[Sca-cooks] Dogs in SCA households

[Stefan li Rous]

St. Phlip writes:
 > Might also look at the local Agway
 > or equivalent. They often will sell the nub horns for doggie chew  
toys
 > for very cheap- and they're another good group for giving things to
 > kids.

Eeep.  I think I do NOT want to teach my dog that horns are chew toys, I
could lose a good drinking horn that way.  Same reason I have to  
store my
leather stock AWAY from Tegan -- I cannot trust her to be able to
distinguish between a rawhide bone that is for her from the
not-necessarily-good-grade-may-include-chemicals rawhide from Leather
Factory that I bought for drum heads.

Love,
Selene and Tegan the wonder dog
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Sigh. Yes. My lady wife has a lot of beanie babies. We learned very  
quickly when we adopted our dog last fall that the door to the room  
with the beanie babies has to stay closed. Snowball can't tell the  
difference between the toys he is allowed, nay encouraged, to chew on  
and those beanie babies.

I am in the final stages of converting a wooden wagon and making a  
harness so that Snowball can pull it. We have been taking him to SCA  
events when it has been allowed and the wagon is for that, as well as  
for around the neighborhood. He has a lot of energy, so hopefully  
this will burn off some of it. At 14 pounds, he can probably only  
pull around 42 pounds (3X their weight), but with the wagon weighing  
in at about 19 pounds after modifications, he should even be able to  
help with waterbearing and such, at least some.

I'll be working on getting an updated version of Rachel of the Barony  
of Bhakail's article on dog carts and dog cart training which  
appeared in the Winter 2004 TI into the Florilegium in the near future.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
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