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Originally Posted by sstrumila  Thank You Yorkiemom1!!! that is very helpful!! I have had the hardest time finding hot pink and hot orange in pet sections, so I went to children's section of walmart and found some cute newborn & 0-3 month lil' baby dresses, bathing suits and shirts that fit perfectly after a few minor alterations. Where did you get your vests?
Did the incident with the owl in the later part of your post happen even when the vests were on?
I also found some of that neon orange and reflective wide strip that you can stick on clothing that I'm going to put on each of her outfits, the reflective stripe is so blinding when you look at it in the sun.
I'm also gonna try to find some of those biker spikes that you see some people wear as chokers and armbands and try to fasten that to the back of her outfit as well so if something did try to swoop down it would have a nice lil' stab in the claw if it tried to grab her!! |
My friend who sews, custom made my vests for me. I had to REALLY
Aggie engineer" my vests.....I bought vests that people wear doing road work or work in parking lots, and also what cyclists wear....they were very light but they were the Hunter Orange the man at the zoo told me to use. They even had the blinding silver reflective stripe and my friend cut the material where she incorporated that reflective stripe down the back and down the sides of the little vests. The incident with the owl happened before the vests. I had watched years ago, as an owl swooped down and carried off my little chihuahua girl.....I have NEVER gotten over that and I have been soooooooooo protective and cautious about predator birds since that happened (1970's).....I NEVER let my dogs out unattended....even though I was with that little chihuahua, the owl still swooped down and took her.....so I keep all my dogs very close. THEN, along comes this incident with my Yorkie! I had her on a short leash, and we had just stepped out the back door for her to stand in the grass and pee along side the house.....the owl did not see me standing there, waiting patiently for Aisa to find the exact right spot, the exact right position, the exact righ direction.....and it swooped down....it came within 3 feet of me before it saw me, and pulled up so fast out of that dive, it hit the overhand on the house, flew / tumbled uncontrollably into my patio cover.....fortunately for it, it regained control before it hit the ground within my reach.
The vests you are making seem like a very good thing....sound like they will work. Those CD discs also frighten the birds with that reflection thing they do....anything that reflects brilliantly like that would work.....