PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a space-saving and low-cost exercising tool for dogs capable of safely carrying out underwater walking exercise.SOLUTION: The exercising tool for dogs includes a nearly rectangular box-like tank 2 having the bottom, having a prescribed area and a sidewall 11 erected from the bottom and opening the upper face, capable of storing water having a prescribed volume and a walking surface constituted of a belt conveyer 5, arranged near the inner bottom of the tank 2 and turning by motor driving. In the exercising tool for dogs, a front protective cover body 8 and a rear protective cover body 9 are each arranged above the front end and the rear end of the belt conveyer 5, constituting a walking exercise means 7. Many holes passed through over each of the surfaces and the rears of the front protective cover body 8, the rear protective cover body 9 are bored into the front protective cover body 8, the rear protective cover body 9 and back-flow of water stream in the tank 2 is prevented, and the hands and feet and body hair of a dog which is the exercise body being caught in the belt conveyer 5 is prevented.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】安全に水中歩行運動させることができる省スペースで低コストな犬用の運動器具を提供する。【解決手段】所定面積の底部とこの底部から立ち上がる側壁11とを有し所定容積の水を溜め得る上面を開放した略矩形箱状の槽2と、該槽2の内底部付近に配設され、モータ駆動によって回動するベルトコンベア5からなる歩行面を有する犬用の運動器具において、歩行運動手段7を構成するベルトコンベア5の前端部及び後端部の上方に、それぞれ前部保護カバー体8及び後部保護カバー体9とを配設し、これら上記前部保護カバー体8と上記後部保護カバー体9とには、それぞれ表裏に亘って貫通した多数の孔が穿孔され、槽2内における水流の逆流を防止すると共に、運動主体である犬の手足や体毛がベルトコンベア5に巻き込まれることを防止する。【選択図】図1
