Working Rescue Dogs Part One: Running in Harness

This video features Solo, a three-year-old rescue dog who's been involved in "working" in harness since he was around a year old (he loves it but he's not particularly fast--just fun), and Thunder, a five-year-old rescue dog who wasn't involved in working in harness until recently (he loves it and still thinks it's a glorified walk--except he can go like a rocket whan he wants to).

Solo and Thunder became friends through Thunder's dog walker, Helen Dighton. Helen owns Animals at Home East Berkshire Ltd, a Pet care busines specialising in pet transport, animal ambulance, pet care, dog walking, pet feeding, and dog boarding.

To enhance Thunder's 'dog walking' experience, Helen decided to have a go at working him in harness with Solo. We began with two dogs and two 'scooters' (kick bikes) and then decided to team them up together and see how they did.

This video shows bits of two of their first runs together and also highlights one of the numerous activitiesthat owners and adopters of Alaskan Malamutes can think about doing with their dogs--in additon to walking, running,. Cani-X, running with a bicycle, weight pulling etc, most Malamutes really enjoy the being in harness and heading off for a nice run.

Of course, it takes equipment, time, training with experienced "mushers", the appropriate place to work the dog and so on. And it's certainly not for everyone. But, if you're thinking about adopting an Alaskan Malamute, you'll also need to be sure you've got a plan in place to give this intelligent, high-energy dog the 'work' it needs to be happy and content.

If you want more information on working Alaskan Malamutes, please email info@malamuterescue.org.uk and ask for a list of resources in the UK.

If you're interested in adopting one of our wonderful AMCUK Rescue dogs, visit our website and download an application: www.malamuterescue.org.uk

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Pets & Animals

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• Alaskan Malamute
• Working Dogs
• Animals at Home
• Helen Dighton
• Swinley Forest
• AMCUK
• Malamute
• Husky racing
• Malamute adoption

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@MegoSamaLadySir

Thanks! They're pretty laid back boys to begin with--usually when they go toward other dogs it's because they're curious and want to play. The trick is to make them WORK--then they can play. They might have thought about paying attention to the other dogs but usually the musher is telling them "On by!" and generally they listen.In doubt, she would have stopped them, got off and held them until the other dogs were gone. The largest issues is off-lead dogs running at them.

[MegoSamaLadySir]

great video!

I'm really impressed with how your mals behaved! did it take allot of training for them to ignore the other dogs? or were they to busy pulling to pay attention?