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A Nunavik Adventure
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Tip for the Trail: Keep it Clean
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Behavior Notebook: Displacement, Discipline, Diversion, Disarming
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Keep it Clean
by Mark Hamilton
Morning temperatures here in Connecticut are getting low enough to allow us to again work our dogs in harness. I always start our running season at the washing machine. All our harnesses and tug lines get a bath with laundry detergent (no bleach) and the harnesses get tumbled dried. It's got nothing to do with appearance, and only a little to do with the way they usually smell after a number of months in storage.
Dirt particles embedded into fabric are abrasive and cut the material apart from the inside. Washing at the beginning of the season, and again as needed preserves the harnesses and tug lines strength and their useful life.
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