Training Tips For Mushing Your Pet Dog

Mushing Your Pet Dog With The Help Of Lynn Orbison

Lynn Orbison is a training addict. She is a lifetime member of the Alaska Dog Mushers Association and lives in Two Rivers, Alaska where she can train out of her house on the best gee-haw trails in the world!

Lynn was mentored by Kathy Frost and Lloyd Lowry and is a sprint racing junky. She is working to subdue her need for speed by training shelter dogs and has discovered that the joy of training is just as good without the white-knuckle adrenaline rush that comes when driving competitive winning dogs. (The dogs seem to be happy as long as the person is...within limits.)

She is a living example of the motto: It's not the destination, it's the journey that matters. Oddly enough, it's taken her 20 years to realize that sprint mushers race on closed loop trails, and that if you have slow dogs you get to play longer.

She is willing and able coach humans too, and invites visitors to her recreational farm and kennel. She has several foster dogs in training and available for adoption.

Lynn has offered Alaskan Husky Behavior her expertise in mushing your pet dog.

Finally, no matter what kind of dog sport or exercise you choose to do with your dog the basics are the same. Good dog care is a priority for every musher (or soon to be musher.) Start putting your dog library together!

This is the one and only "beginning mushing" book out there. This is the book you read cover to cover before you hit the trail.

This Skijor book is for anyone who wants to teach their dog to pull (and the publisher just happens to have her picture at the top of this webpage!

This is a must read if you are going to mush with your dog. This is the book every musher owns.