Re: [pyrnet] Carting question

["Amy Bailey" <newbailey@attbi.com>]

Hello,

Based on an experience with Jascha, I would guess that Romy might not
understand why he is pulling a cart.

Jascha watched Elinor, the black lab fetching balls and presented himself
for his turn.  I threw the ball, he ran to it, picked it up and returned to
me and dropped it at my feet perfectly without a bit of instruction.   I
told him how wonderful, he was, picked it up and threw it again.  He looked
at me, then repeated his retrieval again perfectly.  Again I told him how
wonderful he was, picked up the ball, and threw it.  He looked at me, looked
at where the ball went, looked at me again and turned around to go lie down
under the tree, with a swagger that said, if I was dumb enough to keep
throwing the ball, I could go get it myself!

Romy knows how to pull the cart, he does it well, the question is why should
he ?

Amy


----- Original Message -----
From: <LESRVG@aol.com>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 5:41 PM
Subject: [pyrnet] Carting question


> Hello,
>
> We have started Romy carting.  To learn how to do this we read quite a bit
of
> stuff on-line as well as info from Dog Works, Inc. where we bought his
> harness system.  We also bought a how-to video from them that we have
> followed closely.
>
> He is now carting but seems to be having one small problem.  He does not
want
> to get the cart started from a dead stop.  I thought maybe the cart was to
> heavy so we hooked him up to a 5 pound cart (the shaft poles outweighed
the
> thing) and the same thing happened.  Once he starts going (with lots of
> encouragement in front of him...we never pull on his lead to start him)
then
> he goes really well.  In fact he even runs well with it and makes broad
turns
> nicely.
>
> Do you folks have any advice or ideas?  Perhaps a cinch is too tight (they
> seem ok but maybe I should give him more room somewhere, especially the
chest
> for deep breaths) or do you suppose it is just an experience thing.
>
> Any advise is welcome.  I will also check the internet for other ideas.
>
> Thanks in advance folks.
>
> Keith, Soo, Dusty, and Romy
>
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