This idea is working out pretty well... the dogs live, untied, in pens, with team members. They run with other dogs as well, but each has a core team . They work out the living rules among them and there are no surprises in the hookup or on the line, usually.
Buddy is a rescue , but before he aged into an arthritic shoulder, he did run the UP200. He lives with Ruthie, a leader, and Josie, a skittish little team dog. Until she died, Liller, gee haw command leader, lived with them. Since Liller is gone , they are trying to establish a new set of rules for their 'team'. Yesterday when we hooked them all up on the first team out, they were bursting their buttons. Buddy looked at me with his big blue eyes and a big 'smile'. His face is the white face in wheel in this photo. Josie is in wheel with him.
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