Have you tried a halti????? I know its not as friendly a way as the methods described by Jules and Sonia, but I usually use the stopping method, but I have found the halti to be quite effective too....Danny doesn't wear it all the time, just now and again if he's been particularly bad at pulling at that time.
Oscar also pulls constantly but when he does decide to walk next to me (i have treats with and praise him when hes good) he keeps jumping up at me.
i give him a treat when he walks nicely but he jumps up more than stays down. what do i do?
he also gets distracted really easily and wont stay interested in the treat for long. do i need to get some mixed flavour ones?
thanx in advance.
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Emma, Jamie, James, Molly and Oscar xxx
The only time the halti is used on Millie and Doobs is when they go out together. They are excited and being together they egg each other on!!! This is usually only on the way out but on the way back they are much better so I don't need them - and Doobs is my top star now. All those months of him pulling and reducing me to tears sometimes - and now he is the best out of the 3! I love my Doobs...
Can i also suggest that you change the route you take on your walks too. If the same route or maybe just two routes are always taken to the place of excitment that is when they learn to start pulling. They then introduce it into other parts of their life when they are on a lead. Removing the first trigger tends to help things enormously.
Also hoodwink them! leave your house, walk round the block not once, but twice, walk towards the park but then vear off and go round a couple of cul de sacs, then walk home. Don't by any means, when trying to help with pulling, every day end up at somewhere they free run or meet lots of dogs and havea nice time. Have them learh sometimes you go there but sometimes you don't! Makes them far more attentive to you and your decisions and far less likely to tow you fast in one direction.
I am a big halti fan, Brodie used to pull me over he pulled so hard, but since we indroduced the halti he is great, i can walk him and all the other together by myself, where as before the halti i used to make my OH take Brodie out.
Personally, I dont even attempt loose lead walking on the way to the park - whats the point? There are too many opportunities for your dog to get it wrong.
When I have had young dogs, and even now to be honest I always drive to a place to walk the dogs - rarely do I lead walk them to reach an off lead walk. When we are out and they have had an off lead play then I will clip the lead on for a short training period, this way they have got over the initial excitement of being out on a walk and they will be more inclined to concentrate.
If I do lead walk them, then Izzie who is a terribly puller wears a easy walk harness on the way to the park, but on the way back once she has had a nice run she walks home on her nice flat collar and lead.
I try whenever doing any training with my dogs to ensure that they always get things right and try to never allow them to make mistakes - allowing them to pull even once isnt ideal.
Think I might give the turning round approach a go...I have tried the stopping but it's not that effective....
I took mine up to a local training academy this afternoon I didn't want to go back to Halti's and for most things the girls are great - but buggars on the lead at times.
The trainer used the 'turn' technique and within minutes, both girls were walking like Angels once I learnt to relax, it worked quite well, I just have to carry that through outside the academy now - and next chance I get, Martin is going for training too - when you are in that environment you do get an inkling that it was ME at fault rather than the dogs
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