I just purchased a scooter, harness and tug line for my year old German Short Haired pointer bitch and because it’s the sport for dogs that love to run (and she sure does) I thought it was a great idea.
When she came into her first season and I could no longer let her run free with her friends, and I found I just couldn’t lead walk her for long enough, she was still rearing to go the rest of the day.
I came across the dog scooters one day when I was on youtube, you should go look, its brilliant. I then looked at the market for the scooters which were expensive and I could only get them delivered in bits from abroad, as I didn’t know if this was going to be the ideal thing for my dog and I, I really didn’t want to pay out a fortune.
I took a look on ebay and luckily for me there was one on there, complete with harness and tug line. Oh yes and a brilliant book by Daphne Lewis called,
‘Dog Scooter, the sport for dogs who love to run’
The book is very informative and gives lots of hints on keeping and feeding your dogs, ect.
I am only just learning to do the mushing with my dog. She tends to go off in all directions and not just straight on! So my task is to get her to line out from the scooter and keep going straight! After that the commands for left and right, the book tells you the mushing commands but they didn’t flow easily from my mouth and I kept forgetting which was which, so I stick to left and right!
If it takes the whole of the winter to get it right, that’s OK but I don’t think it will, my dog is a very fast learner. So wish me luck and look out for future posts.
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