Bikejoring Equipment, Training, and Getting Started: Biking with Your Dog

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This video is about how to get started in bikejoring, urban mushing or biking with your dog. It’s a great way to exercise together and burn energy!

Pro Tip: If your dog is struggling to understand the concept of running out front, have them follow another bikejoring team, or even a friend on a bike out front!

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Hi guys this is Laura from da GU and today we’re gonna be talking about bike drawing I’m here down in Colchester Connecticut at the airline trail and we’re gonna talk about getting started and bike drawing and the simple equipment that I’m using to have fun and

Exercise my dog with a bike so let’s check it out So let’s start with a little bit of the equipment that I’m using for bike drawing first you need a bike might happens to be about 15 years old that I just got a tune-up on it I found in my parent’s garage got a tune-up ready to

Go and then you also need your towline or your line that’s gonna come out from your bike and attached to your dog and I also use a contraption called a walkie dog that I’ve kind of repurposed I’ll put a link to the in the description below a walkie dog is generally used for

Your dog to bike next to you or on your side but I’ve repurposed it as a way to keep that line out of the front of my tire like so out of the bike tire path so that it doesn’t get tangled up so I’m

Going to show you how I use that as well and I just need those three things the bike something like a noodle or a walkie dog to keep the line off of the bike tire and then just your line that goes out to your dog oh and of course a

Harness so you need an appropriate harness for hugging I’m using a howling dog Alaska but they make lots of different types of harnesses for this kind of sport and it’s just so much fun to prepare for bike drawing I need to find a path that’s relatively flat it

Can have some hills but your dog is going to do better on a mostly flat surface especially when they’re starting out and the terrain or the surface of that path needs to be something like dirt or grass that’s not going to hurt your dog’s joints or tear up their paws

I wouldn’t do this on pavement where you’re gonna get a lot of friction on their paws as well as wear down their joint so you want to try to find something that’s dirt or grass and relatively level before I go out bike touring I put mushers wax on my dog’s

Pads so I want to preserve her pads toughen them up but I want to keep them safe as well so the mushers wax tends to help them stay intact and not rip open that kind of thing so it’s very helpful for that I’ll put a link to that down below as well

So I put the mushers backs on and then I hook her up and we’re ready to go jewelry enjoying your dog is going to be out front of your bike or your scooter depending on what you’re using and they’re going to be pulling out front

You want your line to be tight and you want to build them up to longer courses they can run really really fast but it might only start with them being able to go a short distance so you want to really build them up just like if you

Were training for a race if you’re looking to teach commands to I start them on the ground while they’re walking teaching them left and right where you can call them joon-ha depending on the terminology you want to use your dog doesn’t really care as long as it’s something you’re gonna remember

And then once you’ve trained a halt a gr or left and a right on the ground and a very strong stop or an easy you’re ready to go ahead and start on the bike when you’re on the bike it’s easy to help them make the right decision because if

You need to go left you’re gonna start turning your bike left and they’re typically going to take that cue and go to the left same thing with an easier a halt if you pump your brakes they’re probably going to slow down when you ask them to easy and if you stop they’re

Going to stop because they are attached to the bike so you want to make sure you have really good brakes on your bike or your scooter also before you start out you want to make sure that you walk your dog out and just don’t start them on a

Cold run from the bike I know my dog gets really excited when we go out biking so I need to make sure that I walk her and warm her up for a few minutes before we get started another important cue to teach is a leave it or an on by which means ignore

The things around you and continue to go straight but you’ll find that a lot of dogs that you would generally call you know maybe a distractible or like to sniff once they’re working or you know out front of your bike they ignore everything and they just love doing

Their job and they love running so I’m just going to show you a little clip right here of us working out on the trail so you can see what it looks like live [Applause] My drawing is my new favorite activity to do with my dog so if you loved this video maybe you should check it out you can also instead of having your dog pull out front use something like a walkie dog to have them bike next to you

If you want to start in what you feel is a more safe environment or you can start with a scooter instead of a bike where it’s much easier to bail but if you think this looks like fun go ahead and try it with your dog make sure

You’re safe warm them up put my shoes acts on your paws and and start slow and you’re ready to go you guys have a great day and happy training