[Sca-cooks] Pulling Dogs

[Sharron Albert]

>Point made and taken.  Use draft animals responsibly.
>
>niccolo difrancesco

And I might add in here, being from Alaska, that it's mighty tiring 
hearing people complain about how we abuse our sled dogs in the great 
races (Iditarod and Yukon Quest). Those dogs have pulling in their 
genes and if they didn't want to be there, they'd just be dead 
weight. Anyone who's watched a team getting hitched up can see how 
excited the dogs are to be in harness.

I had an Old English Sheepdog once, and as we didn't have sheep, she 
herded the cats. It annoyed the hell of them: they'd walking 
peacefully from one doorway to the other and end up herded, spitting 
and hissing, into a 'safe' corner. She would even pull a small sled 
with the two-year-old to the grocery store.

So if your dog doesn't seem to 'take' to pulling, it's probably 
missing the right instincts (G).

Morgana
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