We have been taking the dogs on some road trips, getting them used to traveling in the truck. They've just always been house dogs. In the process we are having a little trouble with getting them in and out of the truck.
The seats set fairly high off the ground to where they literally have to jump straight down a few feet and this concerns me. I know from experience that one of the easiest ways to cause injury to a dog is to have them run down stairs or jump down from a high area putting stress impact on their vertebrae. As a result of an injury to my service dog during field training; she had to have two vertebrae fused together.They do sell dog ramps online and at pet stores, but they aren't cheap. So today Mike set me up with a hammer, some nails, an old area rug and a 2 x 12 board. Wallah! We now have a custom made dog ramp!
Yesterday when we came home there was a man pulling away from our property. I remembered him from the estate sale; acting very odd as he roamed through the house checking it out with no apparent interest in the items for sale. Slacks, collared shirt and short brown hair; a white collar business type. This just is par for the course of how our lives have been over the past couple of years. Oglers, and drive-byes along the front of our property and the back fence line as well. Sometimes getting out and starring with no consideration of our back yard privacy.
