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You haven’t lived, not really, until you’ve experienced the thrill of tandem dog-carting.

MUSH!

Building a tandem dog cart.

By Adam Thornton and Amy Horton

We are owned by three Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs. The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog was bred as a general-purpose farm dog, but one of their traditional tasks has been hauling carts full of milk jugs. They’re relatives of the St. Bernard, the Rottweiler, and particularly the Bernese Mountain Dog. They can be thought of as “the poor man’s horse,” although they make for peculiarly snuggly horses.

Drafting with Dogs

Canine drafting has a fairly large ...

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