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SpotTheCat
Herding cats
What would you consider light pulling or heavy pulling? And why year and a half? I do genuinely want to knowI would wait until a year and a half before doing heavier pulling. But light pulling/getting them use to it could be done sooner.
I did find a study that found guide dog pulling was actually more force then a mushing dog, I need to find it again. Most mushing places start their dogs pulling at 6-8m old(dogs at conditioned from birth all most with lots of running and the slowly increase it) guide dog programs start their dogs in the harness at 12-18m the most common being 14m old. Its only seema to be sports and pet people that say 2y from what I can find, plus I can't find anything saying its necessary to wait that long for running and pulling
If your dog has healthy joints then as long as you build up slowly (not including jumping and stairs)there won't be a issue, its only if you dog does have bad joints that it can mess them up more
I would be interested in hearing what other people have found