Utility Cycling - So my dog is really heavy...
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mickey85
03-17-09, 10:54 AM
I have a greyhound. He weighs 90 lbs. I've looked and looked at enclosed trailers that would be able to deal with his weight, and everything that isn't a kid trailer is either height limited, or restricted to a max of 75 lbs. I'd be willing to try a child trailer, but I'm not sure if that would work for a 4 legged friend or not...
The entire purpose of this exercise is that eventually, I would want to use my bike as much as possible, sell my car, and just keep my drag-racer. HOwever, I would need a trailer to cart him (and probably a basket on the front for my 30 lb beagle)...
So, any ideas?
crackerdog
03-17-09, 11:42 AM
Get a wide Bikes At Work trailer and make your own cover or attach dog crates to it. You can get them as long as you want/need.
badmother
03-17-09, 03:37 PM
:wtf: Pulling a Greyhound in a trailer?
What`s next? Pulling a horse in a biketrailer???
Let the poor thing run for christs sake :twitchy:
chicbicyclist
03-17-09, 04:52 PM
Burley makes trailers with a hundred lbs limit. The only thing about kid's trailers is that they have flimsy floors. I improvised and simply used climbing nylon webbing and weaved it at the bottom for better floor support. 6-10 feet should do. Use tons and tons of knots!
crackerdog
03-17-09, 06:05 PM
:wtf: Pulling a Greyhound in a trailer?
What`s next? Pulling a horse in a biketrailer???
Let the poor thing run for christs sake :twitchy:
There are some roads I won't let my dog run on so I put her in the trailer in that section. Then when it is safe, out she comes again.
mickey85
03-18-09, 05:36 AM
:wtf: Pulling a Greyhound in a trailer?
What`s next? Pulling a horse in a biketrailer???
Let the poor thing run for christs sake :twitchy:
OK...Greyhounds are sprinters. He gets tired after walking five miles. My vet is 10 miles away. Want him to run alongside my bike for 10 miles? He'd probably be dead after that...
Anyway, aside from loading him into a car I won't have, do you have a better idea?
Cracker, thanks for the tips!
And yeah, the poor thing does run, and Christ's sakes have nothing to do with a greyhound running...regardless, a two acre fenced run is more than enough for him.
Metzinger
03-18-09, 06:24 AM
I've got it.
1. Buy the trailer with the max 75 pound limit. That number is probably conservative.
2. Put your dog on a diet. I don't advocate cruelty... but 90 lbs? For a greyhound? Ask your vet about this.
Good luck.
I've taken my 105 pound lab to the vet in a pet carrier on a Burly Flatbed trailer.
mickey85
03-18-09, 08:47 AM
I've got it.
1. Buy the trailer with the max 75 pound limit. That number is probably conservative.
2. Put your dog on a diet. I don't advocate cruelty... but 90 lbs? For a greyhound? Ask your vet about this.
Good luck.
90 lbs. He's AKC, not NGA, so he's built heavier. He was 86 when he was in a kennel as a coyote dog. The vet actually thinks that 90 is still a couple pounds light. There are some AKC's that are 120+.
http://www.gobacktothebasics.com/old_time_stories_and_facts_of_the_coyote.htm
Sportsmen would have to travel far to find a more slam-bang sporting event than the coyote hunts that Nebraskans of the Sand Hills country put on at every opportunity.
The gist of the sport is setting a pack of greyhounds on the trail of a coyote and following the chase at a near-fifty-mph clip in the stripped-down truck known locally as the coyote car.
Arthur came from Marion, IN from a kennel that would course Coyotes as a job - farmers would call and would have "coyote hounds" come to their property to take out the coyotes. You need to use the heavier-boned AKC dogs to do this, because the NGA's would be torn to shreds.
Metzinger
03-18-09, 09:08 AM
^sweet mother of god...
Kimmitt
03-18-09, 08:22 PM
That's pretty much totally awesome.
a: Holy crap that's awesome on the coyote dog story.
b: I use one of these, good to 100 lbs:
http://www.doggyride.com//simpleproduct.aspx?cs_productid=doggyride%20original09&cs_category=doggyride&cs_catalog=DoggyRide-CA&catalognavigationbreadcrumbs=DoggyRide-CA;doggyride&showtop=true&MSCSProfile=DCCDF22EB27065BE11FC1F00686CD2E1AC3481B3AF4981D70BE0F887B57EE44F50ABDDEA20CB6D010CC4D800 A4A049604F900BEC380471A64B5B0302C62EC58664837E6728964A6C2F10DCACA0E724302267422AD411F38EA7A1922E0D58 AFD202DE176B9F278AADB426007AE3EF2D3873093458D483AF9048E57AC764162C5F&UserPref=SelectedPurchaseCountry^CA|culture^en-US