[Ansteorra] Dog carts at SCA events

[Stefan li Rous]

A number of folks here have probably seen the small wooden wagon  
pulled around the recent Bryn Gwlad Fall Event and the Defenders of  
the Roses event recently. A number of folks made comments about the  
wagon being cute, I guess because it is sized for our small 14 pound  
American Exkimo dog. These wagons can also be useful for hauling  
stuff around an SCA event. At the BG event, even though the wagon and  
dog are small, he pulled our fairly heavy box of feast gear to and  
from the feast area.

I bought the wagon off of e-bay and modified it by replacing the  
regular handle with the staffs and harness which I made using the  
instructions given in an article, which first appeared in Tournaments  
Illuminated in 2004.

I have now added an updated version of this article to the TRAVEL  
section of the Florilegium:
Dog-Carts-art     (24K) 11/15/06    "Dog Carts and Draft Dog Training:
                                        Directions to Convert a  
European Style
                                        Hand Wagon into a "Period"  
Dog Wagon" by
                                        Lady Rachael of Bhakail.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/TRAVEL/Dog-Carts-art.html

Eventually I'll be adding another file to this section with photos of  
our dog, Snowball, pulling our wagon and some descriptions of how our  
wagon and modifications differ from what Lady Rachael did. If anyone  
has taken any other photographs of Snowball and his wagon at those  
events, I'd love get copies of them.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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