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Training your dog to walk with a lead.
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By Pat
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Training your dog to walk with a lead.
Training a dog to walk with you when it is on a lead should be easy enough. If the dog can walk and you can walk, what more would you ask for?
The issue with training a dog on a lead is often that the dog wants to be in charge. Of course. The dog wants to lead, even if you think you are in control. How can you get such a dog to understand what you need it to do?
Although I am not an expert dog trainer, here is something I have learned. This has worked for many dogs our family has helped train, so it might work for you.
A dog must know you are in control. When a dog is walking with you and begins to pull on the lead, dragging you like a rag doll down the street, stop! Pull the dog in another direction. Don't allow the dog to pull you for even a minute. You must show you are in control at all times. Even one day of allowing a dog to pull yo
u can undo your hard work.
Dogs appreciate their master as leader of the pack. Even if your pack is just you and one dog, you must be the boss. Helping the dog understand it is not okay to pull you is the beginning of better walks, to say the least.
If your dog is pulling, and not happy about you trying to take it in another direction, here is another thing that may work. Stop as soon as the dog pulls. Stand in place, and tell the dog to sit. When it sits, pat the dog's head, tell it 'good dog' and return to walking, with you in control.
This may take you several times over a few days to get the dog to agree with your way of doing things, but it will work. Dogs love to have praise from their owner, and will do what it takes to hear your happy tone of voice. Don't become frutrated if the dog does not get this the first day. Be patient, and persistent, and you will have many happy walks with your dog.
The issue with training a dog on a lead is often that the dog wants to be in charge. Of course. The dog wants to lead, even if you think you are in control. How can you get such a dog to understand what you need it to do?
Although I am not an expert dog trainer, here is something I have learned. This has worked for many dogs our family has helped train, so it might work for you.
A dog must know you are in control. When a dog is walking with you and begins to pull on the lead, dragging you like a rag doll down the street, stop! Pull the dog in another direction. Don't allow the dog to pull you for even a minute. You must show you are in control at all times. Even one day of allowing a dog to pull yo
Dogs appreciate their master as leader of the pack. Even if your pack is just you and one dog, you must be the boss. Helping the dog understand it is not okay to pull you is the beginning of better walks, to say the least.
If your dog is pulling, and not happy about you trying to take it in another direction, here is another thing that may work. Stop as soon as the dog pulls. Stand in place, and tell the dog to sit. When it sits, pat the dog's head, tell it 'good dog' and return to walking, with you in control.
This may take you several times over a few days to get the dog to agree with your way of doing things, but it will work. Dogs love to have praise from their owner, and will do what it takes to hear your happy tone of voice. Don't become frutrated if the dog does not get this the first day. Be patient, and persistent, and you will have many happy walks with your dog.
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