How to Teach your Dog to Walk on Leash
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Let’s hear from Celeste and her dog Biscuit. My name is Celeste. My dog’s name is biscuit
She’s one year old and she is a Bernese Mountain dog
I’ve always thought that they’re the cutest dogs in the whole world my husband proposed to me on a
Bernese Mountain dog farm it was probably the best moment
I could ever imagine Biscuit’s very friendly and she loves other dogs
But sometimes that can be an issue when we’re trying to walk around the park or even down the street
She tends to pull really hard, and she’s a very strong big dog and sometimes I have issues keeping her under control
She’s very curious. This kid just really loves eating dirt
Zack, please help make walking more fun for biscuit and me alright biscuit our mission is clear
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And they’re usually really tasty the smell really has their attention for sure. I’m going to give her one
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Historically they’ve been used as draft animals to pull carts and often when a dog is bred for a physical trait like strength
It’s extra important to teach them good
Leash walking [habits] set aside time to work with your dog on leash training before it’s time to go somewhere
Preparation makes all of the difference before I get started with today’s lesson
I have to make sure that I can get biscuits attention on me in this outdoor
Distracting environment. She’s great with [sit]. That’s a good sign. Look at me. Yes good
Now can I get her to look at me [without] a treat in my hand let’s find out?
Look at me. Oh she’s taller, and we’re right here on this pond. There’s birds everywhere
I think she’s doing exceptional so far look at me
It looks good check that means she’s able to focus on me
so that we can start to work on our training a
Huge part of having a dog that behaves well on leash is being able to get their attention on you when they’re distracted and just
Being outside right now is enough to distract almost any dog if your dog is it yet reliably looking at you outside while around minor
distractions keep working on that first before moving on
I’ll have a video in the description that will help you since look at me look so good
I want to see if we can now do that while moving around again in an outdoor environment. That’s super key biscuit
Look at me come here
Good
Good job [nice] work up here. Oh
There’s [birds] up here. Look at me so far
She’s reacting very intelligently she’s acknowledging the distractions, but it’s not throwing her off so much look at this no tension on the leash
So far. This is exactly where you want to be in other words
You don’t want to wait for your dog to start pulling on the leash
[to] then correct them and scold them for pulling it’s so much better to motivate them to want to walk nicely rather than using special
tools like choke , prong or electric collars
teaching your dog to think from the inside out will always be far more potent and in the beginning stages of teaching your dog to
walk nice on Leash
It’s super important to use lots of treats because they give you that opportunity to build
Communication with your dogs those treats are what keep them focused on you and over time as they become more used to walking with you
In distracting environments you won’t need the treats anywhere near as much if at all . There she is acknowledging a bird
Up here look at me good. So she acknowledged the bird. I was able to get her attention on me so far
It’s been smooth [sailing] with biscuit, but now let’s do something that resembles more of a real world walk
I’m going to attempt [to] walk all the way from down there back here and hopefully biscuit will comply. Let’s see biscuit up
Yeah, yeah, good
[I] don’t know if you could see that her pace started to increase a bit
But I wanted to prevent her from pulling so I asked her to look at me and she did
Now celeste says that biscuit isn’t exactly reliable when she encounters another dog on a walk today
I’ve got my dog trainer friend
Angie and her dog Sonny here to provide a more
significant
Distraction for biscuit of course if you don’t have a friend with a dog to help you out it might be more practical to train
In a park where [people] might be walking their dogs or even outside the perimeter of a fence dog park and now she sees her, look
At that that’s interesting let’s see how biscuit does when she’s a little bit closer to Sonny now
We’re getting tension on the leash right now. She’s pulling so much. [I] can’t get her attention on me over here
Hey pay attention to me. We have a very odd-looking duck. She’s focused on right now too .
Come on, girl. Let’s go over here
I’m not having much success
here that means I need to probably move back a little bit farther if your dog won’t look at you or
Sit when you ask them to that probably means you’re too close to something they’re distracted by so my goal
Now is to be able to get biscuit to pay attention me and the president of Sonny look at me fine great
I’m able to get her eyes on me about [ten] [twelve] feet between the two of us biscuit up here
Look at me sit
Yes, good work, so a little bit closer that time this is exciting
Let’s go over here, sit
Look at me great sit
Real tough war right here, but I think she might have it in her , will you sit ?
Yes, if you can get your dog to sit in the presence of something. They’re distracted by that probably means
They’re pretty receptive to listening to you and taking Direction if however
They won’t do something basic like a sit lie [down] or look at me
Well that probably means you’re not ready to work with them in that type of situation just yet
It would totally be fine to have them go and say hi to each other
But if you’re really walking your dog you don’t necessarily want to stop and have your dog read
Every dog plus that may condition then to just pull towards every dog they see [alright]
I’m ready to go on to the next step here things that [move] are very often more
Distracting to dogs and if we have sunny walk back and forth here it might be a little bit more
Challenging to get biscuit to pay attention to me let’s find out she’s not paying attention to me
Let me see if I put the [treat] [at] her nose be still not paying attention
If she’s very intrigued, but she is sitting so I’m actually still gonna reward because there’s some compliance going on over here
You can see that she starts to lunge [Toward] sunny. We don’t want that sit
Good
give me
Up here. Yes good job. Just a couple of feet away, and I’m able to get Biscuit’s attention on me
This is great. [how] about a lie down? Oh?
Even better and the reason I’m having her lie down here is just to demonstrate that she’s compliant in this distracting scenario
This is fantastic this way yes, oh excellent
Look at this all attention on me none on the other dog come here
Well not quite none, but that’s acceptable will you sit?
Will you look at me? I love it. Let’s find out how biscuit [reacts] when Sonny bark she’s definitely
Acknowledging the bark I see nothing wrong with that the most important thing
Is that she’s paying attention to me in the presence of a barking dog?
See that she barks and she immediately looked at me
I didn’t even have to ask her and that’s really what we’re working towards showing your dog what to do before?
They’re surprised by something is the ideal way to set them up for success
[click] thumbs up for biscuit isn’t she great [and] how about Sonny and Angie, [too]
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