Patrick: It's urban and traficky where we live, so she rides in the trailer until we get a few miles up the hill to where there's more space around. Then she runs alongside, tethered to the trailer, a couple miles, until we get to where the trails are, where I lock up the trailer and she gets to run free while I ride. She stays in the trailer the whole way home downhill. She's a 41lb mutt: mostly german shepherd, pit and chow-chow, about 1.5 years old. She tolerates being in the the trailer just fine--she was gradually introduced to the trailer by giving her meals in there at first while it was on the ground, wheels off, then while slowly rolling it back and forth by hand, working up to pulling her around the back yard. But when running alongside, she used to get distracted by squirrels and try to chase them, sometimes pulling hard enough to tip the trailer on its side, the racket making her freak out and causing her to try to run more and drag the trailer, causing more racket and more freak-outs. But as she's gotten more mature that doesn't happen anymore. Our prior dog, for whom we originally got the trailer years ago, was a 75lb lab mix who would leap out the trailer's head-hole at every chance so he had to be zipped entirely inside and he'd bark the whole ride. I'm a scrawny lightweight so pulling him was never too fun and he definitely seemed like he wasn't into it so we gave up after maybe a dozen short rides. The trailer went on extended loan to a friend who used it infrequently and gave it back recently.
Robert: I've never heard of bikejoring, looks like fun, maybe I'll look into it when this pup gets a little older if she seems like she wants to pull. On Monday, April 29, 2024 at 1:16:04 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > Oh, and for no reason except that dogs are cute and fun: my ex wife's > miniature Aussie shepherd at about 3 months old, when she persuaded me to > watch her. I call her (the dog, Strudel) the "demon dog" because she has > light blue eyes. > > [image: image.png] > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 1:45 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dan: Kudos: bike, dog, landscape. >> >> On the question of bikes and dogs, generally: how many RBW-listers use >> their bikes to run their dogs? Kind and size of dog? Route and distance? >> How do you attach dog to self or bike? >> >> Me: Mutt, long and lean, ~20 lb, eager, energetic, agressive, 9 years's >> old mid-May; far too energetic for me to walk him, and I ain't a-gonna run. >> So I have a waist-belt dog leash which I use on a bike and we negotiate the >> annoying locks and gates to get to the nearby acequia ditchbank roads so >> that I can ride the mischief out of Perry for ~1.5 miles. >> >> I've thought of getting some sort of trailer to take Perry to the "dog" >> park some 2-3 miles away by the ABQ/Bernalillo County library branch. Do >> any of all y'all use trailers? Describe kind and temperament of dog and >> success with trailer. >> >> [image: image.png] >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 1:25 PM Dan Bluestein <dblue...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, I haven't posted here in a while, but since there seems to be a >>> subset of folks here who like seeing people's dog photos in addition to >>> photos of people's bikes, and I finally got around to moving the trailer >>> hitch to my homer, here are a few shots from this past weekend with >>> beautiful weather here in the East Bay. >>> >>> [image: IMG_1162.jpg] >>> >>> >>> On our way up Tunnel Road bypass >>> [image: IMG_1158.jpg] >>> >>> All wet after I had to holler at her to get out of the water (she >>> couldn't read the sign that said "no dogs in pond") >>> [image: IMG_1160.jpg] >>> >>> Mt. Diablo in the background >>> [image: IMG_1159.jpg] >>> >>> cheers, >>> Dan >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1ddabd6c-493f-4e44-93e7-57eb39af95ccn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1ddabd6c-493f-4e44-93e7-57eb39af95ccn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing >> services >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* >> >> *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* >> >> *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* >> > > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f666e55b-cba7-4452-af62-a846d59c7577n%40googlegroups.com.
