Re: Dogs and Trail Riding

[Chris Paus <paus@micoks.net>]

My black lab, Bubba, the hound dog, Duke, and neighbor's golden retriever,
Santa, all follow me on all my training rides. They love it. They get quite
upset when the see Star go in the trailer because they know they will be
left behind. They get some aches and pains now and then, but they are dogs
and need to get out and go.

chris paus & star

At 08:58 AM 1/19/98 -0500, Patti_Carey@IIMAK.CCMAIL.compuserve.com wrote:
>     Good Mornin'!
>
>     I'm going to test the limits here of ridecamp, and see if we don't get
>     kicked out for asking a non-related question, but I imagine a lot of
>     you have had the same situation.
>
>     We have two GREAT trail dogs, who go out with us on all of our
>     conditioning rides (and whine miserably back in camp when we leave
>     them while competing).
>
>     The younger of the two is a black lab cross (and is so injury prone
>     --impalings on branches, porcupines, tangles with farm equipment,
>     stepped on by the lead horse on a ride, etc.-- that there was a time
>     we called her 'Deathwish Deva', who last week ripped her dewclaw while
>     playing.  Our vet wrapped it up, gave us some antibiotics, and made a
>     surgery appointment for us for TOMORROW to have both dewclaws removed
>     (since we do so much riding thru woods with the dogs).  She'll be on
>     'restricted activity' for two weeks, during which it will be difficult
>     to determine who will go lulu first, the dog (from lack of exercise)
>     or us (from having to put up with same).
>
>     So, here's the question.  Should we do it?  Have any of you done the
>     same?  Any warnings, words of wisdom, or suggestions?
>
>     To avoid clogging up the BB, please e-mail me directly at
>     patti_carey@iimak.ccmail.compuserve.com.  THANK YOU!!!   Sorry for the
>     non-equine question.
>
>     -- Patti and (its-been-over-a-year-since-I've-required-surgery) Deva
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