Monday, 15 February 2010

Introducing the dogs

Today I hurt my good wrist doing a very dangerous activity.... flushing the toilet! Luckily I didn't do this until after I'd exercised my youngest dog who thinks her name is 'Naughty'
I have 2 dogs who to avoid embarrassment for them I'll call 'Naughty' she's 3 years old and 'Terror' she is 7 years old.

At the moment my pelvis is falling apart far too often, it's too cold and too wet for me to go out on the power chair to take the dogs for their walks. So I've had to find another way to exercie Naughty. Terror is quite happy if she gets to play with Naughty teasing her with toys and stealing toys off her for a few hours during the day but if Naughty isn't entertained when poor Terror is having a nap she often gets up to all sorts of naughtiness.

The way to exercise a bored dog when you can't take it for a walk is:
-Take one bouncy toy such as a ball or even better a kong
-Sit down at the top of the stairs
-Call dog to you and show the dog the toy
-Throw toy down the stairs remembering to be very careful doing this if you may dislocate or otherwise injure yourself doing something so dangerous
-Watch dog go racing down the stairs trying to catch the toy as it bounces all over
-Hold your breath as the toy bounces up almost hitting the window near the front door
-Laugh at dog as she skids on the mat near the front door and runs into or almost runs into the front door
-Laugh at dog as she's running up the stairs with the toy because she's stumbling up the stairs yet managed to run down much quicker without falling
-Take yucky slobbery dog toy off dog and repeat above until the dog is tired and goes and lays on your bed chewing the toy until she falls asleep

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