Bridges

[Selina27]

All out daily walks feature water of some kind, and therefore bridges to, which are many and varied, ranging from the functional to the ornate. Here is Cassie this morning on the plank bridge which she first toddled across aged 10 weeks! How cute she was!

It's quite high, over five foot drop I'd say.
Posing for the camera is not her favourite thing to do!

 

[FayRose]

Ah, bless her, she looks completely unfazed crossing that bridge. Molly would have the heebyjeebies about that, she's not at all keen on bridges, and even worse on anything narrow.
Lovely expression when posing is not Cassie's favourite pastime

 

[Atemas]

Aah. Think that would freak Red out. Not a bridge but she found walking on Southwold Pier and Cromer Pier difficult last year

 

[Selina27]

I think Cass would rather a bridge than get her paws muddy! She's not all keen on mud.

 

[Atemas]

She's not all keen on mud

No Red neither. She ‘skirts’ around puddles and mud

 

[kateincornwall]

This is a rope bridge , it terrified me but Sam loved it , he would charge back and forth, making the blasted thing swing around !

 

[MellowYellow]

When we were on holiday in the Alps with the dogs there were some really scary metal bridges to cross ravines with rivers. Poor Poppy found it very stressful indeed - one time OH had to carry her over!

 

[FayRose]

at the rope bridge @kateincornwall , that would terrify me, let alone Molly !

 

[Candy]

Me too!

 

[kateincornwall]

It was a new bridge , recently constructed in Stara Woods . Prior to this , a pathway led to an old stone foot bridge but the bridge began to collapse so this was put in place .When I got to it , I thought No way am I going over that , but little Millie who we had at the time went barrelling across , swiftly followed by Sam , both stood waiting for me at the other side ! I stepped onto it whereupon Sam set off running to me , causing the bridge to sway , me gripping on for grim death whilst he ran past me and then once at the end ,set off again . Needless to say, I have never been back and have no intention of ever doing so !

 

[SteffiS]

One of my other boys would not walk across a wooden bridge. Sometimes this was fine and he just went through a stream or ditch, but as he also didn’t like getting his tummy wet, I often ended up taking long detours to avoid a bridge .

 

[Loraseal]

Hunter does not do little bridges either. Even if I lay a path of cooked chicken to the other side. Luckily the majority of canal bridges close to us are nice and wide and they do not count as a bridge for Hunter! Going to the Lake District in a couple of weeks so we may have to make "huge" detours or all of us get very wet or he will be carried across!

 

[Selina27]

Funny isn't it how they can just take against some things. I suppose Cass was doing these things from and early age. But to be fair, she's not fazed by much in life. Although, as yet she hasn't come across (literally ) a rope swing bridge, I shall have to find one!

 

[Emily]

It is funny, isn't it.

When I first tried to use a target board for Ella, she did everything in her power to avoid putting her paw on the "strange platform".

On the other hand, we found ourselves at the top of a steep, high, set of open metal stairs (open between the steps and open within the steps - just two metal strips for each step) the other day and she happily trotted down beside me, without a care in the world.

 

[Selina27]

It is funny, isn't it.

When I first tried to use a target board for Ella, she did everything in her power to avoid putting her paw on the "strange platform".

On the other hand, we found ourselves at the top of a steep, high, set of open metal stairs (open between the steps and open within the steps - just two metal strips for each step) the other day and she happily trotted down beside me, without a care in the world.

Yes, the yard were my daughter keeps her horse lets out a granary flats with access steps like you describe, some dogs refuse to walk up them, while others don't bat an eyelid!

 

[Hollysdad]

This is Holly the Fearless on Biblins Bridge. It's a rope suspension bridge over the River Wye thats only allowed to take six people at a time.

 

[Boogie]

Wow!

 

[kateincornwall]

Sam would have loved that one, I wouldn't !

 

[Boogie]

My Cavalier, Callum, would never go over a bridge, any bridge. He was happy to be carried over. Luckily he was only small!

 

[Selina27]

That's the one! I must take Cassie there!