Baymule
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I gave Trip plastic gallon milk jugs to play with. Cheap, readily available, and easily disposed of. 
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Ours don't. We use the folgers plastic coffee tubs with no lid. They carry them, toss them, pummel them...
On the flip side it seems our goats and dogs are OCD they stack empty water buckets and if the wrong bucket gets put in the "wrong" field them are ever so helpful and take them to where they are suppose to be.
We use the heavy duty black round feeders for their food.
On the flip side it seems our goats and dogs are OCD they stack empty water buckets and if the wrong bucket gets put in the "wrong" field them are ever so helpful and take them to where they are suppose to be.
We use the heavy duty black round feeders for their food.
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Bruce
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No empty milk jugs available today so I took the wrapper off a 1/2 gallon plastic juice bottle. Made a nice toy, he played with it a reasonable amount.
Went to TSC today to get colorful 2 gallon buckets (set of 4), dog food and a strainer for the H-brace. They had no strainers
For the moment, the "brace wire" is a ratcheting tie down strap. I need to order more leadout wire from Premier 1, guess I'll add a strainer to my cart.
Looked at the dog "treats" and picked up a pig femur. When I got home all the dog stuff stayed in the car while I put the brace in the gate. While I was working, he started barking at something toward the northwest. For the longest time I couldn't see anything but eventually 3 deer showed up at the edge of the woods by the field. Odds are very good that they are the doe with her twins that were born behind the pond last spring INSIDE the weasley fence. I don't think she'll be having any more babies there. I told Merlin they were friends and he didn't need to bark at them. Of course I have zero confidence that meant anything to him.
When I finished with the gate I brought the buckets, with the bone in them, from the car and put them on the workbench in the barn. Went back for the bag of food. When I got back the buckets were on the ground and the plastic wrapped bone was in Merlin's mouth.
I hadn't planned on giving it to him right away.
I also hadn't thought about how keen his nose is. Probably best he found it then rather than work his way some time later into the room where I have his food can. Seeing as how the plastic probably doesn't add much to the flavor of the bone, has no nutritional value and likely isn't great for his digestive system, I took it away from him to unwrap. Not knowing how food aggressive he is of course I was not pushy. He resisted for about 1/2 second then gave it up. GOOD BOY! I got the plastic off and he took it outside.
Went to TSC today to get colorful 2 gallon buckets (set of 4), dog food and a strainer for the H-brace. They had no strainers
For the moment, the "brace wire" is a ratcheting tie down strap. I need to order more leadout wire from Premier 1, guess I'll add a strainer to my cart.Looked at the dog "treats" and picked up a pig femur. When I got home all the dog stuff stayed in the car while I put the brace in the gate. While I was working, he started barking at something toward the northwest. For the longest time I couldn't see anything but eventually 3 deer showed up at the edge of the woods by the field. Odds are very good that they are the doe with her twins that were born behind the pond last spring INSIDE the weasley fence. I don't think she'll be having any more babies there. I told Merlin they were friends and he didn't need to bark at them. Of course I have zero confidence that meant anything to him.
When I finished with the gate I brought the buckets, with the bone in them, from the car and put them on the workbench in the barn. Went back for the bag of food. When I got back the buckets were on the ground and the plastic wrapped bone was in Merlin's mouth.
I hadn't planned on giving it to him right away.
I also hadn't thought about how keen his nose is. Probably best he found it then rather than work his way some time later into the room where I have his food can. Seeing as how the plastic probably doesn't add much to the flavor of the bone, has no nutritional value and likely isn't great for his digestive system, I took it away from him to unwrap. Not knowing how food aggressive he is of course I was not pushy. He resisted for about 1/2 second then gave it up. GOOD BOY! I got the plastic off and he took it outside.
CntryBoy777
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Now Bruce....ya honestly didn't think ya was going to lay a Bone down....in an area that, that big of a dog is in....and think he isn't going to 'Sniff' it out....did ya?....
that little plastic wrap is like the paper on a tootsie roll Pop to a child....it is just 'In the Way'....an 'AfterThought'....he makes his 'Livin' with his nose....and there's always Room for just a little More on a dog that Size.....bet he enjoys the Buckets....After the Bone!!.....
that little plastic wrap is like the paper on a tootsie roll Pop to a child....it is just 'In the Way'....an 'AfterThought'....he makes his 'Livin' with his nose....and there's always Room for just a little More on a dog that Size.....bet he enjoys the Buckets....After the Bone!!.....
Reminds me that I always used to give my dogs a smoked pig ear after their bath. One time I took them out in advance of the bath and turned my back for a second and they were gone. Never underestimate the power of the snout! 
Mike CHS
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Every once in awhile I take Maisy a treat. She usually comes trotting up the fence line as soon as one of us goes out and probably 25-30 feet away she can pick up on whether or not she has a treat. As soon as I get inside she starts trying to stick her snout in the pocket that has the treat.
CntryBoy777
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Those goats are that way too...they can Smell it coming...especially if the Wind is from the Right direction.
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Bruce
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Bucket #1 stayed in the barn about 4 hours max. I don't know precisely how long. I fed the animals about 4:30. I inatalled a bucket hanger in the little room where I had put his food dish because it has a wooden floor. Not a nice even nor level floor but no pine shavings from the chicken coop. I put the hanger just high enough that the bottom of the bucket could sit on the floor. Went out at 9 to say goodnight, no bucket. I looked past the gate into the barnyard on my way out. Yep, there is the bucket. I didn't check for damage, I'll do that in the morning.
Nice of you to keep the big lug supplied with new toys. 
