Leash walking with your dog
Walking with your dog should be fun and good exercise not a never ending battle... I thought that my Labrador Gephetto can pull...until I got Huskies. They are bred to pull and walking slow and next to you is just not something they think is fun. And dogs are all about fun! There is no law that stipulates that your dog should walk on your left. So if you walk more then one dog it could be better letting them walk in front of you? Which ever way you choose the method stays the same... If he pulls you stop! No dog wants to stop; they usually have much more energy then us so they want to go forward. Stopping is like punishment. The moment your dog is back into position next to you or where ever you want him you can go forward. Going forward is the reward in itself. Walking next to you can be praised as well. When we take the dogs out on a leash I like to let them just be dogs for some of the time to. I let them sniff around and pull a little. On the way back home I let them walk beside me again so that they know what the desired cue is. But they also get to have fun.
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