Notes from a phone call: Tips to get your Dally running at axle

Just looking at some notes I made while talking to John Wilmot on the phone about getting Lusi started running at axle with the carriage.

John made several suggestions about the need for the following commands:

• Basic obedience commands
• "Heel". On and off leash heeling. In addition the dog must "heel" at the wheel. When heeling with a bicycle the dog should stay at the back wheel and not be forward of the pedals.
• "Get in" or "Get on" means the dog to get in the cart from the left hand side.
• "Lusi off" means dog to get off the cart.
• "Get under" means to get under axle or close to back step of marathon vehicle

The first stage of training to run at axle can be done on a longline, held by a passenger on the cart. (This is clearly us! We shall also probably be starting indoors in the arena since our winter snow seems to have just arrived!). Lusi is getting lots and lots of walking now and has been really good lately, (only the occasional chewing incident mars her report card!). Victoria has been doing quite a bit  of agility training with her outdoors on her woodland course luring her through a course.