road block needed
I must remember to get safety barricades........Jack came running down the hall and attempted a quick right hand turn to blow out the front door, but without a rug to catch him.......well 
I heard scratching, a thump and turned just in time to watch a giant sheepdog with 4 feet in the air slide past the door and into the diningroom coming to rest against the table. I assume he was OK because he managed to gain his feet and this time gingerly blow out the front door. I admire those of you who can have large expanses of tile or other hard surfaces. How do they learn to slow down?? s. |
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They dont  and with wood floors, you can see the gouge marks from trying! |
| LOL! Do they wave as they sail past???
Jack is just a big long legged lug with questionable joints anyway, I just don't want him to hurt himself. The other dogs don't seem to have the same trouble. Glacier is so low slung, you couldn't tip her over with a bulldozer. |
Well, I tried that paw wax and it didnt seem to help much...only rugs with plastic backing work and I dont like them because they have the potential to change the color of wood under them...so we just constantly have to say "SLOW DOWN!" Not that works either 
We have a tight hallway that leads from the family room to the living room...she makes the tight turn, scratches the floor and slams her rear on the wall....almost everytime....I almost think that she thinks she is a race car trying not to spin out! |
| Yep... Pip just hauls around the living room and hallway chasing kitty girls... or hubby (Wish they wouldn't do that). I really haven't been able to stop him, so I just kinda watch as he rushes past me. He's only really taken one bad spill that I know of, most of the time he can stop himself if he needs to... But we have very old, bumpy antique wood floors, so that might help.
What kills me is when he's just been bathed, and he is still wet and trying to chase the kitties... then we really have to look out! Watch out, here comes Slip and Slide Boo! |
| ...banking on the turns, LOL. Don't hang anything on that wall!
I hate latex backed rugs but am using them as they stay in place. I can't be bothered with the antislip pad alternative. Since I have tile, I don't worry about the discoloring as I would on the diningroom wood floor. |
| Slip n Slide........forgot about those!! They still around?? |
| They are!! I loved those as a kid....we didnt have a pool....so slip n slide and the sprinklers were our backyard favorites....any one remember the ''slim slam''...the tennis ball attached to a rope on a metal pole...?? |
| Wasn't there one called the "water wiggle" that had a head with a dome inverted over it and the nozzle was kind of hook shaped in order to balst the water downward and make the hose stand up?
I seem to remember it poking kid's eyes out or something. But other than that it was great fun!  |
Darcy wrote: They are!! I loved those as a kid....we didnt have a pool....so slip n slide and the sprinklers were our backyard favorites....any one remember the ''slim slam''...the tennis ball attached to a rope on a metal pole...??
Do you mean tether ball? I thought my Dad was the bomb when he actually cemented one into the ground on the side of the house  |
| It's scary how I remember this stuff.... from 1978!
Unfortunately it wasn't just an eye, 2 kids drowned from it.  Quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml78/78020.htmlApril 13, 1978 Release # 78-020 Recall Of Wham-O Water Wiggle Toy WASHINGTON, D.C. (Apr. 13) -- Wham-O Manufacturing Co., San Gabriel, Calif., in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, today announced it is voluntarily stopping sale and recalling its "Water Wiggle" toy. Approximately 2 1/2 million of these toys have been sold throughout the United States over the past 17 years. The toy consists of a seven-foot plastic hose attached to an aluminum water-jet nozzle which is covered by a bell-shaped plastic head. The toy is designed to be attached to a garden hose for water fun. It retails for approximately $3.50. Wham-O stated that the recall is occasioned by the death of a four-year-old child in March 1978. The youngster was playing with some other children in his backyard with a dismantled "Water Wiggle," one from which the bell-shaped head had been removed or had come off. The exposed aluminum nozzle became lodged in his mouth and he drowned. Wham-O stated that it had no knowledge of how or why the toy was dismantled or how the nozzle became lodged in the child's mouth. A "Water Wiggle" was involved in a similar death of a three-year-old boy in 1975. Parents are advised not to allow their children to play with this product. Wham-O requests its retailers to remove all "Water Wiggles" from their shelves. Consumers who own a "Water Wiggle" toy should return the product to the retail store where purchased for a full refund or credit toward another product. Consumers requiring information concerning this recall should contact the Customer Service Department, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, 835 East El Monte Street, San Gabriel, California 91778 (toll free numbers 800/423-4592 and 800/423-4593) or call the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission toll-free hotline 800/638-2772. |
| I wanted a Slip N Slide in the worst way when I was a kid. The engineer in Dad figured he could make one so the took a sheet of plastic and held it down with those small, round plastic sprinklers. (Do you remember those Ron? These had yellow tops)
It was loads of fun till I slid into one of the sprinklers, it broke, and I tore a nice channel on the front of my calf from the knee down to the ankle. We were going to Cedar Point the next day so I walked around with bandages the whole day. I still have the scar! And I'd do it again, LOL. |
| Ouch!
No I don't recall the yellow headed sprinklers, but they sound deliciously painful! |
| Blue and Belle both slide around our hardwood floors. It's usually quite comical. My favorite is when they've been asleep then something catches their attention and they jump up and try to take off running, but they're just spinning their wheels. I tried a few rugs, but even with the "non-skid" pads under them, they'd just end up in a pile against the wall -- the rugs and the dogs. |
| OUCH!!!
OK, tether ball, sure, I was a killer with that! Unfortunately I was tall and strong by 5th grade and could whomp all girls and most boys. I retired graciously. Yes, now that I've read the report, I remember the wiggle though by then I was way beyond childhood. I had another slap in the face the other day watching Discovery Channel. The story was about bicycling and how it only exercised the legs and not the stomach. So some guy was touting his NEW bicycle that works by pulling the handle back and forth in a modified rowing motion. Oh poop, we had that when we were kids calling it the Irish Male or Mail...I never knew which was correct. Finally, as for rugs, I have to stay with the bigger ones or else they too would end up under the table with the dogs. That's not to say they don't get moved around each day. Now, where's my coffee............. |
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