Helping Hand

[paddywak]

Hi everybody, just taking a beer break from totally re-designing my back garden assisted by my trusty side kick Max. I'm amazed at how fast he's learnt the first principles of gardening i.e as soon as I put a tool down it has to be taken to the furthest part of the garden from where I need it and any rubbish or weeds left in the barrow or plastic bag must be immediatly returned to me. If he didn't look so pleased with himself I think I'd strangle him

[Lakitu]

Awww cute!

He's just doing what you do to him.....throwing the stick/ball and getting him to run all the way over to it just to run all the way back and hand it back to you ;)

[paddywak]

Now you mention it lakitu, he did have a how do like tha look in his eye.

[ruthann58]

dont you just love their help ,when im weeding cassie always has to have her head in the way just in case a frog might be hiding in where i am pulling things out also she loves to pinch a plastic pot out of the green house and dash round the garden with it they pull it into as many bits as she can before i realise shes got one

[leelapops]

Oh paddywak, dog help is the best kind of help! They are always so considerate and forward-thinking. Does Max get the point of gardening?

Fortunately we only have a yard, but Jack likes to contribute to that by throwing his ball at the potted plants and fighting with the hose!

[paddywak]

leelapops I dont know if he sees' the point of it all, I do know that he is the only one in the family who will always "help" in the garden no matter what I'm doing. As far as the rest are concerned Sun + Garden = BBQ, Sun loungers, Beer & Wine. However like cassie he is easily diverted by a plant pots, toads & frogs and if I dont keep a close watch he likes to visit the fish to see what they up to.

[LoftyLottie]

My dog helps by placing her ball right in front of me and barking continously until I throw it. And if I dig a small hole, she puts the ball in it. This can continue endlessly, she just never gets tired. Sometimes she gets bored with that and rolls her ball under the garden gate and barks again continously until I go and fetch it. Great fun"!

[woofgang]

my dogs are pruning everything in sight at the moment and bringing it into the living room for storage/inspection

[paddywak]

Che my previous GSD loved to prune things too, especially Daffodils, for some reason he couldn't stand to see them and would nip all the flowers off,about 1" below the head My mother thought it was lovely the first time he brought her a one untill she realised he'd cleared her front flower bed. After we realised what he was doing he had to be kept on a lead if we were anywhere near daffs. he never bothered with other flowers but he would run 100yds to get a daff