Snowboarding w/ Dogs: Caution

[ski&ride]

Last night I learned the hard way that it's dangerous to snowboard with your dog chasing you. Plummet & I were just playing on a little hill, pushing each other off a snowbank & making 2-3 turns. My :dog: was loving it, running after us & having a blast. But then she decided to run right in front of Plummet's board, which cut up her front paw very badly. :( Fortunately, there is a 24hr vet clinic in Nashua, NH. Also, the 2 cuts went down to the tendon but didn't sever it. She is doing fine after getting her stitches.

I wanted to write about this just to let people know to be careful if you ski or ride with your dog. I wasn't thinking about the consequences at the time, until it was too late. The vet told us this was the 3rd dog w/ a snowboard injury he's seen this winter.

On a lighter note, temps here in NH remain low, & we've seen a little dusting of snow.

ski&ride

[BladeGirl]

Glad to hear she is OK!

Maybe the thing to do is train your dog to ride ON the snowboard ....
:happydog:
-BG

[pepperdawg]

Poor pooch :(

Glad to hear she is recovering....

[el-bagr]

Yikes, thanks for the warning. I wonder how one could train the dog to avoid running in front of the snowboard. I know that on dry land, my Aussie is fast enough to keep up with me at any pace, and still has enough energy to turn in front and whack my legs. With steel edges, that would be bad.

I have seen dogs trained to surf on the front of longboards, and just read about a water-skiing squirrel (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_758192.html):

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/45231.jpg

[DMC]

Glad you dog is OK...

[Skilasnow]

Well I know that the shock collars are quite effective. Some people say that they are inhumane, but I disagree. I shocked myself with one before my sister put it on her dog to train her to stay on our property. It was mild and as described, like walking across a rug and touching a doorknob. Even if this is considered inhumane I still think that doing this once and allowing your dog to run free on your property is more humane than keeping it tied up. Same would go for the snowboarding, most dogs, especially younger dogs, could be trained quickly and easily, even without such extreme measures as a shock collar, to run behind or beside you so as to not risk injury.

I'm glad she is OK. Was your vet tech's name Wanda? I know a vet tech that works (or used to anyway) at the 24 hour place in Nashua.

[Mumster]

Sorry to hear about the dog, ski&ride. :( I agree it's hard to predict what an animal :cooldog: will do, or which way it will go. So, we always leave ours at home.

I almost skied over a squirrel the other day - it was vacilating back and forth as I approached, and then jumped right in front of me. :eek: Squirrels aren't as endearing as dogs, but it still would have been HORRIBLE if I mowed him over.

[Mumster]

BTW, I hope Plummet is all right. She must have felt terrible.

[Plummet]

I'm Going home at lunch to check on our doggy friend. Poor thing has to wear one of those cone collars for at least a few days... We have had our share of dog injuries while trying to show her a fun time. You really have to be careful with winter activities. Keep hikes in snow and icy conditions to an hour unless your dog is outdoors all the time. The vet says, if you are cold, so is your dog.

:skierpetrified:

[M@]

I checked our aussie for coldness... using an infrared thermometer, and found this;
me in the outfit I wore to the Pats game on saturday - the temp of my jacket outside layer after sitting outside for a few min was about 5 degrees.

Lego the dog, after sitting for the same ammount of time was 0 degrees... i.e. she wasn't loosing any wheres near as much heat as me.

She loves being outside in the cold, can't get her in sometimes.

M@

[Mumster]

My dog :cooldog: hates the cold. She tries to quickly go :outhouse: without squatting. Then she rushes back into the house.

[ski&ride]

Skilasnow:
I'm glad she is OK. Was your vet tech's name Wanda? I know a vet tech that works (or used to anyway) at the 24 hour place in Nashua. I didn't catch the vet tech's name, because I was a little stressed out about the dog. I know the Doctor's name was Mark.

We both felt really bad about the accident. I think the most nerveracking part about it was waiting for the procedure to be over, since she had anesthesia. Otherwise, she never seemed to be in pain, which I'm glad about. She loves playing in the snow & doesn't seem to mind the cold. We just keep it to an hour, since she's an indoor dog during the weekdays.

ski&ride

[BladeGirl]

Speaking of psychotic squirrels, check out this story:

http://ns.noop.org/msgReader_287.html

-BG

<small>[ January 14, 2004, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: M@ ]</small>

[TheOctopus]

Glad there's no real harm done and that everyone is recovering nicely.

Mum, I can sympathize with your squirrel situation. Once skiing in the Frontier at MRG I flushed a pheasant or grouse (I have no idea what the thing was), scaring the hell out of us both. Nearly wrecked and whacked a tree. My skiing companions of course thought this was hilarious.

[Skilasnow]

BladeGirl:
Speaking of psychotic squirrels, check out this story:

http://ns.noop.org/msgReader_287.html

-BG I have to ask, how did you find that story?

[BladeGirl]

Odd to see my photo attached to a post by M@! I'll take the Merlot, though.

Skilasnow:
BladeGirl:
Speaking of psychotic squirrels, check out this story:

http://ns.noop.org/msgReader_287.html

-BG I have to ask, how did you find that story? Someone sent it to an IRC Bladeguy was on. For some reason could not get the original link to work, so he copied it to our server and I posted it here.

-BG

[Mumster]

TheOctopus
Mum, I can sympathize with your squirrel situation. Once skiing in the Frontier at MRG I flushed a pheasant or grouse (I have no idea what the thing was), scaring the hell out of us both. Nearly wrecked and whacked a tree. My skiing companions of course thought this was hilarious.TheOctopus:
Sounds scarey. My ski friends also thought the squirrel incident was funny -
Glad you missed the tree -

[NtrentT]

Sorry about the dog,

The squirrel and the motorcycle is un-believeable, HAHAHA

I would of gone back and ran it over for that amt of trouble it gave me.


Hope the pup is doing fine.

[TenSeven]

Maybe its time for this:

For your dog. (http://www.thedogisland.com/)

:sun:
:dog: