Different ways to condition a dog

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Nevermind, I believe.

 

I hope your joking. Or else, you make me sick. (btw, yes I've read all your posts)

 

good fer you! ive read yours to.And im sorry i make you sick but hey!,Im not married nor do i live with you.So what i do here on my property,Is my buisness.And i know my dogs are happy and love to run along the side of my truck.

 

And thats true up until you kill one of them through your depraved indifference.


By the way. I condition my dog by leash walking, games of fetch, tug-of-war and flirt pole.

 

well in the last 20 years the only dogs ive killed were culled for reasons,not due to depraved indifferences.

 

as for me i hand walk,spring pole, rope toy, bout to to add flirt poling and maybe a drag sled. and a mill when i get one. and my dog work the chain pretty good. never drag you dog behind a trunk. may be tie your dog to the front bumper and let them pull the car/trunk or other form of a vechile in neutral

 

Okay, I haven't actually done this yet, I am in the process of building the cart. But, I intend to have my dogs pull a sulky. It is like what they use in thoroughbred racing (trotters) but made sized for dogs. You can use a single or a double for 2 dogs. They can easily pull up to 2.5 times their body weight with no effort. Or you can use a scooter. I like the sulky because you use a head harness and have reins, thus more control. I work at a manufacturing plant and have a guy working on the buggy design for me all I have to do is order the harness. I plan to go to the Geneva Ga show and hope to have something to show off then.

 

if directed to me why did you say never mind?

 

Many methods are in use over here, but the newest is probably his current favorite- Tire Wrasslin

He drags that damn thing all over the yard. gorwling and shaking it. I will stand it on end and roll it across the yard as he runs it down and tackles it.
LOL, He found that thing in the garage this morning while I was cleaning kennels and decided it was a good chew toy. I dont have the heart to take it from him.

Is it me or doesnt it look like he is smiling in this one?

And here are some shots of him and his new toy






Maybe this one will last some time, because those king toys... are questionable in this house, LOL.

And the old stand by-

 

Lets see,

Flirt pole, Sping pole, Tredmill, walking, jogging, bike, swimming(works all muscles in the body), fetch, and pulling. If I missed one that I normally do, than i can get back to that later. I am a personal favorite of swimming.

 

I wish my dog liked to swim. He'll go in the water to the top of his back, but no further. I'm sure if I tossed him in he'd figure it out pretty quick.

 

Lots of walking, running (sprinting and endurance), swimming, springpole, tugging.

 

his feet should always be on the ground when working the s/p

 

well not if he's teaching him to climb a tree!!!

 

His feet shouldnt always be on the ground. I have been using springpole to condition my dogs for years and have always used the same combination og high and low days, and always with great results in a dogs drive to continue with the pole and body from the workout it provides. I agree the most work is done with all four feet on the ground and the dog pulling against the tension in the spring, but the act of having to jump repeatedly is great at building a solid rear. As you can see in this pic the rope is going up and over another branch, this is just for a really high jump. I will run it directly from that brnach to the ground for a middle height, or move it to the lower branch so that he has all four on the ground. (thats also the height its at for the puppies and my female who wont jump up).



It is possible for a dog to fall and hurt its tail or hind legs, sure it is.
I use my spring pole pretty much every day for about 45 minutes to an hour and have NEVER had a single incident in over 5 years. I am pretty comfortable with the safety of my dogs, but I do appreciate your concern.

Look at this vertical leap from a stand still-

 

How do you keep your dog intrested for 45 min to an hour? I can only keep mine on for a couple of minutes. any tips would help.

 

To be honest... I dont. He does. None of my other dogs come close to him. He sees the tug and wants it, everything else in the world disappears when he is under that ropes spell. I literally have to put it up out of reach for him to leave it alone and still he will go to the tree and jump a few times at nothing. then sit and look at me then the tree, and then back at me, kind of like "make it come back... I wasnt done with it yet."

But then again Diesel has always beena dog that put everything into whatever activity he was doing. Be it Springpole, FLirtpole, running, fetch, his tire or whatever, he is completley immersed in that activity until you come and physically make him stop by removing the item.

 

Sam, IMO this is more a question of drive than anything else. Some dogs you can throw a ball and they look at you like "yeah, so what"? Other dogs you throw a ball and they will go through a patch of thorn bushes to get the ball. Thats just genetics. There are things you can do to increase drive a little bit but thats it.

 

nice looking dog, good to see some blues active