Frozen ground

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

I'm not arguing with anybody and I dont care what anybody thinks but we do run them on frozen ground every day we go out. If we did not, we would never get to go. It was -11 farenheight, not celsius, Sunday morning when we left the house. Thats what my winters consist of, we dont have a choice and we catch coyotes all winter long.

[sandymere 8,263]

If theres snow then no problem but on just rock hard frosty ground I don't run them, my bitch already has dodgy feet from to many years running rough ground so one frozen gallop and shes laid up for a week, the bull cross has good feet but they need to last a few seasons yet so I'll not take any chances. Off in the morn so will be on the beach so they can have a good gallop/ball work to keep them ticking over till can get em out lamping.

[longdog13 36]

I'm not arguing with anybody and I dont care what anybody thinks but we do run them on frozen ground every day we go out. If we did not, we would never get to go. It was -11 farenheight, not celsius, Sunday morning when we left the house. Thats what my winters consist of, we dont have a choice and we catch coyotes all winter long.

:clapper: :thumbs:

[solostoke 1]

i wouldnt lamp in this weather but i walk my dogs off the lead and they run about just they know not to go flat out!! at least they still get out of breath and stay fit ish.

[inan 841]

For some of you on here the grounds been frozen for close to two months now, so do you run your dogs on it or do you rest them up until it finally thaws?

I know a lot of other countries run their dogs on frozen ground, so why don't we? do their dogs just have better feet?

Not me,Ive seen too many dogs have their feet f****d, by running on frozen plough etc, not worth it imo.

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

If a dog is raised tough, they will be tough. I wouldnt take a track greyhound out and run em on this frozen shit but our dogs grow up on this stuff and are as tough as the coyotes they are catchin and killin.

[whippet 99 2,613]

hard ground is no excuse to not walk your dog. my dogs go out every day- off the lead. if they bush a bunny then so be it. but dont go asking for trouble by lamping in these conditions. weather is no excuse to keep the dogs in the kennels

only a monkey would run a dog in a frozen ploughed field.

coyote lads spot on. no different ground than the rock hard summer , where you will see alot of posts on walking the dogs - keeping them fit on the hard summer ground. people look out the window and blame the ground for not taking the dogs out. bet your bottom dollar they will be the lads who are claiming the social- lazy

[bullmastiff 615]

I think that might be the reason Dan, yours have grown up playing and running on frozen ground so their feet get used to it? where as ours are mainly used to wet, soft, soil?

 

Whippet 99, you can't keep me and the dogs indoors when it's like this, I love it!

Walk for as long and as fast as you like and you still don't get hot and sweaty. Plus of course you get the obvious upsides that you can see the tracks through the frost so get to learn where differant animals feed, lay up for the day/night etc. and routes they use between them. Always useful to know

Edited January 5, 2010 by bullmastiff

[micheal 0]

If a dog is raised tough, they will be tough. I wouldnt take a track greyhound out and run em on this frozen shit but our dogs grow up on this stuff and are as tough as the coyotes they are catchin and killin.

100% you wont win though on here, to many people just like to sit on the computers and argue

[GET THEM OUT (.)(.) 39]

i carry on mooching with my lot, and lamping when the ground is hard, , was going to go out last night but full moon, no wind, and snow i thought it would be best to leave it, , the ground or type of ground has never stopped me running my two bitches, they have never cut up yet, but they have feet like no other lurcher i have witnessed, , each to there own,

why what they got feet like? no dog should run this hard ground and anyone who does is being cruel to their dog ffs would you run flat out with bare feet on it:wallbash:

 

 

he asked for peoples opions and got them, so why are you ????

 

i know my bitches, i know what they are capble of and what they are not, i wouldnt run my younger bitch as hard on a hard night because at 1 year old she isnt fully developed, but her dam gets as many runs as any other night, i know when they need to stop, so there is no problem, my older bitch has only ever had 1 cut on her foot and that was from chicken wire, she is now 4 year old, the ground we run is very steep, flinty/chalky land,

 

see pic,

 

 

i have seen lads bring there dogs down here and not last 2 hours before there dogs were cripped, our lot grow up with this, so abit of frozen ground is not much different,

[bullmastiff 615]

Had ground just like that where I used to Keeper - all Chalk and Flint. It could slice straight through the tyre of the Gator! we ended up putting two cans of tyreweld stuff in each, most weeks their would be a new lump of pink rubber hanging out of the tyre! running at lower pressures also reduced the amount of cuts they got.

Tia was about a year old then and would jog/run next to the Gator all day on it and very rarely hurt her feet, an occasional Flint splinter dug into a pad and thats about it. I wouldn't dare try it with Roo though, his feet just aren't good enough for it.

[The one 8,483]

Been frozen here for at least two week so ive been walking mine of a local golf course off the leads and yesterday the spanniel sliced open its ear and the lab opened upa back pad and the lucher was limping a bit but i couldn't see anything and think that the salt was nipping a bit ??.but what are you supposed to do to keep them fit ??

[GET THEM OUT (.)(.) 39]

Had ground just like that where I used to Keeper - all Chalk and Flint. It could slice straight through the tyre of the Gator! we ended up putting two cans of tyreweld stuff in each, most weeks their would be a new lump of pink rubber hanging out of the tyre! running at lower pressures also reduced the amount of cuts they got.

Tia was about a year old then and would jog/run next to the Gator all day on it and very rarely hurt her feet, an occasional Flint splinter dug into a pad and thats about it. I wouldn't dare try it with Roo though, his feet just aren't good enough for it.

 

that is bad, the trucks are fine around here, its not as bad as what you just mentioned, but all the same its very tough for " most " dogs,

[bullmastiff 615]

It's not quite as bad as it sounds, it's just that the tyres are made from such soft rubber on the Gator. The Subaru Pickup was usually fine on it.

 

The One - I'm back out on the bloody bike with Roo doing roadwork whilst it's frozen. I thought I had managed to put it away till the end of the season, Damn it!

Tia and the pup are both left to do their own thing but I keep Roo on an extendable lead when out walking the fields.

Edited January 6, 2010 by bullmastiff

[GET THEM OUT (.)(.) 39]

I'm back out on the bloody bike with Roo doing roadwork whilst it's frozen. I thought I had managed to put it away till the end of the season, Damn it!

Tia and the pup are both left to do their own thing but I keep Roo on an extendable lead when out walking the fields.

 

 

extendable leads !!!

 

i thought they was for yapping westie owners who are over 60, and have sented poo bag holders strapped to there lead handle, ,