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Posted on 12/30/2004 7:01:16 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Good evening:)
I like your dreams:)
Alot of people around here have been building (I think we've talked about this before:) arenas that are covered, but then have canvas sides, that can be raised or lowered as the need arises. If I was building one, that is the route I'd go.
I've worked in enought barns to have lost the desire for a fully enclosed one for this area. If I moved to where the weather was more harsh, I'd want something different. In the barns around here, it seemed to me in the summer they had trouble keeping the stalled horses cool enough. Fans help, but can raise dust.
Becky
I'm anxiously waiting for hot summer as far as he is concerned. I really thought we had him over it. Still do as far as the sweating goes. He seemed to be sweating good this past summer. The problem is because he panted so much so long and had the infection he may have caused some lung damage. He may pant some all the time, which blows him for me to use as a competitive trail horse. That's why I'm going to try barrels with him and use Harley as my competitive trail horse.
Becky
Here, if it's shady, it's relatively cool, and the cooling I've thought I'd need is just the breezeway of having the aisles go all the way through, and vents in the roof. We don't have too many days of penetrating heat.
What kind of competitive trail riding are you doing? Like endurance riding?
I had thought you said he was sweating this year but he could have done major damage, not only to lungs but to his heart previously.
My barn has half walls in the interior, except for the tack room of course. The top half of the walls are pipe. I'm fortunate that I have no humidity here so just being in the shade is cooler, but I run fans in the summer time about a third of the time.
You definately have more heat than we do ;~D
I hope to find property with lots of shade, and I would not be taking every tree off the place, but rather trying to leave as much shade around the grounds as possible. I am ~not~ heat tolerant.
I think you can do that there though, you don't have the problems we have of fire. We have some trees in the corner of the yard, and a couple by the pasture fence and the chickens but we try to keep a large area around structures free of fuel.
True, even when we think we're dry, we aren't near forest fire kind of dry. It just doesn't happen. House fires, but not runaway fires.
One came within a few miles of my parents' house a couple years ago.
Yes, once you see them, you are forever impressed - and very careful.
Heh... Fair enough.... most all that needed said has been said on the thread, all that is left to do now is tear down any opposition, and the owner we'd like to help will still do whatever she wanted to do in the first place.
The trainer I would have recommended to them if they'd take the dog to Washington (they're in Oregon) is this one: http://www.kraftwerkk9.com/ Might be interesting to you and your husband.
I mean it when I say the man is a Dog God. His animals are magnificent, and I have seen him turn around both his own and other people's dogs and get them to do amazing work. But he's really expensive. I knew him way back when he was still doing regular obedience classes. And he'd enroll all his own puppies in his obedience classes as a term of their sale so he could keep tabs and make sure they became the dogs the people wanted.
I just loved watching his Schutzhund dogs work. I'd show up and just watch when I lived near him. I can't believe the price of his puppies now.
I can't get the page to come up. I'd like to look at it. I am really opposed to training dogs abusively but good trainers don't. They do teach them to mind and to respect their owners/handlers. You're right, they will do what ever they want, regardless of imput.
http://www.kraftwerkk9.com/index.php
try again?
Thank you - it works and I'm off to read.
What's up? I have got a big mess in my bedroom. I'm p/o at my husband and rearranging stuff. I can't even use snow or cabin fever as an excuse:')
What handsome dogs. I like what I read of his training methods/expectations. I bookmarked it so my husband can look at it.
Well, we worked at redesigning Hair's barn, I'm not sure why since it's beautiful as is :)
Why is your bedroom a mess?
He'll do what it takes... but he's fair.
He can read and communicate with dogs at a level I've never seen. And that is why dogs do what they do for him. I've never seen focus so intense as he gets.
It is a beautiful plan isn't it. We have to get them to start looking at property:') Everything stacked up in corners and on stuff. I dumped it all on the bed and am putting up shelves. We have no closet space. All the stuff we never wear coming out. I guess I really ought to clean him a spot of the bed to lay down though. Maybe in a little bit.
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