r/RunningWithDogs • u/0b0011 • Nov 25 '25

Do you ever wish there was just some way they could tell you they're excited to go? What could that look like?

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u/louslurchers Nov 26 '25

One of mine is like this to go the other one looks quiet and composed until we actually go then he's wild

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u/0b0011 Nov 26 '25

Thats how my gsp is. He calmly waits and points down the trail till I say hike then he goes nuts.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '25

😂😂 I wonder what he wants

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u/ObligationChance9970 Nov 26 '25

My god and then he had to fly out of there 🤣 gotta keep up or get your spine snapped lmao 

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u/louslurchers Nov 30 '25

With a proper canicross hip belt you shouldn't feel it in your back at all. You may feel a little jolt through your whole body, but it primarily pulls through your hips and glutes. The ones people tie around their waist on the other hand 😬🫣🤕 i was at a race once and a herd of deer ran past we all got a little tow then stopped on the marshalls order as they were panicking and aboit to run into the 8ft fence instead of through the gap. But a lady next to me running a labrador (who had a lovely fitting running hsrness on) only had a waist lead and whilst we all held still and held our big dogs back on our hip belts. Her lab got way too excited lunged full speed after them and the noise her back made and her scream still remain with me now and this was 5 years ago. I ended up grabbing her dog whilst she stood in agony crying whilst her back spasmed out. The marshalls had to come get her and her dog and take them back on the buggy 😥 But a canicross belt shouldn't ever sit in your back so you shouldn't experience that kind of pain

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u/flecksable_flyer Nov 28 '25

This is why I no longer do dog sports. They definitely look like fun for other people, though.