Cycling with a dog: what to look out for

Cycling with a dog keeps your owner, mistress and bello fit in the long run. But be careful: If you do not follow some tips beforehand, you will quickly come home with abrasions, but without a dog. Cycling with a dog: what to look out for - Photo: Shutterstock / gorillaimages

Cycling is especially fun when you can take your beloved four-legged friend with you. However, not all dogs are equally suitable for a bike tour together. So that everything goes smoothly and you both have fun cycling, the following tips will help you.

Requirements for cycling with the dog

Your best friend should be fully grown and healthy before riding a bike with him on a leash. The skeleton is only formed and hardened from the age of one and a half to two years. Previously, joint problems or injuries can occur if your four-legged friend overexerts himself physically during the growth phase.

Dogs that are too big or too small should avoid walking alongside while cycling, as the physical exertion would be too high for them too. Sick, old four-legged friends or dogs with joint problems are also not suitable companions when cycling.

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Tips for cycling with your dog

It is important that you do not take it too fast when cycling with a dog. Four-legged friends like to overestimate themselves and easily exert themselves when the journey becomes too fast. Even your best friend has to build up his condition with regular training. At the beginning, you should not simply cycle on it, but first get the dog used to the bike.

A tip: take the bike with you a few times every day and push it alongside. From time to time you can sit on it and let yourself roll a few meters. Even if this is tedious - this is the only way your four-legged journeyman gets used to the bike and its noises and can soon walk alongside you with regular practice.

Also choose a quiet place for your test routes so that traffic does not distract you or endanger you both. The safest way is for your four-legged friend to walk to the right of the bike. It is the best way to protect it. Should you still not be able to see a situation, you must get off and continue on foot.