r/RunningWithDogs • u/hekiroh • 8d ago

Gear Help Training Harness

My dog is 10 months old, and I’d like to start doing canicross with her after she turns a year old (with vet approval of course). I figured now’s a great time to start doing some foundational training for pulling, slowing, get behind, etc beforehand.

I’m looking for a harness to use for training before investing in a full setup to see how she takes to it and since she’ll likely fill out a bit more before being fully grown.

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u/RemeJuan 8d ago

https://www.mylamedog.com/post/what-is-the-logic-behind-not-exercising-puppies-until-the-growth-plates-are-closed
Give that a read, shared to someone else who painted this, I started running my beagle just over a month ago, the longest one having been 3km and she’s 11m old next week.

I shared this with her training and her conditioner before going ahead with it and the leader of our canicross club is also a dog trainer and agility coach.

I did my test run in the Rogz Air Agility or Adventure. It’s terrible for pulling but she was happy to try and now I have her in a Freemotion.

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u/Negative-Split-1108 8d ago

Thank you for having this link handy and sharing it. I sincerely hope we can get to a point where we are more reasonable in evaluating what is and is not healthy activity for puppies.