We Have Started Bike Riding With Our Dogs

[Tokkie]

Ahhhh... she is beautiful!!!! I love scruffy dogs....

[Monah]

Part of doing it responsibly is teaching the dog to stay on the left and by the bike, not out in front towing you along. I also had to teach Benson he couldn't pee on every tree we'd pass, and to ignore other dogs. A few times I had to make a rapid stop when he saw something he wanted to lift his leg on, so just went and did it.

I used to bike him down a bike path, past the police station, turn around and go back.

I have started biking Dusty, although she's done it before with my husband when I was training Benson for his ET. We'd all go for big lokng bike rides and she loved it. I stopped for a while but have started training her now and she is so well behaved. She just stays right next to the bike and being a girl, doesn't need to lift her leg. She's never been one to bother with other dogs, she's ery focussed on me and it's a delight to take her out for a run.

My viz is the same, she's extremely focussed, always on the left, off lead when we are on tracks, doesn't bother with all the roos and hares around etc., When she's on the lead she stays very close and always makes sure she is on my side of any poles, letter boxes, trees etc.

I've come off badly once, heaps of stitches, I was not concentrating....

Loads of people bike their dogs here, many many bike tracks around town that are not anywhere near roads and go the whole length of town, about 15 ks or more. We are near a reserve that surrounds the airport, so can go for miles , well, could if I were fit!!!!

[nickyp]

Part of doing it responsibly is teaching the dog to stay on the left and by the bike, not out in front towing you along. I also had to teach Benson he couldn't pee on every tree we'd pass, and to ignore other dogs. A few times I had to make a rapid stop when he saw something he wanted to lift his leg on, so just went and did it.

I used to bike him down a bike path, past the police station, turn around and go back.

I have started biking Dusty, although she's done it before with my husband when I was training Benson for his ET. We'd all go for big lokng bike rides and she loved it. I stopped for a while but have started training her now and she is so well behaved. She just stays right next to the bike and being a girl, doesn't need to lift her leg. She's never been one to bother with other dogs, she's ery focussed on me and it's a delight to take her out for a run.

The problem with Em is that she gets SO excited and revved up when she knows she's going out with the bike that any concept of training disappears! She yaps and howls until the pace gets fast enough for her. I'm sure the neighbours think she's being tortured ...

I came off the bike once when she decided to stop for a poo. She stopped and I kept going over the front of the handlebars. I wasn't seriously injured, but after that I stuck to riding with Indi, who is more sedate and dependable, until she stopped suddenly on me and I came off again. I left the dog biking to the OH after that.