SLEDDOG with CZW

BWolf · 07-02-2007, 16:19

Hi everyone,
Last weekend me and my wife, after a lot of training on mud and grass, went to dogsledding on snow with our czws.
We all had a lot of fun and we find out how good are our wolvesdog in that discipline.
Since what I know, in Italy nobody have experience on it (sleddog with czw).
Any of you have it? Do you know anyone that has it?
Please, let me know. I'd like to share experiences, comments, problems, details or suggestions with someone really interested on it.
Now I post some pictures taken last tuesday between Tarvisio (Italy) and Kranjska Gora (SLO). Enjoy:

Cheers,

Stefano

furyos · 07-02-2007, 16:33

hi ....y m so happy see yu work with yur dogs in this discipline because the last time some people say "wolfdog are not huskies" but we can note they take pleasure in this sport ....good training and pleasure with them ...y begun in avril with ossa and merlin with kart training for pleasure too ..... friendly frank(ps:so nice pictures ....)

Koos · 07-02-2007, 17:04

Hi, Stefano,

Take contact with some owners and breeders in the Slovak Republique.

There are some people with have their dog on the sledge.

Beginning of years 1990, there was the owner of the kennel Krotkovskeho Dvora very succesfull with the sledges. He won several prices.

Greetings,

Letty from Holland

BWolf · 07-02-2007, 19:13

Different people ask me more details on this experience with private msgs so, with pleasure, i write here for everyone:
Everything is started 15 years ago with Belle a young siberian husky. At that time We was able to have only one dog so we never had a real sleddog team but we enter in that word training our husky, following races, becaming ESDRA judges and dreaming about the day we could be able to have an our own team. In september 2005 "we've been kept" by Ely (our first czw) and we started training her since she was a puppy (10 months old) with Belle. She teached how to follow the trail during our trekking. So, they were used to walk together side by side in front of us. Last March Belle passed away and we kept traing Ely with Yuk (our second czw). Because of lack of snow in our country we went out with them just for trekking and running in the wood, grass and mud :-(.
We are very lucky because both of our dogs have a strong desire to run and we let them run free every morning and every evening during the week and we go out with them almost every weekend.
Last year we partecipated to a couple of dogtrekking races and they ran very well. We had problems only because if they met each other during the trail it was impossible separate each other any more and keep running with different rithms (they ONLY wanted run together!).
So in the next months we went to trekking together and we linked eachother with a so-called "neckline". A little lesh that link the two dog (always used in sleddog).
Last week we went to see a race in Tarvisio and the days after we tryied to make the great jump into the word of sleddog with our two cwz. And the result has been amazing!
The first day they run for 6 kms, with just a few stops (that we decided), and every time we restart they just can't wait to come back to run: it was really amazing, and unaspected (for us). The day after we made 4 rounds of 2kms each, and every time we stopped they (Ely in particular) got crazy because of her willing to run again! Every one was shocked by this!
They ran so fast that sometimes we had to slowdown the sled! I can assure you that with only two dogs in your team this is NOT normal! Is much more probably that you have to help your dog running with them

- Furyos, thanks for your compliments and I can assure you that the people who says "wolfdog are not huskies" are TOTALLY RIGHT!

Thanks again to everyone: It's always a pleasure to write about these and I look forward to hear more experiences from you

Stefano

Mirkawolf · 07-02-2007, 19:42

Hello Stefano,

Hanka Kaufmannova from Czech republic, kennel Od Uhoste likes to do sledge with her CSW´s. I have here a photo that she sent me some time ago. Maybe she will read this thread and come to share more info and pictures from her activities.

Mirkawolf · 07-02-2007, 19:46

more photos from Hanka Kaufmannova:

Hanka · 07-02-2007, 20:32

Hello Stefano,
I have a lot of fotos from mushing too. My dogs like it very much. We do long trips over the mountains. But this winter we have not snow

We train with scooter, now. If you want more info, fotos, write me to my privat adress, please: [email protected]

To Mirka: thanks for including of fotos

. You can use more fotos from me, if you want

Hanka, kennel od Uhoste, Czech republic

Rona · 07-02-2007, 20:49

All the pictures are just GREAT! Th dogs seem to enjoy sledging even more than people

Congratulations!

PS. Have you seen Hanka's dogs in a movie on Per Olav's site?
http://www.wolfdog.no/galleri/video/sledetur.wmv

Hanka · 07-02-2007, 21:31

Yes

. But it is video from funny only, with children sledge . I have videos with normal sledge, with scooter,....

BWolf · 08-02-2007, 00:31

Mirka thanks for the pictures: it's great to know that we're not alone

Hanka, I'll contact you asap: I can't wait to know more details about your experience.
Thanx Rona for the video: it's pure and amazing at the same time: congratulations to Hanka! I can assure you we were very proud of our dogs, but it was the first time and the adrenalina was high!

Stefano

Per Olav · 08-02-2007, 10:27

Great pictures

--
Per Olav

hanninadina · 09-02-2007, 12:23

Really great all the pics and the video!!!! Super!!!!

I have a 15 month old male csw and 5 year old Briard French herding dog. He is crazy for runing. We took 2 month ago part at the dryland sledgdog worldchampionship in germany for the german national team in the categorie bikejöring. Although he has a short back is runing his heart out of his body. For the people who don´t know what bikejöring is, I am sitting on my mountain bike and Hanni is in front of me with a line on the bike or at my body how you like it. And than in the last two month we started training U´Tala. With Hanni I never needed to train but with my csw yes. But I go in front with Hanni and my 11 year old daughter follows with Tala. And sometimes he is a bit bit faster than Hanni. And Hanni is aorund top ten in the world (8th, 9 th place), in germany top 3. So I am looking forward for the next winter than we will start races with him. He has a more long body like a cheetah, which are the fastest animals as everybody knows. The bikejöring distances are between 3 and 7 km. Yesterday there was lot of snow here in germany, but today it is to warm. But I think we will get more snow and than we go by sledg.

By

christian

BWolf · 09-02-2007, 15:41

Great Christian!
I good to hear the also in D someone else is trying this way

Please let us know how will be your training and how your csw will learn.
Good luck for the snow and I hope to hear from you soon

cheers,

Stefano

PS: And don't forget to post some pictures

BWolf · 09-02-2007, 15:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWolf

Great Christian!
I good to hear the also in D someone else is trying this way

OOPS

I wanted to write:
"
It's good to hear that also in D someone else is trying this way

"

Sorry about that .

BWolf · 18-02-2008, 23:57

On the trail again

Pictures taken last weekend, like last year: same place, same dogs, same willing of running!

... standing ... before start again ...

Stefano

PS: Still waiting for some pics from you Christian

Per Olav · 19-02-2008, 00:27

Great pics

--
PO

mijke · 19-02-2008, 11:33

WOW! What a nice and great pictures!

Rona · 19-02-2008, 12:15

They seem the happiest wolfdogs in the world

Fantastic pictures of GREAT FUN!

BWolf · 21-02-2008, 00:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rona

They seem the happiest wolfdogs in the world

That's ACTUALLY why we do it, and, asap, we'll do it again

Thanks,

Stefano

BWolf · 12-02-2009, 07:51

On the trail again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEGTKTGoww

07-02-2007, 16:19	#1
BWolf Ely, Yuk e Megh Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bologna Posts: 994	SLEDDOG with CZW Hi everyone, Last weekend me and my wife, after a lot of training on mud and grass, went to dogsledding on snow with our czws. We all had a lot of fun and we find out how good are our wolvesdog in that discipline. Since what I know, in Italy nobody have experience on it (sleddog with czw). Any of you have it? Do you know anyone that has it? Please, let me know. I'd like to share experiences, comments, problems, details or suggestions with someone really interested on it. Now I post some pictures taken last tuesday between Tarvisio (Italy) and Kranjska Gora (SLO). Enjoy: Cheers, Stefano __________________ Stefano, Fulvia, Ely, Yuk e Megh Il blog dei lupastri di Ca' Desideria

07-02-2007, 19:13	#4
BWolf Ely, Yuk e Megh Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bologna Posts: 994	Different people ask me more details on this experience with private msgs so, with pleasure, i write here for everyone: Everything is started 15 years ago with Belle a young siberian husky. At that time We was able to have only one dog so we never had a real sleddog team but we enter in that word training our husky, following races, becaming ESDRA judges and dreaming about the day we could be able to have an our own team. In september 2005 "we've been kept" by Ely (our first czw) and we started training her since she was a puppy (10 months old) with Belle. She teached how to follow the trail during our trekking. So, they were used to walk together side by side in front of us. Last March Belle passed away and we kept traing Ely with Yuk (our second czw). Because of lack of snow in our country we went out with them just for trekking and running in the wood, grass and mud :-(. We are very lucky because both of our dogs have a strong desire to run and we let them run free every morning and every evening during the week and we go out with them almost every weekend. Last year we partecipated to a couple of dogtrekking races and they ran very well. We had problems only because if they met each other during the trail it was impossible separate each other any more and keep running with different rithms (they ONLY wanted run together!). So in the next months we went to trekking together and we linked eachother with a so-called "neckline". A little lesh that link the two dog (always used in sleddog). Last week we went to see a race in Tarvisio and the days after we tryied to make the great jump into the word of sleddog with our two cwz. And the result has been amazing! The first day they run for 6 kms, with just a few stops (that we decided), and every time we restart they just can't wait to come back to run: it was really amazing, and unaspected (for us). The day after we made 4 rounds of 2kms each, and every time we stopped they (Ely in particular) got crazy because of her willing to run again! Every one was shocked by this! They ran so fast that sometimes we had to slowdown the sled! I can assure you that with only two dogs in your team this is NOT normal! Is much more probably that you have to help your dog running with them - Furyos, thanks for your compliments and I can assure you that the people who says "wolfdog are not huskies" are TOTALLY RIGHT! Thanks again to everyone: It's always a pleasure to write about these and I look forward to hear more experiences from you Stefano __________________ Stefano, Fulvia, Ely, Yuk e Megh Il blog dei lupastri di Ca' Desideria

07-02-2007, 19:42	#5
Mirkawolf Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Brussels Posts: 556	Hello Stefano, Hanka Kaufmannova from Czech republic, kennel Od Uhoste likes to do sledge with her CSW´s. I have here a photo that she sent me some time ago. Maybe she will read this thread and come to share more info and pictures from her activities. __________________ :: :: :: Cira & Ali & Tulip :: :: :: http://vlcisen.mirkawolf.com

07-02-2007, 19:46	#6
Mirkawolf Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Brussels Posts: 556	more photos more photos from Hanka Kaufmannova: __________________ :: :: :: Cira & Ali & Tulip :: :: :: http://vlcisen.mirkawolf.com

08-02-2007, 00:31	#10
BWolf Ely, Yuk e Megh Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bologna Posts: 994	Mirka thanks for the pictures: it's great to know that we're not alone Hanka, I'll contact you asap: I can't wait to know more details about your experience. Thanx Rona for the video: it's pure and amazing at the same time: congratulations to Hanka! I can assure you we were very proud of our dogs, but it was the first time and the adrenalina was high! Stefano __________________ Stefano, Fulvia, Ely, Yuk e Megh Il blog dei lupastri di Ca' Desideria

07-02-2007, 16:33	#2
furyos Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 729	hi ....y m so happy see yu work with yur dogs in this discipline because the last time some people say "wolfdog are not huskies" but we can note they take pleasure in this sport ....good training and pleasure with them ...y begun in avril with ossa and merlin with kart training for pleasure too ..... friendly frank(ps:so nice pictures ....)

07-02-2007, 17:04	#3
Koos Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 731	Hi, Stefano, Take contact with some owners and breeders in the Slovak Republique. There are some people with have their dog on the sledge. Beginning of years 1990, there was the owner of the kennel Krotkovskeho Dvora very succesfull with the sledges. He won several prices. Greetings, Letty from Holland

07-02-2007, 20:32	#7
Hanka Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Kadaň Posts: 1,622	Hello Stefano, I have a lot of fotos from mushing too. My dogs like it very much. We do long trips over the mountains. But this winter we have not snow We train with scooter, now. If you want more info, fotos, write me to my privat adress, please: [email protected] To Mirka: thanks for including of fotos . You can use more fotos from me, if you want Hanka, kennel od Uhoste, Czech republic

07-02-2007, 20:49	#8
Rona Distinguished Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Kraków Posts: 3,509	All the pictures are just GREAT! Th dogs seem to enjoy sledging even more than people Congratulations! PS. Have you seen Hanka's dogs in a movie on Per Olav's site? http://www.wolfdog.no/galleri/video/sledetur.wmv

07-02-2007, 21:31	#9
Hanka Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Kadaň Posts: 1,622	Yes . But it is video from funny only, with children sledge . I have videos with normal sledge, with scooter,....

08-02-2007, 10:27	#11
Per Olav Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 395	Great pictures -- Per Olav

09-02-2007, 12:23	#12
hanninadina Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,466	Really great all the pics and the video!!!! Super!!!! I have a 15 month old male csw and 5 year old Briard French herding dog. He is crazy for runing. We took 2 month ago part at the dryland sledgdog worldchampionship in germany for the german national team in the categorie bikejöring. Although he has a short back is runing his heart out of his body. For the people who don´t know what bikejöring is, I am sitting on my mountain bike and Hanni is in front of me with a line on the bike or at my body how you like it. And than in the last two month we started training U´Tala. With Hanni I never needed to train but with my csw yes. But I go in front with Hanni and my 11 year old daughter follows with Tala. And sometimes he is a bit bit faster than Hanni. And Hanni is aorund top ten in the world (8th, 9 th place), in germany top 3. So I am looking forward for the next winter than we will start races with him. He has a more long body like a cheetah, which are the fastest animals as everybody knows. The bikejöring distances are between 3 and 7 km. Yesterday there was lot of snow here in germany, but today it is to warm. But I think we will get more snow and than we go by sledg. By christian

09-02-2007, 15:41	#13
BWolf Ely, Yuk e Megh Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bologna Posts: 994	Great Christian! I good to hear the also in D someone else is trying this way Please let us know how will be your training and how your csw will learn. Good luck for the snow and I hope to hear from you soon cheers, Stefano PS: And don't forget to post some pictures __________________ Stefano, Fulvia, Ely, Yuk e Megh Il blog dei lupastri di Ca' Desideria

18-02-2008, 23:57	#15
BWolf Ely, Yuk e Megh Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bologna Posts: 994	On the trail again Pictures taken last weekend, like last year: same place, same dogs, same willing of running! ... standing ... before start again ... Stefano PS: Still waiting for some pics from you Christian __________________ Stefano, Fulvia, Ely, Yuk e Megh Il blog dei lupastri di Ca' Desideria

19-02-2008, 00:27	#16
Per Olav Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 395	Great pics -- PO

19-02-2008, 11:33	#17
mijke Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Warnsveld Posts: 2,033	WOW! What a nice and great pictures! __________________ Vriendelijke groeten, Mijke PS: I am not a moderator anymore!!

19-02-2008, 12:15	#18
Rona Distinguished Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Kraków Posts: 3,509	They seem the happiest wolfdogs in the world Fantastic pictures of GREAT FUN!