The pet stores sell those "wee wee" pads for training puppies. They are
pretty large.

"Wildest Dream" wrote in message
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where doe's the dog go to the bathroom on the boat? I had mine on board
acually my wife's dog and my daughter put him in the cabin and thank god
she
put down a towel cause he went right in the middle of the floor and
tracked
it all over the towel. I prut him in the water and washed him up and threw
out the towel. Tried him one more time and he crapped on the swim
platform,
he's getting closer to where I want it , off the boat. I hated to have to
clean that up for all the world to see, than I had the smell in the
garbage,
I would have trown it in the water put too many people around and in my
boat
were swimming in the water. He now stays home. P.S. I have fish.

"Curtis CCR" wrote in message
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"Dionysus Feldman" wrote in message
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Our lab has had a tough time getting in and out of our boat. Part
of
this is due to a high dock -- or low water, depending on your
perspective. The critical thing is getting out of the water

We went swimming off the back, but she had a tough time getting on
the
swim platform afterwards. I'm sure it wasn't pleasant for her to be
pulled and pushed, and I'm thinking that, since many people hunt
with
labs from boats, there's a good way to get her on board.

There are a bunch of different things made to assist dogs getting into
boats. I haven't used any, but have looked at them. Check out
Cabalas
for
some ideas - try this link (to cabalas)

http://tinyurl.com/n5d8

If it doesn't work, just search the Cabelas site with: dog boat.

good luck with that lab Mine goes nuts if he just imagines I'm
getting
ready to go boating (you know how they look deeply into your eyes and
figure
out what you're thinking). He walks the gunwales around the
windshield
and
hangs 10 off the bow whenever he gets the chance. It's interesting
when
he
sees a beaver, but luckily is pretty obedient.

I don't think either of our dogs cared much for boating. I am sure
they only willingly went along because it beat the alternative.
However our briard really liked swimming. We put him in a PFD with
the handle on the back. He weighed about 70 lbs. so I was usually
responsible for pulling him up onto the swim platform. He would
attempt to use the ladder, and a few times managed to climb up it on
his own. I did't like him doing that - it looked too easy for him to
get hurt.