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Loose leash walking is IMPOSSIBLE to teach.
in Pets
Ugh. Renzo just DOES NOT UNDERSTAND loose leash walking! I feel like I have tried everything!
I know he is smart enough to figure it out, he just doesn't seem to care.
Anyone else with an "impossible" case??
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Re: Loose leash walking is IMPOSSIBLE to teach.
Yes. I think it is the hardest thing to train ever.
Bella's fearfulness makes it even more fun!
We have 2 strong lab mixes and have had a lot of success with a front clip harness. We were introduced to them by a trainer who had originally suggested a halti for Mendel (he never got used to it). The front clip harness turns the dog to the side every time they pull too far ahead or if you want to correct a behavior.
They are only about $15 and take just as long to put on/take off as a leash does (we just keep the leash clipped to the harness and then slip the harness over their heads and use the clip that is under the belly).
I think its the same brand that makes the gentle leader/halti...they are located on the leash aisle at petsmart/petco
LLW is hard. It took me 4 dogs and working for a trainer to finally get my technique down. Unfortunately, after years of pulling....the dogs I have the hardest time with....mine. But damn if I can get a foster walking nicely in a week.
Our technique is pretty unusual. We do a lot of inside turns (doing a 180 turn into the dog), and they learn very quickly to back out of our way because we will walk into them if they dont. Once they get that, then we start walking, and if the dog tries to get ahead of us, we simply do an inside turn to push them back. My boss once accidentally got a dog walking nicely in record time because she started training, then got a very frustrating phone call and started pacing back and forth, forgetting she still had a dog. Dog ended up LLW perfectly after 30 min because she didn't have a choice.
Have you seen my monkey?
HA! That's great.
Quincy and Dexter, new BFFs
I used to be kris216.
We picked one of those up the day we adopted him and it does diddly squat. :-( I think they work for a majority of dogs....just not Renzo. Our lab Boston is an angel in one!! :-)
Hah, that's awesome.
I've tried doing the 180 turn into the dog and he is oblivious. He'll look for a nanosecond at what is running into him and then just pull the other way.
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Someone told me that GSPs are especially hard to LLW because in the field they are trained to GO and be somewhat independent only looking back to you when they are unsure what to do and need a command. I think that is the perfect assessment. Except Renzo never looks to me for a command because his "job" is to pull as hard as he can to smell things and find squirrels.
I LOOOOOOOOOVE him but HAAAAAAATE walking him.
Haha, yeah, I've tried doing the 180 thing when he starts to pull, but he is never NOT pulling so I make it one step, turn, one step, turn.....rinse and repeat. We get NOWHERE and he learns nothing. Uuuuugh.
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My coworker suggested working on leash manners in the living room and then the backyard and then the public sidewalk. I've been trying that but the SECOND he gets out of the house all bets are off and he forgets everything. He is an angel in the house and does everything perfectly.
I GIVE UP!
Our trainer suggested this for us. In the house, she's great. In class, she's FANTASTIC. Around the block? She's kind of a lunatic. We absolutely have to use a prong collar to have some sort of structure. It's seriously frustrating. Sometimes I think the trainer doesn't believe us when we say she pulls outside of class because she's so great inside of class!
Nital, I would like you to come train this for me, especially in fun places like a show site. Pretty please, you know you want to come to Maryland.
My newest solution - jog because he never pulls then so we have a great time and he keeps me going, although I freaking hate running.
Heh. If it weren't for this pesky job and this kid...I'd love to be a traveling pestle trainer/pet sitter. How fun would that be? Maryland sounds awesome since it will soon be a thousand degrees here. And seafood in Phoenix? I dont think so.
Have you seen my monkey?
Unfortunately he doesn't give two hoots about treats when we're not in the house. It's like he is trying to ignore us when we're outside. I'll try to get him to look at me and he'll look everywhere else but at me. It's super frustrating.
So....when we went on our walk last night DH walked him because I just didn't want to deal with him! :-(