A World Champion sled-dog racer and veterinarian discusses how vital, and fun, conditioning is for your bird dog. - Alaska 
Conditioning Tips from a Sled-Dog Champion
In the sporting-dog world, there are athletes…and then there are athletes.
At the top of the list among dogs whose names deserve to be offset in italics are sled dogs, which may run hundreds of miles over the course of a single race. At full speed. While pulling a sled with a full-grown man standing on it.
But they don’t do that on grit and willpower alone. They need to be conditioned to develop the extreme endurance mandated by the sport. I wanted to find out how a sled-dog conditioning program stacked up to a serious bird hunter’s conditioning. So, I found two guys who fit those descriptions: Dr. Arleigh Reynolds who resides in Alaska...and me. Reynolds is a research scientist for the Purina company, a veterinarian, and a sled-dog racer with back-to-back world championships (2013 and 2014).
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