Creative exercise and stimulation for dog

[Felix's Proud Mammy]

Originally Posted by wildo

What!??? That'd be a ridiculous amount of goldfish. You are talking about goldfish crackers, right? And you are talking about a child-sized swimming pool? Can you clarify this?

Of course! I used the smallest size pool and went to Wal-mart and got about 10-15 of the cheapest fish they had (I used goldfish as a general term) and put them in there. you don't want too many because you wnat them to have to actively have to chase them. It occupied him for a while.

[wildo]

oh- you meant REAL goldfish. I thought you meant filling a child-size swimming pool full of goldfish CRACKERS!

[Felix's Proud Mammy]

Originally Posted by pancake

Hahah what this is hilarious. Do dogs have problems eating fish with the bones and everything? i dont think my dog is big enough to eat a gold fish but I might consider something similar to this later. It gets real hot here in the summer so after winter passes by Ill invest in a small swimming pool and let her have some fun.

The things I do for this dog, I'm probably in about $2000 and it's only been 3 months

The fish I used were tiny. I just use gold sifh as a general term. basically the cheapest little tiny fish they have. But hotdogs are great too. I actually got the idea on here somewhere.

[pancake]

Originally Posted by katdog5911

What kind of remote car did you get? I have thought about this too. Sounds like a great way to work off energy on Stella's part and not mine!

Actually didnt decide to make another thread but here is good info on the basics of hobby cars. Much of what isn't really required to know but it's goodd information. RC Resources for the beginner [Read this first]

The qualities I were looking for was being able to run on grass extremely fast, without overheating and without turning over. Monster trucks will give you clearance and speed and hence less overheating but they flip over quite a bit. The best way to go is to get a very large scale buggy or truggy instead of a smaller scale monster truck. Mine is a 1/10 e-revo but it handles very well and is so big there's good clearance and no flipping over. If it's an concrete you can get away with a small rc car no problem but make sure you monitor your pet's feet so that it doesn't get hurt or damaged. Concrete running will mess the feet up. If your dog is okay with noises (some dogs love the noises, nitro sounds like a small animal whining) then you might want to go nitro. Nitro is cheaper but it's a small little engine so you need to fill up on nitro fuel and do a little tune up. Otherwise you can get lithium batteries which is the route i went because it's dead silent and I can run it at night and it's extremely quick, charges fast and pretty much a rock solid investment.

[Chicagocanine]

I would not have a puppy pulling anything, so I would hold off on the scooter until your dog is full grown, and I'd probably wait with the bike too as that type of exercise isn't really good for a puppy unless you are going at a very slow pace and then you may as well be walking with them...

[billsharp]

What!??? That'd be a ridiculous amount of goldfish. You are talking about goldfish crackers, right? And you are talking about filling a child-sized swimming pool with them? Can you clarify this?

Lol! No, REAL goldfish, in a plastic kiddie pool. They're called "feeder fish" at the pet store, used to feed snakes, lizards, etc., usually $1 each. I get the larger ones so she can see them easily in the water, about 1 1/2 inches long, and get about 10 or 12. She will methodically hunt them all down, and have fun splashing in the water at the same time. Liesl feeds raw so she loves raw fish, and no, the tiny bones in a goldfish wouldn't hurt you or me, much less a GSD.