Trip to the farm

[Scraggle]

We're lucky enough to have a small petting farm near us that is dog friendly.

I'd never trust him off lead around livestock - a moving animal is obviously different to one chilling out behind a fence - but it's a handy place to practice being neutral around a variety of different animals and general manners in their café/gift shop.

They have red deer, meerkats, rhea, owls as well as the more typical donkeys, sheep, goats etc and you can hand feed most of the animals so the kids like it too.

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[Flobo]

Lovely, he looks very chilled

 

[Hemlock]

What a good idea - very useful for stockbreaking.

 

[JudyN]

Kudos to the petting farm for letting dogs in - it must be so useful for getting dogs to be calm in the presence of all sorts of other animals.

 

[Scraggle]

Kudos to the petting farm for letting dogs in - it must be so useful for getting dogs to be calm in the presence of all sorts of other animals.

It is, taken Kipper a few times since we got him to try and normalise all the animals and gets him used to other kids too I guess. The animals will all still come and take food from the kids so don't seem that bothered by dogs either. Only £3 per car which includes a free hot drink and they work with kids in care and SEN individuals doing fishing and animal care things as well so we are lucky really, its an easy/cheap hour or two out of the house