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Pup tent!!!
I wasn’t certain where to put this, but today, on a morning visit/walk with my friends, Charlie & Abbey, I decided to bring out a little pop-up kiddie tent and see what they thought about it.
A little about the pups: Charlie is a 5-year old mixed breed and I’ve been his daily walker since he was 5 months old. Abbey is his new little sister, a 5 month old Catahoula leopard dog/Border collie mix. Both are very curious and up to trying new things, so this was an experiment.
I’m including some photos. I fully expected Abbey to hop into it first, just her personality. But they surprised me. Charlie was more curious about this new tent that I introduced to him first as a pancake in the bag, treating them both for curiosity. After that, I opened it slowly. I placed it in the head and went to get my treats (Turkey jerky bits!) and was going to crawl into it myself…but Charlie beat me to it!
The rest is: Charlie stick his head in, (treat on tent floor), then paws, paid, went in it (I was careful so that it didn’t roll over on it’s side…it comes with stakes, but I didn’t use them yet. Both are small enough dogs and once Abbey saw the fun and treats, she quickly conducted her own investigation. Lots of tiny jerky bits made them love the tent. ❤️
Funny: we afterwards went for our walk and left the tent up. When we came back, Charlie saw it and immediately growled, then remembered he liked the tent (“good boy’s” from me and treat treat for changing his mind!)
I thought I’d ask who else experimented with their dogs with new fandangled items they might never have seen before and reinforces for resilience and good associations? It’s fun. ????
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So sorry, I am not sure why I never get the option to include photos/videos in my initial new topic. I always have to post them as a reply.
Here they are!
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These are great, @bernerlabreclectus ! What a creative idea. The dogs clearly enjoyed it. Enrichment was the perfect spot to post it.
Regarding the tech issue… are you using the app? It’s buggy and annoying at times; noted. My work-around is to just use the website by having a shortcut directly to the website on my phone. It’s easier and there are no problems. Hope that helps!
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Also – Abbey’s getting so big! She’s so stinkin’ cute!
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❤️❤️❤️????. She is! Easy to love.
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Ha! Yes, I thought it was a nice way to show them how fun human things (potentially scary ones!) are surprising and fun. Charlie really surprised me! I thought Abbey would be the first one in. She’s bit of a sunshine-y bulldozer!
In regards to her getting so big, I think she will definitely be bigger than Charlie. ????
Also, about the tech, I’ve been using the app since you’ve launched it and even have deleted and reloaded it twice. But, I have always had this issue, and I am using the iPhone 14. Not sure anything can fix it! I have also posted the issue in the tech thread, but it wasn’t answered, I don’t think.
No worries, but I feel like my threads with photo get lost sometimes, because they don’t post as a unit altogether!
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Thanks for the heads up – and it does sound like ditching the app for a browser shortcut is the way to go for your device – here’s how:
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For iPhone, go to Safari, open DD, hit that share button and click Add to Home Screen.
- For Android, go to Chrome, open DD, click the three dots in the upper right, click Install App – and a shortcut will be added to your home screen.
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Thank you, @catherine . I will try that instead, when I intend to post a new thread with pics. ????
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