[nagdu] tie downs

Jeff Crouch- k8tvv k8tvv2 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 19:14:19 UTC 2015


Hi,
I graduated from pilet dogs.
I don't need it for home use, he is good there, I'm looking for
something that I could use when I'm traveling and staying at a hotel.

Thanks

On 3/26/15, Ed Meskys <edmeskys at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> A "bed chain" was a standard piece supplied by Seeing Eye from before I got
>
> my first dog in 1972. It is about a meter long, has a standard leish clip on
>
> one end, and a 2cm metal ring on the other. You can hook it to a ring screw
>
> set in the floor or wall, or to the metal rail which is on both sides of
> your bed. you loop the chain around the rail or thru the ring, and then feed
>
> the catcch thru the ring.
>
> When my second dog was new (a week or so), I kept him tied down in the
> dining room, insight of the living room and kitchen, when he was not in
> active use. SE recommended this for the first two weeks until he got used to
>
> your home, and its routines. My wife's cat walked thru the dining room, and
>
> the dog leaped to play with her. He leaped with such force that the SE chain
>
> broke. In a pet store we bought a metal chain leash and used that in the
> dining room on the same screw ring. Just like with the bed chain, I fed the
>
> dog-collar end thru the wall ring, then thru the metal ring which held the
> hand loop, and attached it to the dog's collar. It, too, was about a meter
> long, maybe a bit longer than the bed chain, and worked fine with my later
> dogs while they got acclimated to our home.
>
> Ed Meskys
>
>


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