quick question from a newbie making a special dog leash

Practical Knots
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Ok, I get it.

I mistakenly thought I would ask a KNOT question on the KNOT TYERS guild forum and included the application such that the respondents could understand what type of KNOTS they might advise using. My bad (as the kids say these days).

I thank you for your advice, even Derek the delusional.

Seriously Derek, do you honestly think the amount of walking you (a human, I presume), gives a greyhound (a natural athlete) can provide a dog is adequate?? Sorry my friend, you couldn’t be more wrong. If you are taking your dogs to the park for four or five hours a day and letting,no MAKING, them run you MIGHT be getting close to what my dogs need. Unfortunately where I live the dog parks are small, urine and feces infested postage stamp sized health hazards. I am not superman. Come to think of it, I have yet to find a person, superhero or not, who can RUN long enough and fast enough to provide a dog (my type of dogs) with the kind of exercise that would provide for their needs. Shame on you.

I have working dogs. I took them on an eight mile walk yesterday (actually two four mile walks…one morning, one evening). This took about three hours. Then en route was an uncharacteristic stop through the dog park where they demonstrated to me that the three hours of exercise was child’s play for them as they romped and frolicked like puppies with the other dogs.

That was, I regret to inform you, what these dogs should have done before breakfast followed by an eight or ten hour day of running after cattle or sheep.

Greyhounds are a bit different, I know. Sprint a bit and lounge the rest of they day stinking up the furniture.

I used to live in the sled dog capital of the United States. I’d run them in a harness pulling a load if I could, but I haven’t had much success with that. What I HAVE had success with is them running beside me on my bike. Never had a problem with tangles, never had a problem with them running after a squirrel, always riding in safe and controlled areas with quick release and extension bars so they could not get caught up in the bike if they tried. By the time I’d tired of riding, they are tired of running. The SYSTEM has been considered, reconsidered, analyzed, tweaked, adjusted, and otherwise engineered to near perfection. I just needed a little advice on KNOTS.

Not everyone thinks of all the potential hazards in their projects and I DO thank you all for bringing your concerns to light. I had, however, thought of them all and had done hours of research and consultation by others using such systems. I just needed some KNOT ADVICE.

What I really DIDN’T need was condescending attitude from some animal hoarding misfit who doesn’t have an inkling of who I am or how I care for my animals.

Yeah, I wanna be seen as Mr. Macho.

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I appreciate that your original question has raised a few unexpected responses. Animal care is a subject that often gives rise to strong opinions and emotions. That said, this forum expects that all members conduct themselves in a reasonable manner and try to discuss all topics in a mature and civilised fashion.

I would therefore like to ask all concerned to consider their answers carefully before posting them. Please avoid posting whilst angry - otherwise you may simply be fuelling the forum equivalent of an arms war. Go and do something more enjoyable instead. If, on your return, you still cannot respond in an equitable manner, consider avoiding the topic altogether. There are plenty of other, perhaps pleasanter, discussions ongoing at any time.

All forum moderators have the ability to close topics. This is not an ability that we wish to exercise but, if a discussion begins to descend into mud-slinging, I, for one, will not hesitate to use it.