Bender and tag-along swim back to shore
I didn't know how she would go with the distance, but Bender has struggled with the walk home in the past!
I have also never had them both offleash in an unfenced area by myself before, but I now trust Barbie enough that I don't have to watch her like a hawk the whole time. I also know that she will come back 100% of the time.
Bender had a lot of fun fetching his ball, though he wasn't a fan of the dog competing with him! The little terrier (terrorist) in the video chasing Barbie was also trying to grab on to Bender when he was running, but Barbie stuck herself in between them and diverted the terrier to chasing her. She did do a few full speed laps before she realised none of the other dogs could keep up - but the terrier kept trying! She slowed down for the other dogs (and she was getting a bit worn out by this stage).
All in all it was a good day, though my shoulder is a bit sore from Bender pulling on the lead once he realised where we were walking to.
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Honey the Great Dane · 729 weeks ago
By the way, can I ask where in WA you live? Coz there is actually a chance that we might be moving to Perth eventually for Paul's work and so I'm sort of starting to research dog-friendly places there...and that place looks gorgeous! Is it an official dog park? Someone had told me that Perth only had those small, fenced dog parks like Brisbane, which really had me horrified - it's been the worst thing about moving to Australia after all the space and proper, big, non-fenced, 'real' parks we had in NZ - but if we could find somewhere like this Riverside Gardens, I'd be happy! :-)
Hsin-Yi
jetsagenda 82p · 729 weeks ago
There are only two fenced dog parks that I know of in the Perth metro area. One is Whiteman Park... I have posted a Whiteman Park video already - it is massive and full of trees and grasses and has a big horse trough in the middle. The other one is a big grassed area in Ellenbrook, and that is pretty fun for the dogs too.
Riverside Gardens is in Bayswater but there are other riverside off leash exercise areas in other suburbs (like Bassendean). The off leash dog beach we go to is called City Beach. There are a lot of under utilised sports fields in every suburb that dogs are allowed to use, but they don't have water to swim in or shade!
jetsagenda 82p · 728 weeks ago
We live in inner Perth. There are plenty of parks. There are a couple of riverside dog parks near us, one is walking distance, the other is a bit further. There are also a lot of massive, lush sporting fields which are good for my two because they like to run on green grass - you can have your dogs offleash there as long as there is no sport on.
Of course then there is City Beach which is an awesome dog beach. There are 3 dog beaches that we've been too, one that Caron refers to below is Leighton Beach, and there's one North of Perth called Trigg (Trigg is smaller and rockier than the other two).
There are two fenced dog parks near us too - Whiteman Park - which is massive and consists of sand and trees (fairly natural looking bush) and the other is up at Ellenbrook, which is another big grassed area with fences.
Dog owners in general are responsible and supervise their puppies. The few bad eggs tend to be outcast by the dog community.
Honey the Great Dane · 728 weeks ago
All those places sound wonderful - Perth sounds much more like Auckland with better attitudes for letting dogs roam free (like we could also use sports fields when there was no play - which is perfectly reasonable, I think!) - and probably not being such a big, built-up city, has more open, natural spaces. We're possibly popping over for a visit to check it out later in the year so I'll keep note of all the places you mentioned so I can keep an eye out for them! For people like us, living in a dog-friendly place really makes a difference to how happy we are! :-)
Hsin-Yi
jetsagenda 82p · 728 weeks ago
ihatetoast · 729 weeks ago
I'd add that the parks in Brisbane are full of unsupervised dogs. I've seen too many dogs be let out into the park only to have the owners get back into their cars to chat on the phone.
There was a huge off-leash park in Karana Downs (BNE near Ipswich), but I've not been since the floods. It's near Colleges Crossing, which was wiped away.
jetsagenda 82p · 729 weeks ago
Barbie loves it when the little ones chase her though. I think that is one of her favorite things!
Greyhounds CAN Sit · 729 weeks ago
I can totally sympathise with your sore shoulder as Frankie and Bender appear to have pulling on lead in common too. That's why I drive to the park even though it's only a 10 minute walk. But we do walk about 3 more kms when we get there:)
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Carrie Noar · 729 weeks ago
Any estimate on when or if the truck can be fixed? Since it wasn't your fault, is there some sort of insurance that will pay to replace it?
jetsagenda 82p · 728 weeks ago
I have decided that we will have to do with one car for a while, because the payout is not likely to be enough to buy another decent truck. We have two months before we go to Europe for 6 weeks, then I will have to save up more cash after that. So I'd say maybe 6 months until a new truck is on it's way.