{"id":3773,"date":"2011-01-25T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2011-03-25T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T01:34:00","slug":"wilderness-canoeing-with-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wilderness-canoeing-with-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness Canoeing with Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maddy<\/a>

Maddy From MaddyTheGoose.com<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m thinking about getting a dog to accompany me on some of my canoe\u00a0trips.\u00a0I got the\u00a0idea by watching\u00a0various videos\u00a0of paddler and canine, and\u00a0it just seems having\u00a0a good\u00a0dog\u00a0along would be\u00a0a perfect fit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Have a look at Maddy the Goose canoe trip videos<\/a>\u00a0and you’ll see\u00a0what I mean. In those videos Springer Spaniel Maddy is so\u00a0obedient that she seems to\u00a0be much more fun than\u00a0burden and offers no chance of running off into the wilderness after a flock or turkeys or deer. But\u00a0I’ve seen dogs on canoe trips that were more of a hassel than what their owners gained from bringing them along.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Some\u00a0ideas that come to mind\u00a0before taking a dog canoeing is to be sure they strictly obey the stay, heel and come command\u00a0without a miss.\u00a0Our terrier could never\u00a0make a good canoeing dog because she only obeys those commands when she wants to…when she thinks she’ll get a treat out of it.<\/p>\n

A question I have is whether a\u00a0natural water dog like a lab would make a good canoeing\u00a0dog? Seems logical that she would but\u00a0I once\u00a0watched a lab\u00a0nearly dump a canoe and her master into the water when she suddenly decided to go for a swim and jumped out of the canoe.<\/p>\n

One of the\u00a0most interesting dog-in-canoe situations I witnessed was a\u00a0guy who brought\u00a0his Pomeranian on a three day canoe camping trip.\u00a0He had a small dog crate mounted on top of a hard cooler\u00a0and inside is where the dog stayed during the first day of the trip. On the second day the dog gained courage and began to move around the canoe. On the third day it rained and the dog stayed inside the crate. It also turned out to\u00a0be a cool little dog\u00a0\u00a0around the campsite, but for a canoeing dog I think I’m looking for something a little different than a lap dog. Could you imagine a Pomerian\u00a0following you around on the portage trails?\u00a0One swoop from an Eagle and\u00a0your\u00a0Pom\u00a0would be gone.<\/p>\n

Maybe I can get Troy from MaddyTheGoose.com to comment in on this blog post with some suggestions and tips for canoeing with dogs.<\/p>\n

I found a few website links on this topic –<\/p>\n

Dog Channel<\/a><\/p>\n

Canada’s Guide to Dogs<\/a><\/p>\n

Born to Paddle<\/a><\/p>\n

See more photos of Maddy. <\/a><\/p>\n

Canoe dog image courtesy of archangelm<\/a> at Flickr.<\/p>\n

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I’m thinking about getting a dog to accompany me on some of my canoe\u00a0trips.\u00a0I got the\u00a0idea by watching\u00a0various videos\u00a0of paddler and canine, and\u00a0it just seems having\u00a0a good\u00a0dog\u00a0along would be\u00a0a perfect fit.\u00a0 Have a look at Maddy the Goose canoe trip … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moshannonfalls.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}