Hints / tips for cycling with your dog

[Little yellow Brompton]

don't bame the dog blame the twat!

I do, but dog owners don't like it.

 

[Lee_M]

I do wonder where you all ride though.

I'm 51 have been riding since I was 8 and never been attacked chased or knocked off my bike by a dog.

Maybe that's because I accept that even with a 'perfect' dog unexpected things can happen, so I slow down.

If you can't avoid the dog, you're going too fast - what if it was a young child and not a dog?

(cue the abuse)

 

[Robson3022]

Id argue my dog is under control when I have him out on the bike. Certainly more than most of the idiots I encounter who are walking. If your sensible its possibly one of the best forms of exercise for your dog how else can you keep up and keep going at a pace to fulfill your dogs exercising needs.

 

[coffeejo]

Well my dog is now fast asleep but in a very happy way after her first ride out with the bike this year. She's a plodder not a racer (bit like her owner, really) so it's too cold in winter to go at her pace and I walk instead. 4 miles into the village and back, most of it on the roads so her lead's clipped to the bike-seatpost-attachment-lead-thingy and she happily trots behind the bike, tail held high.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Id argue my dog is under control when I have him out on the bike. Certainly more than most of the idiots I encounter who are walking. If your sensible its possibly one of the best forms of exercise for your dog how else can you keep up and keep going at a pace to fulfill your dogs exercising needs.

Of course you would, every single dog owner ( inclduing the owner of the dog I had to shoot) argues that their little darling is under control.

As for your question.Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you shoudn't have bought the animal in the first place. If you have a breed that was meant to be a working dog, ( spaniels, retriever, collies etc...) it will need maybe 12- 16 miles a day that's say 8 or 9 hourse of walking, what you ( and everyone that buys ball slingers) is trying to reduce the time that YOU have to excercise your dog.

 

[Lee_M]

Of course you would, every single dog owner ( inclduing the owner of the dog I had to shoot) argues that their little darling is under control.

sounds to me like you just have a problem with dogs and dog owners, not the other way around

As for your question.Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you shoudn't have bought the animal in the first place.

that arguement could also be used by pedestrians for banning cylcing in the first place, and it would be just as specious
why should dog exercise be done to fit your narrow intepretation of what is correct ?

what you ( and everyone that buys ball slingers) is trying to reduce the time that YOU have to excercise your dog.

rubbish,. most people buy them because dogs love them

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

sounds to me like you just have a problem with dogs and dog owners, not the other way around



that arguement could also be used by pedestrians for banning cylcing in the first place, and it would be just as specious
why should dog exercise be done to fit your narrow intepretation of what is correct ?




rubbish,. most people buy them because dogs love them

I have a " problem" with owners of dogs where the dog is not under control, that's at least 80% of the dogs I encounter.
Somone asked how they excerise their dog without cycling. I gave an answer I don't see how that answer is relevant pedestrians wanting to ban cyclists?

 

[Lee_M]

I have a " problem" with owners of dogs where the dog is not under control, that's at least 80% of the dogs I encounter.

where the hell do you live?

as I said previously it seems to me it's you with the problem, not the dogs and dog owners, if I came up to you with my dog walking to heel you'd probably shoot it

Somone asked how they excerise their dog without cycling. I gave an answer I don't see how that answer is relevant pedestrians wanting to ban cyclists?

Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you shoudn't have bought the animal in the first place.

or

Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you should have set off earlier - no need for that horrible dangerous bicycle

 

[Kins]

Of course you would, every single dog owner ( inclduing the owner of the dog I had to shoot) argues that their little darling is under control.

As for your question.Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you shoudn't have bought the animal in the first place. If you have a breed that was meant to be a working dog, ( spaniels, retriever, collies etc...) it will need maybe 12- 16 miles a day that's say 8 or 9 hourse of walking, what you ( and everyone that buys ball slingers) is trying to reduce the time that YOU have to excercise your dog.

12-16 miles - 8 or 9 hours? you need to walk more yourself sounds like. You don't have to walk much more than 10 miles for them to do 20 miles in all seriousness. Mine prefer swimming to walking and will often do an hour in the river larking about. I have fitted pedometers to both dogs in the past just to see how far they travel and usually between 1.5 and 2 times my walking distance.

Your comments are obviously ill informed and you have an axe to grind for some reason, I have always owned working dog breeds and they make very obedient, quality companions.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

12-16 miles - 8 or 9 hours? you need to walk more yourself sounds like. You don't have to walk much more than 10 miles for them to do 20 miles in all seriousness.

Your comments are obviously ill informed and you have an axe to grind for some reason, I have always owned working dog breeds and they make very obedient, quality companions.

I'm talking abou the miles you need to do, not the dog.

They do, if trained, not just bought becuase they are a fashionable/pretty accessory.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

where the hell do you live?

as I said previously it seems to me it's you with the problem, not the dogs and dog owners, if I came up to you with my dog walking to heel you'd probably shoot it




Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you shoudn't have bought the animal in the first place.

or

Walk, then walk some more, then a bit more and then some more, and if you haven't got enough time to do enough walking , then you should have set off earlier - no need for that horrible dangerous bicycle

S Wales.
Nope, as I said I have no problem with a dog under control, it's rare that I see one. Plus I neither have a shotgun , need for one, or livestock any more, hence no reason to shoot dogs.

 

[Lee_M]

S Wales.
Nope, as I said I have no problem with a dog under control, it's rare that I see one. Plus I neither have a shotgun , need for one, or livestock any more, hence no reason to shoot dogs.

it must be living in Wales then! English dogs are always under perfect control

 

[thegravestoneman]

Take my Jack Russell out regularly on my Butchers bike, I carry him in the basket on the road work but have him on an extendable lead when we are on the old tracks or canal paths. He loves the extra speed that cycling brings him, but being able to put him in the basket gives us more range, so he gets to see more places. If he s#its I stop and pick it up as usual. I am off in about ten minutes to do 12 mile with him, he will walk/run about 8 of that. All I would recommend is start in wide open spaces and find his strengths and weaknesses.

 

[chqshaitan]

great picture just watch out for tornado's or you could be off to see th wizard :P

 

[raindog]

Take my Jack Russell out regularly on my Butchers bike

brilliant photo - made my day that has