You should post these in a thread under the other Obedience & Performance Sports so we can have questions and conversation about this!!!
It's mostly for if you want to do sled dog racing, having your dog help around the yard pulling a wagon or sled to put stuff on or a friend uses it to haul hay bales to her horses and other animals. It's also a licensed UKC event that you can earn titles on, which is mostly what I'd be doing.
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I can do that since I guess we don't have a thread on it.
With the cost of fuel these days?
The thing that surprised me is that the instructor said the northern breeds like Husky, Malamute, etc. have the least drive in it and the ones that do way better are the herding group, the guardian group and small breeds.
One thing she told us yesterday is not to try to pull too much at first since if you Q, the weight has to keep going up from there to get your next titles and that makes sense. When you start out the dog needs to pull 8 times its weight to Q so they have a weigh in before every event. Elroy weighs about 90# so he needs to start out at 720#. My friends IG weighs 11# so he would need to pull 88#.
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That's pretty wild - 16K pounds?! I do know that pulling something on wheels in not the same as pulling something on the ground, but still. And I figured bully breeds would be a the top because of their muscle mass. I've seen weight pulls with draft horses and it looks a lot like this.
Exactly! No title or ribbon is ever worth pushing a dog beyond what they enjoy.
Yes, here they do wheels on natural (the hardest), wheels on artificial and the snow pull on runners. The one above is a rail pull and they did recently have one a bit to our south but Elroy wasn't ready for any of them at that point.
She is extreme.The thing that surprised me is that the instructor said the northern breeds like Husky, Malamute, etc. have the least drive in it and the ones that do way better are the herding group, the guardian group and small breeds.
One thing she told us yesterday is not to try to pull too much at first since if you Q, the weight has to keep going up from there to get your next titles and that makes sense. When you start out the dog needs to pull 8 times its weight to Q so they have a weigh in before every event. Elroy weighs about 90# so he needs to start out at 720#. My friends IG weighs 11# so he would need to pull 88#.
One thing I will never, ever do is push them beyond what looks comfortable.
I saw this video and that's not going to ever happen here.
11K views · 216 reactions | 🏋️♀️❤️ “Wendy girl pulled through once again — closing out her career strong with her retirement pull of 16,884 pounds of solid weight at the amazing Bully Max venue. 💪🐾 Huge thanks to the UPF and all the competitors for
🏋️♀️❤️ “Wendy girl pulled through once again — closing out her career strong with her retirement pull of 16,884 pounds of solid weight at the amazing Bully Max venue. 💪🐾 Huge thanks to the UPF and...
I guess I'm not surprised about that. The sledding breeds are all about running, not pulling, and as a sled team they aren't doing much in the way of pulling. I don't think any of them like to work hard. But they do like running! As do dobies, and I've run my dobes with a sled, although not to the point of this Russian guy:
