If a dog is serious about her outdoor-lifestyle, she has to learn how to cross cattle-gates. My first dog, Pancho the miniature poodle, acted wary when he encountered his first cattle-guard. Then he walked right across on his first attempt.
My second dog, Coffee Girl, is a Nervous Nellie, but she was fairly confidant in crossing cattle-guards.
I had an easy time with a friend's dog. I don't know if it was his first attempt:
So how was Q.t.š¹ going to do on her first attempt, this morning. My goodness. She locked up and her feet were unwilling to touch the steel bars. I levitated/dragged her across the cattle guard. At least she didn't do that squeal thing of hers! It was oddly funny.
Still, she does get credit for acting a little curious about the steel bars on her second effort. There is hope.
Of course a dog can usually run around the cattle guardby crawling under a barbed wire fence. She is small enough to do that easily. But that requires training me to let go of the leash!
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I haven't tried Erik on any yet but he has a lot of fear of new things so I doubt that he will do very well. I will certainly not try to force him; with him that just makes every thing worse.
Don in Okla.
Ed, I was hoping Coffee Girl would teach Q.t.š¹ the ropes about crossing the cattle guards, but like Patches, she doesn't care for them in her emeritus years.
I'll bet Erik will turn out to be a whizz kid with cattle guards.