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Teaching my dear pups to lead walk - update
Hi all, earlier in the year I posted about my proplem in teaching my dear but scatterbrained GSP/weimaraner pups to loose lead walk. I thought that an update might give hope to other dog owners with one arm longer than the other :-)
Basically we have 85% success!! I can now walk both dogs holding both leads in my left hand, they will wait while I unlock and open the car back and jump in. as I said earlier, the tactic of we are going nowhere till the lead is slack wasn't working for me as to them, going nowhere was as interesting as moving so they didn't care. I use the Cesar technique of giving the lead a sharpish jerk when either started to pull along with a verbal correction. The jerk is only enough to briefly tighten the collar (not check or combi, just an ordinary collar) against the neck - just an attention getter really. Obviously they do better after the run than before it, but even before it I have control of both of them which is amazing.
I still don't have the same control in a street situation but this is due to circumstances. We live a rural life so street walking has never been a priority, also family problems have meant that i couldn't put the time into street training that I would have liked to...as I said, its not an issue. they will walk calmly-ish on the lead past mares with suckling foals and the eternal grazing rabbits which is far more used to me as I live in the New Forest.
To those of you still struggling, don't give up, be firm, patient and loving and it WILL come!
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Basically we have 85% success!! I can now walk both dogs holding both leads in my left hand, they will wait while I unlock and open the car back and jump in. as I said earlier, the tactic of we are going nowhere till the lead is slack wasn't working for me as to them, going nowhere was as interesting as moving so they didn't care. I use the Cesar technique of giving the lead a sharpish jerk when either started to pull along with a verbal correction. The jerk is only enough to briefly tighten the collar (not check or combi, just an ordinary collar) against the neck - just an attention getter really. Obviously they do better after the run than before it, but even before it I have control of both of them which is amazing.
I still don't have the same control in a street situation but this is due to circumstances. We live a rural life so street walking has never been a priority, also family problems have meant that i couldn't put the time into street training that I would have liked to...as I said, its not an issue. they will walk calmly-ish on the lead past mares with suckling foals and the eternal grazing rabbits which is far more used to me as I live in the New Forest.
To those of you still struggling, don't give up, be firm, patient and loving and it WILL come!
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