Notice the evil look on my hound after she chewed up my 3rd wooden track gauge (photo taken last year). I always try and keep it out of reach but she’s sneaky and the second I leave it laying near the tracks, she’ll grab it, run like crazy and chew it up.
So, I epoxied this dual-gauge track gauge together. Now I just hope I don’t misplace it like I do my other tools.
My golden retriver has gotten into my railroad a couple of times, those poor Life-like construction workers never saw it comeing. Another time she raided the logging camp!
My daughter’s cat ate, or stole all my little peoples, so I don’t have any left.[:(] Worse though was when her darned dog got loose and proceeded to destroy the entire village chasing the stupid cat. Looked rather like the aftermath of a hurricane. I have about 10 or so building that will still have to be totally rebuilt before they can be used again.
I’ve pretty much decided that if I’m still going to have a “garden” railroad (in my 2nd floor apt), I’m going to have to build it on the dining room table with potted plants – so much for the 10 foot rule, gonna have to make things rather more presentable for closer viewing, I guess. Probably time to actually start regularly following the indoor forums, too.
BTW, Nice dog, I always liked having fleagles, err beagles, but the daughter now has an Aussie Shepherd., and I’m not allowed pets in the new place…
I’ve heard that railroad raiding critters particularly like the little people.
Funny, my dog ignored my layout completely, only thing he did was to knock over a building when he was was trying to get from over here to over there!
My dear old Ozzie cattle dog Jessie decided that the GR was her personal ablution spot. Imagine the look of horror on engineer Woodie’s face when he rounded the Whibley bridge curve in old #9 to be faced with a 12" to the foot dog-turd layed neatly across the tracks! Poor fellla was in therapy for months
Gentlemen,
This talk about dogs and pets in general to do with garden railways is a good thing and thats what this type of model railway stuff is all about. The home, the family and the additions thereto, such as dogs, cats etc…
These people who run HO and stuff like that with only blokes involved; are in my opinion a sad lot and they don’t know what they are missing out on!
Regards ian
In this instance, I would have introduced Mr. Dog to Mrs. Steel-toed boot.
In my case, we have a house full of Papillons, that’s “French” for butterfly. Papillon translates to a five pound barking ball of black and white fur. About the only interest in the GRR that they have shown is to take a nap inside the tunnel, and to bark at the Koi. A byproduct hazard is when planting a new tree, I must place a temporary fence around it as when they run past their fur will get snagged in the branches and they run with fear when something grabs hold of their fur.
Might I suggest grabbing a solution that doesn’t taste good to the dog? The same thing that parents put on childrens nails to keep them from biting might be a good idea. Just, don’t kill your dog, it’s cute.
One person tried using peppers to discourage his dog, but the thing was the dog liked the peppers!
my dog has never done anything really bad to my layout he just sometimes poops near the tracks one time he pooped right on a switch not cool thank god hes a small dog 