A. Howle was a tough local competitor in the game many years ago. We grew up together and shared some dogs together. He quit after he lost his teenage son to a bad car accident. A.H. kept a low profile and never cared for reporting anything.

His family had a large farm with a surrounding outer dirt road that ran around the whole farm. A.H. set up a walking/pulling a chain stations around that road. Dog walked for so long from one station then pulled a chain to next station and so on. The chain pulling stations were of a shorter distance than the walking/jogging stations. On alternate days or when he deemed it was time to back off the chain pulling. Had a hook up system to a large golf cart and just dog trotted and loped the dog between those same spaced out stations. For a back up for bad weather days he used a large low running to the ground round table.

Never told or let anyone see how he fed or exactly how he worked each dog. Was his business anyway. All his dogs were in great shape and were strong. Beat two good dog men with the Face bitch,whom I later owned. His work keep was about as simple as it gets.

Still takes a lot of time and a will to get out there and work the dog. There are no short cuts in Pro boxing and none in a dog pulling event. It is time consuming and hard work. If you do it right you will be in pretty good shape yourself.

Myself and wife worked the Mr. Clean dog for R. Braddock. I would get up early before work and walk the dog 2 1/2 miles out and back in. Later in early evening my wife would do the same. When I got in from work would do another walk broken up with fast trotting and loping on my round table. My round table at that time was a 16 footer. When we had finished the keep. Both had lost a bunch of weight and felt pretty darn good our selves. LOL