How to Train Your Dog to Pull Carts

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ty Brown with dogbehavioronline.com. Today we're here in Riverton, Utah teaching you how to train a dog. The topic of today's discussion is teaching your dog how to pull a cart. Now when your teaching your dog how to pull a cart, the first thing to take into consideration is the proper equipment. Make sure to, make sure to purchase a harness that is specially built for pulling a cart. The harness is going to have extra padding because eventually the dog is going to build up to pulling a lot of weight and is going to need that padding for comfort. The second thing you want to do once the dog is properly fit in his harness, is teach him how to start pulling things. How, get a wagon that's empty or even some milk jugs so that he can experience pulling something behind him that's a little bit noisy and a little bit weird. Get him used to doing that, and as he does start to pull it, give him the command, "pull". Once he starts to understand the concept of pull means go forward, then you can start adding weight to the cart. Add rocks, add other items that are heavy. Get him to the point to where he can pull a decent amount of weight. At that point, then you can start making it functional and you can pile the kids into the cart and you can start taking the dog and teaching him how to pull your kids around the yard. There's nothing more fun for a dog than teaching him how to cart around the yard and teaching him a new skill that's going to help him bond with you."