NOW THAT is one happy Monty! The wading pool is a great idea. One could
train a dog to stay out of the pond and play in 'their' own pond/pool.
We don't mind the goldens in the pond so we don't keep them out. They
really enjoy it during the hot summer. Rocky especially loves to lay on the
top of waterfall with the water rushing by him.
We actually have fish in the pond they just hid in the rocks when the
goldens are in the pond. The goldens don't 'play' in the pond they lay in
the pond, nother gets hurt. I think the goldfish have acutally gotten use to
the goldens.


"Steve and Lisa" wrote in message
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We too have a Golden. The old pond we had was much too small for him to be
interested in. The new one however is big enough that on a hot day and
he's
been chasing his tennis ball he....well he tried to step in. Hubby had to
actually go pick him up and lift him out as he had his front feet in on
the
shelf and when I shouted at him he froze, didn't know how to back out. I
ran
to the garage and immediately put out his kiddie pool. (So as long as the
kiddie pool is out, full of clean water....he's happy.)
http://www.britsintheus.com/marriedn...aypool.jpg.JPG


Lisa
Monty the Golden
http://www.britsintheus.com/marriednhappy/monty.htm
"GoldLexus" wrote in message
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Can't say that we have that problem with our dogs with the pond. We have
golden retrievers (who are known to chew and dig) they never have done
that
with the pond. They LOVE being in the pond and up in the Waterfall. Here
is
a link of one golden enjoying the waterfall.
http://public.fotki.com/Nikkiekoala/our_garden/
Who knows how your dog will react to it full and running the trick will
be
how to keep the dog out! Fortunately, we haven't had to try to keep our
dogs
out not sure what we would do if they were distructive in any way.
Good luck.