Recently Poppy and Mommy bought us a special ramp designed to help dogs get in and out of cars. Teddy and I have a hard time jumping into the CR-V, and Mom and Poppy were worried we were going to hurt ourselves, because we hate being air lifted out each time we go for a ride.
Phoebe and I love having the ramp. Not only has it made car rides much less stressful for us, but we have also started to have Mom and Poppy set up obstacle courses in the backyard with it. Poppy brought out the tunnel and set it up so that we can run up the ramp onto the plastic picnic table out back (that is about three feet off the ground) run across the plastic table, run down a ramp Poppy built with some sanded lumber, and then run straight through the tunnel! I started doing it the minute it was complete, but Teddy acted nonchalant and pretended to be not interested. Then, as soon as Mom and Poppy went inside, he ran straight up the ramp and laid down on the picnic table to take a nap. Mom saw him from the upstairs window in Lucy’s room, and as soon as he heard her laughing, he got down. But from then on he didn’t try to hide his desire to run up and down the ramp. He and I spent the next playing on it with mom and Poppy. Teddy is a natural at the ramp, but he takes his sweet time coming out of the tunnel! I have to bark at him to hurry up!
Our other favorite game with the tunnel is during our chase sessions, Teddy will run into the tunnel and I have to try and figure out which way he will come out. He likes to trick me! He stays in there for a minute trying to confuse me, and I run back and forth between the two ends waiting to pounce!
Anyway, here are some pictures of us playing with Mom supervision!
Don’t you wish you had a ramp-tunnel obstacle course?!
We are off to play some more!
Much love,
Teddy and Phoebe
Wow–ramps, tunnel/dog walks–you guys have so much fun. Maybe our Mom will put out some equipment as soon as this wind stops and we can have a blast too. Finn says he can levitate so he doesn’t need no stinkin ramp to get in the van but I always need a ride up cause I’m so small. I’m going to be a better agility dog though–ha! ha!