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