I would have to say a Malamute as they can pull you up the hills!! Or a Husky....you just wait to see how fast you can run when they see sheep!! My Dog will run any distance when it's under 10 degrees! Not great company for summer runs though!
I would have to say a Malamute as they can pull you up the hills!! Or a Husky....you just wait to see how fast you can run when they see sheep!! My Dog will run any distance when it's under 10 degrees! Not great company for summer runs though!
And as others said - go for a young rescue!! I did that two years ago and would always do that again.
Same problem with my Finnish Lapphund. Great running dog aside from that though. No top end speed but will trundle along all day.Originally Posted by vburke
We've got a lab but he's shite at running.
He's from a more stockier breed of lab (Crank-ross i think its called) compared to the normal drakes-head gun/working dog.
But my aunty has a soft coated wheeton terrier called Dastardly who is epic at running.
He's really skittish when you come to cross a road though but thats ok as i just stick to the fields when i take him.
My uncle wasnt too keen on my taking him running because he said it tires him out too much.....now he runs laps around me so i not sure what my uncle is trying to say....maybe its because he doesnt participate in anything physical himself so he's anti-running.
I've never tried him on the fells though, but im planning on going to the lakes on friday so i might ask if i can take him to give me some company.
Anybody know if dogs are allowed on busses and trains?
yes they are and, if you've only got one, you don't have to pay for them.
Cheers!
Don't go for an irish wolfhound, naievely (sp??) I thought big dog would be happy with a big run. Took my mother in laws over Ilkley moors for bout 45mins, came back it flopped and did nothing for next 24hrs about from drink 2 buckets of water.
Whoops
nearly 10 miles with badger tonight
just make sure if you run your dog you allow him plenty of water stops.
This Lab had plenty of stops. We ran out and back thro the bottom of a valley. Several times he was taken to the streamside. The halfway point is the outlet of a lake, you have to cross the stepping stones. I paused here with him.
This hound will not drink, unless the waters in his stainless steel bowl. Not only that... this labrador, a water dog, doesn't want to get wet..? He searched for and used the stepping stones!!!
This Lab had plenty of stops. We ran out and back thro the bottom of a valley. Several times he was taken to the streamside. The halfway point is the outlet of a lake, you have to cross the stepping stones. I paused here with him.
This hound will not drink, unless the waters in his stainless steel bowl. Not only that... this labrador, a water dog, doesn't want to get wet..? He searched for and used the stepping stones!!!
totally opposite to badger
he has never and I mean never drank out of his bowl
our fish pond
puddles
streams
beck
toilet
river
canal
anything but his bowl ( you tell me)
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