Daniel Flores Webboard User Reg: 03-12-2006
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What do you use to make a tug for your dog, a temporary bite sleeve, Fetch toys etc?
I use a white teddy bear on a leash (she humps it sometimes to show her dominance over it, it's really cute) an old house rag to play tug with and I use my Dickies jacket as a bite sleeve (that material that Dickies uses on thier pants and jackets is really strong) but I just strated useing that.
What do you use as makeshift toys or training things. I still use realy toys also but sometimes it's more fun for my dog if it's something I put together, her fav is the bear on a string.
Carol Boche Webboard User Reg: 10-30-2005
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I started my Mali on rolled towels and strips of sheepskin with knots tied at each end. She has now chosen a jute for her favorite tugs. Retrieve toys are either the toys mentioned above or soft squishy squeaky toys, frisbees or ball/kong on a string. She LOVES to "kill" the squeaker in the soft toys. However the jute is what she will carry forever so we only use that in training sessions. Playtime is all other toys.
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i use an old bathrobe tie (duct-taped, we LOVE duct tape) taped at the ends for one tug-toy, and, (here's the great deal), went to my local hardware store/farm supply store when they got their seed potatoes in a month ago, and got 50 burlap bags for carrying them away. ie, FREE <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
these bags, rolled up and tied at the ends w/baling twine (our 2nd fav here in the boonies), have become my boy's absolute best drive-building tool. found out at training this past weekend that that drive easily transfers to a commercially-made tug.
my problem at this point is that he is too quick--i'll have to cut some twine off to make the line shorter...but i'll use it (the cut off twine), to tie off another sack.
Daniel Flores Webboard User Reg: 03-12-2006
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i use an old bathrobe tie (duct-taped, we LOVE duct tape) taped at the ends for one tug-toy, and, (here's the great deal), went to my local hardware store/farm supply store when they got their seed potatoes in a month ago, and got 50 burlap bags for carrying them away. ie, FREE <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
these bags, rolled up and tied at the ends w/baling twine (our 2nd fav here in the boonies), have become my boy's absolute best drive-building tool. found out at training this past weekend that that drive easily transfers to a commercially-made tug.
my problem at this point is that he is too quick--i'll have to cut some twine off to make the line shorter...but i'll use it (the cut off twine), to tie off another sack.
it's called "American ingenuity" i believe...
I hope you don't mindmind if I copy your potato sacks idea, because either way I'm doing it. Maybe It'll save my dickies jacket and I can use it for cold nights? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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On another thread or board, someone suggested old jeans legs rolled up, which I like. Soft old cotton Levi's which I held onto, hoping to one day wear again, but now realize the shift in gravity (caused by getting older) will never allow me to wear them again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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jute roll, if you can find decent jute here
I like the kong products
Did the jean thing with tennis balls sewed inside
cotton shop towels for young pups on the flirt pole
I use an old hand towel and tie a knot in it, they don't last long but they're great fun anyway, my puppies love this, only hazard is you cannot walk outside in a bath towel <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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