RiverStar-Aura Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 My last Aussie Terrier Poochie was a climber but in a completely different way to yours Newfsie. Before we moved, us kids had a cubby house in the backyard with a near vertical 3 metre wooden ladder. Whenever my brothers or I were playing in it, Poochie would climb the ladder and join us! I can still see her straining her front legs as she pulled herself up each rung to reach the top. She loved being with us so much!! Getting down was another matter -- she'd roll down the rungs and shake herself off at the bottom. She was also a hopeless jumper because she'd taught herself to climb. Poochie figured she could climb everywhere -- even into the car! She was a gorgeous girl and I really miss her spirit! But she did like climbing rocks and things provided us kids were around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvus Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Love Esky in the birdbath! We don't have any gorgeous big fallen trees like you do, Newfsie. Just big boulders, here. And walls. And log fences. And the cement blocks the world seems to be dotted with. This is how we did most of our rear end awareness work: It was really more body awareness in general and balance. Kivi learnt as well, as you can see by him pushing in and trying to show me his log tricks. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newfsie Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 Great little video.....here is Annabelle jumping from one to the other concrete blocks She does city stuff too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Black Obsession Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Wow! Great photo of Annabelle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Flying Furball Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Tonka my papillon kept escaping from my friend's yard. Turns out he was climbng the craggy sandstone wall at the corner of the block and then a mesh fence, the little mountain goat. About 2 metres in height Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvus Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Great little video.....here is Annabelle jumping from one to the other concrete blocks She does city stuff too She's gorgeous! It's great to see a big dog doing this sort of stuff as well. I guess there's a perception that they are the kind of dog that just plods along beside you. Kind of like very small dogs are rarely exercised to the extent bigger dogs are, so there's a perception that they can't walk as far and so on. Someone was telling me about a Tibbie they had with a Golden Retriever. The GR was very active, so got walked for 2 hours a day. The Tibbie kept up no worries and was just a little ball of muscle. We were talking about whether I could get a very small breed and take it on some of the long and physically challenging hikes we do with our larger dogs. E is not big, but he's very strong and tough and copes well with the creek crossings and climbing up and down rocky outcrops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newfsie Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 I show my dogs ( Breeder asked me to) Several Judges have commented on how muscular my dogs are and how lean.........Mine will go forever on a cool day, but mid Summer we stay in the cool. We walk early, late or go swimming. Luckily our Obedience classes are at 8pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvus Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Maybe this is a bit off topic, but I'm wondering to what extent you have to be careful with giant breeds when doing this kind of thing with them? I remember someone on another forum with one of those big Swiss mountain dogs and he'd get sore if he did any kind of running at all. So they kept him quiet. I wonder if he really did need to be kept from running and jumping, or if he just didn't have the muscle tone to support his bulk when he was doing it, or maybe didn't have the structural stability he should have? Impossible to say for him in particular, but do you ease them into it to make sure they are going to be okay, or are they just okay regardless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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