Why the Jenny?

[Jon P. Lebron]

I have noticed that many say that the Jenny is the best piece of equipment for conditioning a dog. To those have used a Jenny I ask, personally why do you consider the jenny the best equipment for conditioning?

[TFX]

I don't know that the jenny is my "best" or favorite piece of training equipment, but I have had a few jennys over the years that I conditioned dogs. The dog runs a much more natural gait on a jenny than on a treadmill. I could also blend resistance work simultaneously with my sprint and pacing work on my jenny by dropping a drag chain.

My best piece of training equipment was always a pickup truck and a nice smooth dirt road. The best roads of all were the packed sand in the vineyards, but any dirt road will do. I have had cops roll up on me a few times while conditioning bulldogs in this manner and other than wondering what I was doing late at night in a field, I never got hassled about working the dog. My pat excuse was that I had a blown out knee and this was the only way to work my dog as hard as I did when I ran with him before, but I never had to use it.

[Steeldog]

Haha. Nice excuse.

I don't know that the jenny is my "best" or favorite piece of training equipment, but I have had a few jennys over the years that I conditioned dogs. The dog runs a much more natural gait on a jenny than on a treadmill. I could also blend resistance work simultaneously with my sprint and pacing work on my jenny by dropping a drag chain.

My best piece of training equipment was always a pickup truck and a nice smooth dirt road. The best roads of all were the packed sand in the vineyards, but any dirt road will do. I have had cops roll up on me a few times while conditioning bulldogs in this manner and other than wondering what I was doing late at night in a field, I never got hassled about working the dog. My pat excuse was that I had a blown out knee and this was the only way to work my dog as hard as I did when I ran with him before, but I never had to use it.

[TFX]

I even had a jenny setup out in the back of my work once upon a time at the end of a railhead, where I also kept a couple of dogs to condition.

[CRISIS]

hey TFX have you ever been up to sand creek rd. up in arbuckle??? i found it on google earth, looks like a great place to work dogs in that manner.......i wouldnt mind the hour 1/2 trip to try it out! lol

[TFX]

hey TFX have you ever been up to sand creek rd. up in arbuckle??? i found it on google earth, looks like a great place to work dogs in that manner.......i wouldnt mind the hour 1/2 trip to try it out! lol

Never been there, but Arbuckle is only about 45 minutes from your grandpa's place.

[CRISIS]

Never been there, but Arbuckle is only about 45 minutes from your grandpa's place.

oh...i didnt realize it was that close........thats my new house i was tellin you about...

[DOGGIN4LYFE]

i got a question i've always been around guys that use a mill. i would like to know what kind of prepping to the ground do you have to do before use even put your hound on a jenny for exercising.

[FrostyPaws]

I can tell you why the jenny is my favorite piece of equipment. My dogs simply work harder on the jenny than a mill. They get more of a workout running the jenny how they want than they ever could with me trying to coax them into working the mill how I like. It's safer for me to work them on the jenny than roadwork.

I've never had a dog that could work the mill with the same intensity and pace as they can the jenny.

[Jon P. Lebron]

Ok, do ya put any type of resistance other than a chain. I've seen some where the wooked up a house door side ways and another that had a tarp I guess for wind resistance once the dog runs.

FrostyPaws, how do you get your dogs to run the jenny better than a mill, curious because I've heard some say the contrary of what you just said, that it's hard to get a dog to run all out in a jenny compared to a mill. I have no experience with either a mill or a jenny.