Dog ride

[Dan Bluestein]

Hi all, I haven't posted here in a while, but since there seems to be a subset of folks here who like seeing people's dog photos in addition to photos of people's bikes, and I finally got around to moving the trailer hitch to my homer, here are a few shots from this past weekend with beautiful weather here in the East Bay.

On our way up Tunnel Road bypass

All wet after I had to holler at her to get out of the water (she couldn't read the sign that said "no dogs in pond")

Mt. Diablo in the background

cheers,

Dan

[Patrick Moore]

Dan: Kudos: bike, dog, landscape. 

On the question of bikes and dogs, generally: how many RBW-listers use their bikes to run their dogs? Kind and size of dog? Route and distance? How do you attach dog to self or bike?

Me: Mutt, long and lean, ~20 lb, eager, energetic, agressive, 9 years's old mid-May; far too energetic for me to walk him, and I ain't a-gonna run. So I have a waist-belt dog leash which I use on a bike and we negotiate the annoying locks and gates to get to the nearby acequia ditchbank roads so that I can ride the mischief out of Perry for ~1.5 miles.

I've thought of getting some sort of trailer to take Perry to the "dog" park some 2-3 miles away by the ABQ/Bernalillo County library branch. Do any of all y'all use trailers? Describe kind and temperament of dog and success with trailer.

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[Robert Calton]

My wife does bikejoring when it's not snowy out, then the kicksled and skis are used. She has a whole channel over at Husky Trails about bikejoring with your dog and joring training. You don't have to have a husky to do it! 

[Patrick Moore]

Oh, and for no reason except that dogs are cute and fun: my ex wife's miniature Aussie shepherd at about 3 months old, when she persuaded me to watch her. I call her (the dog, Strudel) the "demon dog" because she has light blue eyes.

[John Rinker]

Wow, great idea for a thread: The Dogs of Riv! Not one best friend, but two! Looking forward to the photos that populate this thread. Some good ones already.

Cheers, John

[Dan Bluestein]

Patrick: It's urban and traficky where we live, so she rides in the trailer until we get a few miles up the hill to where there's more space around. Then she runs alongside, tethered to the trailer, a couple miles, until we get to where the trails are, where I lock up the trailer and she gets to run free while I ride. She stays in the trailer the whole way home downhill. She's a 41lb mutt: mostly german shepherd, pit and chow-chow, about 1.5 years old. She tolerates being in the the trailer just fine--she was gradually introduced to the trailer by giving her meals in there at first while it was on the ground, wheels off, then while slowly rolling it back and forth by hand, working up to pulling her around the back yard. But when running alongside, she used to get distracted by squirrels and try to chase them, sometimes pulling hard enough to tip the trailer on its side, the racket making her freak out and causing her to try to run more and drag the trailer, causing more racket and more freak-outs. But as she's gotten more mature that doesn't happen anymore. Our prior dog, for whom we originally got the trailer years ago, was a 75lb lab mix who would leap out the trailer's head-hole at every chance so he had to be zipped entirely inside and he'd bark the whole ride. I'm a scrawny lightweight so pulling him was never too fun and he definitely seemed like he wasn't into it so we gave up after maybe a dozen short rides. The trailer went on extended loan to a friend who used it infrequently and gave it back recently.

Robert: I've never heard of bikejoring, looks like fun, maybe I'll look into it when this pup gets a little older if she seems like she wants to pull.

On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 1:16:04 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote:

[William Watson]

Biking with our Aussie that just turned 4 on Saturday has been a journey. Until he was a bout 2.5 years old, he detested whenever he saw me on a bike, with lots of barking and herding me back to safety. After lots of patience (and treats!), he loves to run along the side now. I just hold the leash because he is quite reactive to other dogs, squirrels, cats, and geese, and that helps us avoid sticky situations. That said, mostly biking has become one of his jobs and he listens better than when I walk him.  The ride/run to the lake, around, and back, is about 4 miles with good breaks to rest and drink water. 

Late last summer, we found a slightly used Burley Tailwagon. Little by little he likes it more, especially when we go somewhere fun. My wife and I hope to try some sub 24 overnights this summer. Our longest tail wagon ride has been 12 miles so far, and we hope to build on that this spring/summer. The picture is from one of our lake rides last summer.