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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  This sounds like an absolutely fabulous two weeks!!! I am sooooooo jealous! I wish I had 3 babies and could get away for 2 weeks! Have a WONDERFUL exciting fun, fun, fun time!!! Please take LOTS of pictures and share them...your videos are great too!!! Will you be doing dock diving with Dara and Magic? Razzle is also going to have a wonderful, happy time, swimming, fetching, playing with the BRT's, and socializing with the guests! |
Well for sure RAzzle and Magic for dock diving, and depending on how Dara does and her confidence I might be able to get her to do a few dock dives too
I always make sure a new dog is a very confident swimmer before introducing dock diving. It is scarey for a dog to jump off the dock, and if coupled with I am not too sure in the water, well lets just say it is better to have them comfy swimming.
And have you seen the video Gals and Dogs in Trent Hills? Ilona and I were up together with a dozen dogs for 4 or 5 days
I had 2 she had 10 lol lol. That was the year I lost Zoey. But at least one of the videos showed me in the water introducing three of Ilona's dogs to dock diving.
I know it is rare to find a place that allows a multitude of dogs, but if you can convince them, and then show them you leave the place very clean, you leave no dog poop around etc, they are more open to the next visit.
I also bring covers for their furniture, although my big dogs are trained to not lay on the furniture, my Razzman is not, spoiled brat that he is
And RAzzle is totally house trained and outside trained, but still I crate him at night, mainly to keep him safe from Blackies stepping on him.
I just need to purchase some more Xpens for the huge deck. My escape artist Razzle found out new and unique ways of confounding the gates and the couple of Xpens I had. okay so one way he did it, and get this the deck at this point is anywhere from 4-5 feet off the ground, he squeezed between the bars, and tiptoed along the 3" side of the deck that was outside of the bars to merrily go down the outside of the stairs and onto to ground. We had Xpenned off the three gates and had no more Xpens left... I barred off that exit with chairs slung sideways, then he went to the other gate. That got barred off too. Then he learnt to balance up on the side of the chair climb down and go out through the bars.... Sigh. Mostly he ran down to the water, or if a person was outside went to say hi. Not to mention the birds in the feeders, and the occasional squirrel that had the temerity to run past his deck! I should never have taught him agility!!
Eventually I was forced to keep him on a 20 foot lead while he was out on the deck . That scamp
