Summary: Learn tips on how train sled dogs to turn in a dogsled race in this free instructional video clip about the dogsled race in Iditarod.
Lachlan & Linda Clarke make up TEAM CLARKE: We first became interested in dog sledding in 2002 and have been avidly training dogs ever since. We have 6 races under our belt,...read more
" Hi! I’m Lachland Clarke on behalf of Expert Village. I would like to invite you to visit our website at www.teamclarke.org. Haw is left and G is right and when I get up close to the turn I will start to put the brake on, the mat. I will start to slow them down. Anytime you slow a dog team down, that is their cue for a transition coming up. Okay. How do you train them to turn? I usually put them with a leader that is already trained and if you are training a bunch of dogs and you don’t have any leaders to help, you would run small teams like 6 or 8 dogs and you go up and you say the word and you push them into the turn or pull them with your hands. Got to have small teams for training dogs completely. "
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