[Trelaboon]

So, lately i've been reading up on, and watching videos on, and looking at pictures of dogs carting. Particularly dogs carting people around like a horse chariot. I've decided i'm going to build a small cart, big enough to seat one person that I could harness and teach a dog to pull. Honestly, I don't even have a carting dog lol....Two shelties aren't gonna be much of a carter...unless I make it super small, for my 5 year old daughter to ride in....So I think i'm gonna have to look into a dog that could cart...looking to get a bigger dog of some sort this summer anywho lol. I'll post pics up as I progress....Anyone ever done this that can give some advice?

 

[BandPipe]

I haven't done this before. My grandpa had something similar made up for him as he has huskies. It was for two dogs and they were hooked in on the left (I would personally want them on the right side due to traffic.. that way I was closest to cars and not them) They had a bar that looked sort of like a J go around them and the top of the J attached to teh base of the cart where my grandpa sat. Then where he sat was just a seat on a piece of steel really with 4 wheels around (like a go cart almost just bigger wheels).

He also had breaks incase the dogs didn't listen to his command.

If you get a dog that pulls you could probably add an extra space to it to exercise the other dogs. Even though they weren't pulling they could still run beside it.

 

[lvl]

I've seen that kind of thing in parades when I was small. The ones I remember were german shepherds, great pyranees, burmese mtn dogs (spelling?), and one irish wolfhound. I love wolfhounds and vote for that one, but it's too bad they don't live very long.