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Road vs. sidewalk walking
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Renzo walks like an angel in a perfectly straight line when we're on a sidewalk. (He still pulls a tiny bit but is getting better.) BUT...if we go for a walk on a road he zig zags ALL over the place and is generally a maniac who doesn't listen and pulls like crazy. It's so odd how different he is!
Does anyone else deal with this?
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Re: Road vs. sidewalk walking
Yes, but add in barking.
Is it because of the cars or does he zig zags even if there aren't any cars? For us, it's a work in progress, but it's usually the cars that cause the problems, so when I see a car coming, I sit her down, tell her to wait, tell her leave it as the car comes up, and reward/treat if she leaves it or groan in fustration if she doesn't. I have her sit on the grass on the side of the sidewalk away from the car. You could also try luring her in a straight line with a treat as you walk. We've been using this to help with walking by people with noteable success.
Hmm, we haven't had that experience, but generally speaking, dogs are pretty poor at generalizing. Maybe you need to repeat your walk training on the road specifically, so he gets that your normal walking manners are still expected?
Silly, Renzo!
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He doesn't care about cars. And he barely even notices if we hold the yummiest treat in front of his nose. He becomes oblivious to the human holding his leash when on walks.
We do walk training on sidewalks, roads, paths, grassy fields etc. and he improves maaaaaaybe 1% every 6 months. It's frustrating. It's better than when we got him but he still has a long way to go.
He does the best on sidewalks though so we really try to let him know he is being awesome (minus some leash tugging.) I wonder if the "border" of the sidewalk heads him in the right direction...
I love the boy but oh man.....he is a tough little bugger on a leash.
Oh, that is frustrating! Hopefully the consistency of walk training will just click with him one day (soon)? My backup plan with G is to keep trying to train her not to pull at cars until she's too old to want to pull anyway, then declare victory and brilliant success.
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