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Truly Great Adventures Begin with a Best Friend at Your Side
Its a great big wonderful world out thereso big that most young hikers, experienced or not, would do well to enlist the help of a capable guide. Enter the family dog. Husky or half-pint, lapdog or Labrador, your dog was born a highly skilled wilderness guide. Employing his or her acute senses of smell, hearing, and vision, your dog can point you to countless signs of life on the trail, turning the average walk in the woods into an exciting wilderness adventure. The Trail Hounds Handbook by Ellen Eastwood is your best source for planning dog-powered hikes, basic hiking etiquette and safe practices, clues to spotting wildlife along the trail, and assorted tips to make hiking with dogs simple and fun. Learn to recognize your dogs unique wilderness skills, and find a new way to bond with your familys best friend.
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The Trail Hounds Handbook
1st EDITION 2012
Copyright 2012 by Ellen Eastwood
All interior and back cover photos, except as noted on page 71, by Ellen Eastwood, family, and friends
Front cover photo Alaska Stock/Alamy
Cover design: Scott McGrew
Interior design: Ellen Eastwood
Editor: Amber Kaye Henderson
Veterinary Consultant: Emily Boothroyd, DVM
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eastwood, Ellen.
The trail hounds handbook : your family guide to hiking with dogs/Ellen Eastwood. -- 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89997-703-4
ISBN-10: 0-89997-703-0
1. Hiking with dogs. 2. Family recreation. I. Title.
SF427.455.E37 2012
796.51--dc23
2011047236
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Disclaimer
The Trail Hounds Handbook is designed to engage and encourage the young dog owner to hike and explore nature with his or her pet at his or her side. It is not intended to be a comprehensive hiking and/or pet care guide. As with all outdoor activities, and especially those involving dogs, the full responsibility for safe practices and supervision belongs to the adult dog owner/parent. Wilderness Press/Keen Communications and the author in no way accept liability for any direct or indirect consequences that arise from following suggestions made in this book; readers are advised to use their own personal judgment.
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U NLEASH THE I NNER T RAIL H OUND
S CIENTISTS NOW BELIEVE THAT APPROXIMATELY 95% OF ALL DOGS DESCENDED FROM JUST THREE ORIGINAL FEMALES.
The Call of the Wild
A lot has changed in the 15,000-plus years since that first domestic canine sidled up to his human and with patient, soulful eyes begged for a treat.
Or has it?
Today, more than 400 different dog breeds exist worldwide (not all breeds are officially recognized). Yet down to the last Peekapoo and Chihuahua, pureblood and mixed breed alike, every dog can trace its lineage back to the earliest wolves. Its no mystery, then, why every breed, every size, everywhere,
Every Dog Begs to Go Outside!
Acting on Instinct
No amount of breeding or training can completely erase the numerous instinctive behaviors and characteristics written into your dogs DNA. In one way or another, these actions contributed to the survival of your dogs ancestors in the wild.
How many of these habits do you see your best friend repeating every day? What purpose do you think they serve wild mammals?
Your dog responds to natures call, and then stands to his full height and paws the ground furiously, grass flying, as he wipes his feet. Compulsive hygiene?
Actually, its instinct. For his wilder ancestors, this routine was another way to mark territory, using the scent/sweat glands in the pads of their feet. This primal instinct establishes your dogs turf.
Plus, it makes even the smallest Chihuahua look large and in charge.
F IDO, AN ENDURING FAVORITE AMONG DOG NAMES, COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD FOR FAITHFUL OR FIDELITY.
Prepare to Walk on the Wild Side
Social, territorial, predatoryany of your dogs naturally inherited Canidae family traits can be intensified by the stimulation of an outdoor environment. Thats why, in your early wilderness adventures together, you should never assume that you know exactly how your dog will behave. Prepare yourself by mastering basic dog obedience skills. Practice, praise, and repeat.
With preparation, consideration, and a few choice tricks, this guidebook can give your pack the confidence to set out on new adventures and enjoy countless hours of discovery on the trail.
Christine McGourty, Origin of Dogs Traced, BBC News (2002).
Y OU S CRATCH H IS B ACK
Does your dog get enough exercise? Has it been weeks since hes chewed on a good problem? Is he begging for more time at your side? Take your dog hiking! Every shared adventure promises more than just an afternoon of fun.
Chewing, Barking, Marking, Grazing, and General Mayhem
Misbehavior from good dogs (and theyre all good dogs) is most often a sign of loneliness, boredom, frustration, or feelings of neglect.
Ironically, daily exercise and togetherness may be all it takes to squash a host of destructive behaviors.
Good Hike, Good Dog
Treat your dog to a day in the sun, and youll appreciate the beauty of it long after youve returned home.
A well-exercised dog is eager to please and more easily trained. Tired and content, he or she will have little energy for begging and barking and being underfoot. Finally, dogs who indulge all their senses on natures bounty have less of an appetite for the menu at home: the well-oiled baseball glove, those totally kickin boots, your orthodontic retainer
All I Really Need
If your dog had the words to tell you everything that means anything to him in this world, he (or she!) wouldnt need many:
Alpha
Your dogs world already revolves around you. Expand his orbit to include adventures together outdoors, and the bond between Alpha and animal can grow even stronger. Imagine the effect that would have on your dogs training.
Exercise
Even with four legs to stand on, every extra pound weighs heavily on your dogs health. In breeds prone to joint or heart problems, weight issues or obesity are more dangerous still.
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