Dogs and Running

Running is not great for me, and walking is generally boring, so I found cycling as something that worked for me and my malinois mix. He took 0 seconds to figure out what was going on, and repetition made it simple, such as he was on my right for the first run down our dirt road, then onto pavement where he got the sidewalk and I stayed in the road, then to the first left where I'd pause and have him switch to the left of the sidewalk where the road was then on the right.

He loved it. Unfortunately some jerks with intact pitbulls moved in at the entrance to our road (we're on a dead end) and since my dog will attack any intact male dog, even though he's neutered himself, we've had to stop walks and bike runs for safety, the dogs have already come down the road once and killed 9 of my neighbors chickens.

Have to keep all of the dogs home now, 5 of them, At least until I find my pepper spray and a comfortable holster for my protection.

I run with my 2 year old German Shepherd Zöe and we both love it! We usually go about 5km but have gone as far as 8km. Its more of a jog than a run lol and its either on trails in the woods or dirt roads. I loop her leash through my running belt that holds my phone etc and it did take a lot of training, but she doesn't pull anymore. Its super cold and snowy here now, so I don't think we can run outside for a couple months, but maybe I'll take her x country skiing

I run with my Silky terrier and my Labradors.. I just started running and only recently started to take them with me but it's awesome. We're currently doing 3 km at a time.. But working our way up to 5

This is Stella - she's a terrier mystery mix. I adopted her from rescue in October, and she's is about 2 years old (best guess). She is turning into a great running buddy! (We're not actually running in the second picture - just a walk, but I didn't have any picture of our running gear set up).





@EauRouge1 I wasn't familiar with canicross but I just looked it up. Cool! I use the waist belt with bungee leash already anyway, so we are basically doing that. I'd love to teach her some more commands - but she is pretty much all about pulling hard and going fast!

genpopadopolous wrote: »

I can't figure out how to add a picture! Argh!

@genpopadopolous From a PC At the top of the Reply/Message block are a group of editing symbols
Just hover your mouse pointer over them and a drop down will appear describing the function.
You want the page with a corner turned down for attach image/file

I bring my 5 1/2 year old chocolate lab with me on every run. We do about 16 miles every week and she loves it! We started off on short runs as I was out of shape and she got used to it. One tip I have if you don't already have it is to buy a waist leash that has a bungee on it that attaches to your dogs harness. That way if there's another dog or animal around, you won't get completely yanked off step if your dog chases something.

Good luck, this is great for you and your dog!

My 5 year old blue Merle
After a thrashing