Sorry, on re-reading it you seem to have misconstrued what I said, I merely stated that a single dog (i.e. one dog in my previous post) can not run in the Open class unless it is of Freight type

Yes, that is definately a good idea We have a permit for our local training ground (I wish it was only £5 per month and that you could choose the months to have the permit for though )

If you do go down that route then you also need third party liability insurance Our training ground requires 2 million cover however I know some areas have asked for 5 million (although this is unecessary).

[QUOTE=Greyhawk;1639891]This is not strictly accurate - it is the fact that you are using a dog to pull you that is against the law in public places, not the mode of transport they pull you on.

"Sorry always thought the draught law refers to dogs pulling carriages, carts, trolleys, barrows etc on a public highway NOT a mountain bike or scooter on private land, forestry commision land or bridleways? These have not been included in the ammendment, i know this because i have friends with Bernese Mountain Dogs and somebody at a local fete approached them about it being illegal and cruel to use a cart, they were corrected!"

"Nice of you to give Ranger a good start, its obviously paid off seeing as he is a very fast malamute indeed!"

Try and get to the funday Lupus, as i said you cannot take your dogs but then its good to be able to concentrate without worrying and you can ask lots of questions too, most people are very very helpful and if you ask nicely some folk will let you take some pictures probably so you can get an idea of what the equipment looks like, how to put it together and what different people use. Even if you never compete it doesnt matter, my dogs have done recreational classes at quite a few of the events but its all over far too quickly as we usually run 5 miles plus. I am going (hopefully when i sort my van!) to scotland at the end of the month to a rally in culbin forest which is 3 x 9 mile stages this is probably a long way off for you but let me tell you there is no greater feeling than being out in the forest, with your dogs, just trotting along, beautiful scenery its great....i feel sorry for the big sibe teams cos they go so fast they never get to see much

Private land (which is what Forestry commision land is) has always been fine with the permission of the landowner It is only on public land where it could be an issue, what I don't want is for people to buy a scooter on the assumption that they can use it whenever and where ever they like.

I never said they were the only organiser in Scotland I know the NSDSC support events and were intending to hold their own three events this year however the first two were cancelled, did the third ever go ahead? (As I have mentioned before, Scotland is the opposite end of the country to both me and the OP so I only take a passing interest in their rules/regs/events ).

Ah right, sorry, normally a 'trek' is a long distance event where by you run the dogs in harness (such as the Aviemore trek and the one AMWA ran at Salisbury earlier on this year). I simply didn't realise you were refering to a walk.

Yes I know about the event, I received a brochure In you original post you advised the OP to go and watch a few rallies so I merely mentioned that the rallies were now finished for this season. However as you say there are other fun events on that they can go and watch