outside to run free. | 5 | 3.85% | |
Dog(s) allowed outside away from the mowing area. | 21 | 16.15% | |
Voters: 130. You may not vote on this poll |
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05-30-2013, 12:42 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| Do you allow your dog(s) to be outside while you're mowing? My rule has always been no dogs or children in my yard while I'm mowing or weedwacking. It's been my rule for so long, that is just done without question. My Mom comes over to my house sometimes while I'm at work and does a bit of yard work. She'll pull weeds in my flower beds, and from between my stone edgers, and from between my patio stones. She usually takes ZoE outside to hang out with her while she's going this. But is she mows or weedwacks, ZoE gets put inside, and looks out the window watching. I just saw my neighbor two doors down mowing & his dog is out running aroung his riding mower...it's scaring the heck out of me. So, what do you do while your mowing?
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05-30-2013, 12:52 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member | First of all I don't ever mow but my DH does. Our dogs are small & could easily be run over! I don't even let the kids in the grass when he is mowing. They have to stay on the deck or in the house! I know a Grandma that backed over her granddaughter and cut her up pretty bad!
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05-30-2013, 01:17 PM | #3 |
Princess Sophie's Choice Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Clinton, IL, DeWitt County
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| Our pets are NEVER outside when we are mowing the grass or doing any trimming of bushes or trees. It's just too dangerous for them and for us. That's our rule and I'm sticking to it. LOL It isn't just that the mower throws grass, twigs, and other things out so quickly that our dogs might get hit by flying debris but how can we possibly do a good job moving if we need to keep an eye out on our pets in case they get too close to the mower? The machine can hurt your pet and the machine can hurt you if you have to dodge a moving target in the yard. I would also be very concerned about the neighbors mowing with their pet running around. Unfortunately, I don't think there's anything you or I can do about it. Someone else might have other ideas. Good luck and it's obvious that you know what you are doing with your pets, good for you!!
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05-30-2013, 01:19 PM | #4 | |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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The young boy, lost his leg. It's stuck in my mind ever since, partially just from the horror of it, but also from what the surgeons did with the leg. The ankle was ok, but the lower leg was mangled and the knee destroyed. She was faced with having to chose, in a matter of minutes, whether to have his whole leg amputated, or go with an experimental surgery, which if successful, might improve is mobility, but if it wasn't, he'd end up having the leg amputated anyway, and there was an increased risk with each additional surgery. She chose the experimental surgery. So, the surgeons took the boy's ankle and put it as the "new knee" by attaching the ankle backwards. They told her this would be the boy's best option for having the most functional artifical leg attachment, as he'd have a "knee" joint. I'm incredibly squeamish, so I hated listing to her talking about it, but at the same time was so fascinated by the procedure. It stuck with me all these years and scared the heck out of me about lawn mowers, which is why I chose to be extra cautious.
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05-30-2013, 01:35 PM | #5 |
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| Never would I allow my dog to be outside while mowing is taking place.
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05-30-2013, 05:34 PM | #6 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Callie is definitely not allowed outside when there is mowing going on. I worry she could get out of the fence when the mower is coming in and I worry she could get hurt.
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05-30-2013, 06:01 PM | #7 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Colorado
Posts: 331
| I never allow my dogs out (or children for that matter) when mowing. I've also seen how rocks and such can be shot out of the mower and have broken windows and put dents in the house siding..can you imagine if it hit your dog or child?? Debbie Tea', Katie and Paige |
05-30-2013, 06:03 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: montana
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| no, morgan stays inside |
05-30-2013, 09:55 PM | #9 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2013 Location: Bakersfield, California, USA
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| We have gardeners that mow our lawn, and quite frankly I don't trust them to be careful. Just last week they left the gate open and I had that escaping fiasco!
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05-31-2013, 01:29 AM | #10 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Alabama
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| I wouldn't even entertain the thought of it! My baby usually stays on a gated deck well above the mowing area in the back or watches from inside the house through our glass storm front door so that he will know where we are & what we're doing---he's still having some separation anxiety issues & that helps somewhat. |
05-31-2013, 10:07 AM | #11 |
LovingLifeWithAnimals Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pinson, AL
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| Oh no, Crison & Dooley would prob chase it eating at the tires. Nightmare waiting to happen. It is best to keep them babies inside.
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05-31-2013, 10:23 AM | #12 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Tennessee
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| Absolutely NOT! I saw my dad hit a baby rabbit with the mower when I was a kid and it's terrified me ever since.
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05-31-2013, 10:28 AM | #13 |
LovingLifeWithAnimals Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pinson, AL
Posts: 2,048
| My husband had to pull our neighbor out of the ditch (tiny little one) b/c his mower rolled over. I also think a distance family member lost a toe with a mower.
__________________ Ann & Milo, Buttons, Dooley, Mr. Bigglesworth, & Crimson The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:10 |
05-31-2013, 11:11 AM | #14 | |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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05-31-2013, 11:16 AM | #15 | |
LovingLifeWithAnimals Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Pinson, AL
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Oh my... I had to pick my heart off the ground. One time, my Dh left the gas tank sitting on the retaining wall at our house and it swelled and exploded. Now, my fil cuts our grass while we aren't home but DH does the weeding. I also stay inside b/c I'm almost blind in one eye and am scared to death of something hitting me in my good eye. You just never know what can happen and when!
__________________ Ann & Milo, Buttons, Dooley, Mr. Bigglesworth, & Crimson The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:10 | |
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