[Sca-cooks] Service Animal
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Aug 12 13:39:45 PDT 2009
<<< Every for real princess should have a pony. /me pooches out lower
OK, what about a dog cart then? We can document that. >>>
Dog-Carts-art (24K) 11/15/06 "Dog Carts and Draft Dog Training:
Directions to Convert a
Hand Wagon into a "Period" Dog
Lady Rachael of Bhakail.
This is a revised article from the one I based mine on. Although since
my dog (Miniature American Eskimo) is only 16 pounds, compared to Lady
Rachael's bigger dogs, the wagon was a bit smaller. I do have photos
if anyone wants to see Snowball pulling his wagon. :-)
He does haul water around for the water bearers and hauls our stuff
around various sites. But that doesn't apparently qualify him as a
I would love to have him at Gulf Wars but he isn't a period breed.
There is a possible exception to the 'no dogs' rules based on being
used in a class, such as one on dog carts and making them, but I
haven't decided to do that. It would mean staying over in the 'Kennel
The article above has some dog cart history but is more of a 'how-to'
than a history. If someone would like to write a more comprehensive
article on dog carts in our period I'd love to have it.
Earlier in this thread we were talking about handicap transport. There
are folks that build lightweight dog carts using bicycle wheels and
metal framing and actually it in the cart have themselves pulled by
one or two harnessed dogs. Not very period looking, but neither is a
scooter or golf cart.
THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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