Dolly Update: Cart and Obstacles

This entry will cover a couple of weeks.

First, my husband and I took 4 hours one day to hook up Dolly to a real cart! The hardest part was getting her used to the harness. She HATED the butt straps. At first, she kicked and kicked at them. So my husband worked her for a while. Pretty soon Dolly learned that every time she kicked, she'd be made to stop, turn, and go the other direction. To her, that's a real pain. She really hates to change direction. She soon decided that it was easier to just refrain from kicking, and thus not have to change direction so often...

Once she had that down, we were ready to walk the cart along side her, and then behind her, and then sort of connect it to her, etc...

And eventually...
(That's Dolly pulling my husband!) (and that is a little bell on the front...cute)

And after that, I got to try directing her with the actual lines (but my husband stayed nearby with the lead line, just in case anything went wrong).

As soon as I post this entry, he and I are going to go try this again.
But first, I'll post the rest of my obstacle pictures:

Dog tunnel


Click here for a really sweet (but large) picture of Dolly and my husband

Party blowers (we must have spent an hour getting her used to these! They were the only things that bothered her)


Umbrella


Silly string I didn't get a photo of the silly string in action. She didn't like it too much, but didn't freak when it hit her.


Obstacle course "Flags" and hanging streamers... which Dolly thought were great fun!!