Cheap training lines

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Boydog has bust his second lunge line/training line today (it was saturated after all the wet weather and the allure of a low-flying hen pheasant was too much for him) so looking for your recommendations.

Needs to be sturdy and cheeeaaaap because I am totally busted.

Pheasant survived unscathed, can't say the same for my voice!
 
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Then what about Ebay? You could look at lunge lines too which I guess would work just as well?
 
Bingo, thanks, was too busy looking at dog products, even though my last one was a lunge line
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at least this way I can get a funky colour too
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I have an Aerborn one, really thick cushion webbing and a fairly decent clip too. Otto managed to break all the others but this one has lasted, although he chews through them so you can't really blame the lead!
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Ta - I'll check that out too - mine would be fine if it wasn't so bloody wet all the time, plus he drags them through the river.

We've done a couple of trigger-clips but only on 'normal' leads.
Shall we start a sled-dog team?
Bless him, in fairness he walked to heel nearly all the way home.
 
You'd get dragged through all sorts if you attached Otto to a sled
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I am so thankful he is off the lead now, walking him is a pleasure instead of a chore!! He is such a good boy now, doesn't go on his lead at all, never thought I'd see the day!
 
Me neither, apart from that one incident he was a gem today, I think he stayed super-close to me the whole way home because he knew I was fuming with him. I blame the pheasant, personally
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Washing lines are great . You used to be able to get non slippy ones from Woolies but not sure where to look now . BT engineers ( I think it was them) used to use blue rope ( just thicker than a washing line) to pull wires through pipes and such and I've used a lot of that over the years . So ask a BT person if you see one , never hurts to ask!
 
I tempted fate by posting this yesterday, clearly
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Otto has to go out in the garden attached to his lunge line as he started jumping out when he was on restricted exercise, far too many ways for him to get in trouble around here!!

This morning OH let him out and came back to find he had snapped the lunge line
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Luckily now he is back up to proper runs he doesn't seem as keen to jump out, so he was just mooching around
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Oops!

Thank crunchie I had Bodo on the Lupi harness today - after yesterday's pheasant adventure, today he put up a hare. Silly bugger nearly asphyxiated himself.

Does anyone want to call Kate Humble? It's like Springwatch up here at the mo....
 
Sorry HH, had to laugh at your wildlife problems! Evie and I were doing our sedate stroll round the garden last night and a rabbit shot across in front of her, cue Evie and I going at mach 1 across the garden and both ending up in the hedge
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So much for restricted exercise, luckily she still seems sound.
 
I do wear gloves!
They are both synthetic.

He snapped the first one in the middle, I tied it together and am using it again now in the meantime, the second one at the buckle a few weeks ago (cat!), I tied it back together and then yesterday it snapped twice in the middle section (pheasant and interesting smelly tussock).

As I said, it was has been very wet here for weeks and he always drags it through the river and the wet grass so it is as much a case of that as his strength.

MM I hate it when they do that, their sense just goes out the window, doesn't it? Hope you won the fight, not the hedge
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I've never seen so much wildlife about - I think it may have to do with the tree-felling, a lot of animals seem to have been displaced, you see them in the oddest places at the oddest times of day.
It would be nice to sit and watch, if my dog wasn't intent on genocide....
 
Oh good, you've confirmed it, it definitely wasn't our PERFECTLY behaved dogs then, it was faulty equipment
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Jeepers, if they can't cope with a hyperactive dog, what happens when a horse decides to 'do one'?!
 
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I really like reins and lunge lines made of that kind of material! Never lquite ost a horse yet using them (it's been close mind you), your dogs must both be super-dogs...
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