If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Ace has been responding well to treats on our 20-minute walks. He will heel with his regular collar or with no leash as long as no other people or dogs are in sight. Of course, if he sees another dog, he wants to run and greet. He pulls, trying to get to the other dog, even with his pinch collar on. For the rest of the week, I am going to practice having Ace sit and stay at my side when we see other dogs. I will make him sit until his is calm enough to heel normally. He heels the best when he has something else to focus on such as wearing his backpack or carrying a stick. When Ace pulls, he responds well if I just stop. Then I do not move forward until he backs up and stands at my side. I’m sure I look like a compete idiot, especially walking a dog with a bright, red backpack. But that’s OK. I think it’s worth it if I eventually have a dog that walks better on a leash. Click here to see all my 30-day challenge posts. Related posts: 
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Fuzzy Logic on March 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am #
Very Good! These are all excellent things.. the other thing I’ve done to help dogs learn to walk nicely is to change direction when their nose gets too far ahead… and I say “Ut oh!” , pause and turn around.. give them a verbal “hey pay attention”.. I have to ask one of my dogs to sit in heel position when another dog is around.. she was charged three times by loose dogs as a puppy and doesn’t currently deal well.. but we are working on it. Fuzzy Logic’s last blog post..Weeee hooooooo!!!!! Post a comment
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