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Posted : 3/15/2006 6:36:25 PM

I got mine at Walmart, I think. It's made to be a keychain, but... it works perfectly well. Mic used the proper word earlier. Carabiner.

Anyhow... My dad tied the rope in a really good knot. I have no idea how to tie knots. Any boy scout can do a good job

jensw

Posted : 3/15/2006 8:53:54 PM

I would think a carabiner would be too heavy for Zoe. I use the same kind of claspy-thing that's on a regular 6-foot leash; but I have no idea what it's really called because a google-search has not let me find a single picture of one! lol Anyway, they have a whole section of sizes and colors at our Home Depot, and it's right next to the rope. Our feed stores have a selection, too, also right next to the rope.

As for tying, I pull the rope through the hole of the clasp. Then I just tie a regular knot in the folded over section. I've never had it come apart that way. To make a handle I do the same thing only with a longer length of rope and no clasp.

This is a carabiner. The ones I see are pretty heavy. Edited to add: Yay I found it! It's called a "bolt snap"

griffinej5

Posted : 3/15/2006 8:57:21 PM

I had a really hard time getting the knots right at first to make my leashes. You can just tie a regular knot I guess, and I suppose you would do that if you were making more knots along the length of the leash. The first few times I tried it, I kept making a slip knot. At the clasp end that's not really a problem, as it will tighten as it gets pulled. Obviously that doesn't work so well at the handle end, but I used a rope clamp for that.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 3/15/2006 9:00:11 PM

Mine is light (my dogs are close to Zoe's size). It was cheapy, but it holds up, b/c there's no pressure on the closure. The rope pulls on one end and the harness on the other, but nothing ever pulls on the opening part. I got it at Wal Mart or a dollar store or something. It was in a little bin. Like at Petsmart, how they have the bone shaped ones? Really light and cheap.

jensw

Posted : 3/15/2006 9:01:20 PM

Huh, I guess I've never noticed.

The ones I see are for rock climbing. They're pretty heavy. [

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jennie_c_d

Posted : 3/15/2006 9:03:30 PM

I have several of them. One on each gate, and one on Emma's crate, and this one for the long line.

smilee1079

Posted : 3/15/2006 9:11:17 PM

I'd agree a rock climbing caribiner is too heavy, and more expensive. I climb, so I have one. A regular 99 cent one could work unless it were to get caught on something.

I guess I will mention this to my bf and tell him next time he is at home depot to look for a good rope and the latch for the end.

huskymom

Posted : 3/15/2006 9:53:02 PM

If you use that yellow floating rope, you can use a lighter to singe the knot so it wont come undone. It melts it together. For a softer rope you could run a needle and thread through it a few times. You can get smaller carabiner clips, but I just took the boltsnaps off my old leashes that had gotten too frayed to use anymore.

jensw

Posted : 3/16/2006 1:21:50 AM

Oddly enough, I went to Toys R Us today (which I never do, but I had to buy a present) and there was a whole revolving tree of different-sized carabiners in various colors. I wonder if I would have even noticed that display were it not for this conversation. [

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jeano

Posted : 3/16/2006 2:20:58 AM

Okay, both the bolt snap and the carabiner are a no-go for Sofia and Athena. They easily undo them. The only thing I've found that she doesn't undo on a crate (Athena--Sofia doesn't use a crate, I don't know where the heckola I'd put it, no room in here) is a thing that is shaped like a carabiner, but instead of the push-snap, it has a screw thing that connects the place where the snap is on a carabiner. There's a word for these, but I forget what it is.

I think I'd be a horrible hardware person. I look at everything in the hardware department and they are all thingers, thingies and dealie-bobbers.

smilee1079

Posted : 3/16/2006 2:23:58 PM

The one you are referring to is a caribiner... one used for rock climbing and lead climbing, etc. It is much heavier but also much stonger... heck, it has held me in well!

Long lines?