Thumbnail by Sterling Lorence for Shimano. See more of his incredible trail dog images that were shot alongside with the above video hereWe did a
round up of 14 of the best dog edits back in March of 2020, but we thought we should share a few more for International Dog Day today, because who has ever seen enough dogs scrubbing jumps and taking sick inside lines?
By the way, if you missed it on April Fools, you should probably check out
check out Kona's "Instant Trail Dogs".
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As an experienced sheep wrangler thanks to dogs, mostly the dogs will do a big old out run and bring them back quite calmly at their pace or sometimes the ding at sheep's pace. It's a very methodical stop start, the beauty about herding dogs is that they can stay mentally switched on for ages. That's what they're bred for.
Often when driving live stock long distances the dogs are in the vehicles with you or are trotting/walking and repositioning. Honestly on a busy farm you can have about 6 dogs that we'll cycle through in order to keep them fresh. Probably get about 5hours work per day with about 20minutes full gas at that.
The days of walking sheep for miles and miles are dying.
Anyway just my 2cents.
Incredible animals to watch work.
On days I just want to sit back and go fast on the flow-trails I'll leave him at home to play bitey-face with my other dog (a Salurchi)
However enlarged heart because of exercise and no other cardiovascular disease seems incredibly rare and something I've never heard of before.
Your dog probably had a great time and was stoked. My Collie is slowing down at 7 and comes out riding at his own pace and he's quite good at telling me his pace and cruising. This happens once a week max.
People get worried about exercising herding dogs. If only they realised how much they just hang around like Council workers fixing roads on the farm.
It kinda seems like people just start out riding with their dogs and the dogs learn the routine. Which, like, sorta works, but isn't really enough to make me feel safe about the lil dudes.