Re: [PyrNet-L] carting pictures

["Janice Swenson" <janices@jump.net>]

On 23 Nov 98, at 20:47, Gitano Road wrote:
> I love the pictures Janice! I an so sorry I am sick as I missed it. I look
> forward to the day when JOY will be able to start carting school. She
> still has a ways to grow yet I think. I do have a question re the travois?
> Can a person ride in this? Or is it just for a child or for hauling? Have
> never seen one before. And as always-the dogs looked fantastic! Great job

A travois can haul about 70 lbs.  We use them a lot for training and 
for taking draft tests.  Sonny is my novice carter and is still 
learning.  Find it easier to train them in the travois and he will take 
his draft tests in the travois.  Someone in our newf club made the 
travois for me.  In about another month he'll be to the point he can 
go into cart and start learning team carting with my newfie.  The 
cart I have converts very easily to a team and that's my goal to 
have them carting together for fun stuff.  Actually, my newfie will be 
trying for her team carting title in March with a newfie friend. 

Janice, janices@jump.net
Admiral & Linsey (newfs), Bianca & Sonny (pyrs)  
http://www.jump.net/~janices/
Leander, TX
Visit Old West Newfoundland Club's website at  
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