Tugging - Good or bad- Proper form?
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:23 pm
I have a question on tugging. I compete in agility but do not do it with my dogs to get them revved up. Other people do esp BC people although I don't get why since those dogs are jacked up anyway!!
I see a lot of tugging that seems unsafe to be honest. Some people do it in a horizontal plane like a dog would do when shaking its' prey but I think most do vertical up and down or pulling the dog forward and backwards with a slight upward angle. The up and down is the most egregious I think but I am less sure about the second one.
Someone is advertising her fitness class online at the canine conditioning and fitness FB page. Her name is Lisa Petterson and she has a short video with demo on her fitness stuff. I caught a shot of her tugging and though it was not up and down, I felt like it may have been too extreme for the dog.
I'll never forget hearing an instructor during my chiropractic training years ago tell a story of seeing a dog( I think a JRT!) that subluxated occiput -C1. I guess that is not impossible but it sticks with me all these years later which is why I don't use a tug much. My youngest JRT likes to tug and I just usually let him pull the toy against me while I am motionless or I swoosh it back and forth horizontally along the floor while he goes crazy!!
Laurie- do you have any info or blogs on tugging and the consequences of bad tugging?
I see a lot of tugging that seems unsafe to be honest. Some people do it in a horizontal plane like a dog would do when shaking its' prey but I think most do vertical up and down or pulling the dog forward and backwards with a slight upward angle. The up and down is the most egregious I think but I am less sure about the second one.
Someone is advertising her fitness class online at the canine conditioning and fitness FB page. Her name is Lisa Petterson and she has a short video with demo on her fitness stuff. I caught a shot of her tugging and though it was not up and down, I felt like it may have been too extreme for the dog.
I'll never forget hearing an instructor during my chiropractic training years ago tell a story of seeing a dog( I think a JRT!) that subluxated occiput -C1. I guess that is not impossible but it sticks with me all these years later which is why I don't use a tug much. My youngest JRT likes to tug and I just usually let him pull the toy against me while I am motionless or I swoosh it back and forth horizontally along the floor while he goes crazy!!
Laurie- do you have any info or blogs on tugging and the consequences of bad tugging?