Leash Training Your Dog Part 1 Using a Long Line and Treats – Dog Training Video
[Music] [Applause] so today we want to talk about how to get your dog to walk on a leash really nicely now Maya is a crazy dog with a lot of Drive and she usually doesn’t walk well on a leash unless it’s in a competition or in a focused type heeling so we didn’t talk about that and your dog probably won’t have as much Drive as she has but let’s just talk about so most people will take and start walking their dog and start pulling them along and then the dog will pull them and then they’ll pull back and will pull again and the dog although kind of acquiescing to what I want doesn’t really do what I want on her own so she’s always waiting for me to do this I’m always giving her pressure on the leash in order to get her to come along so I’m just gonna walk a little bit and you’ll see see oh she’s getting crazy with the leash so now I’ve got a conflict with her well I’ve got to get her and let go of the leash hey let go oh and I’m trying to walk and she’s in this crazy Drive now so that’s not what I want my walk to look like with her so to start with we don’t want to start her on a short leash we want to start with what we call a long line so this is an old old long run obviously had a lot of use and we’re going to start Maya on this so we’re going to do is this can be done on a regular choke chain it can be done on the martingale which we’ll talk about in a minute and all we’re gonna do is unhook this house good and we’re not gonna use that and all I’m gonna do is give my all the room she wants here house and walk and she can carry this and do whatever because I’m not gonna fight her on it and once it becomes uninteresting yes good girl Maya I’m gonna give her a treat so basic long line work is just letting her be at the end of this leash wherever that might be and I’m going to do this for a long period of time and when she gets to the end of the leash I give her a gentle correction I turn I give her all this freedom I bought her a 15 foot leash I’m willing to use of the 15 foot leash and when I turn and she doesn’t clear she comes good girl good girl and then I turn and she goes that way I go the other way when she goes that way I go this way but I don’t say anything at this point I’m just disappearing from her sight so if I want to go I go and if she gets checked out starts going in another direction which she will hear as she gets excited to go this way I’m going to start to take away a little bit of the long line and I’m going to start to turn sooner and as I turn she’s starting to pay more and more attention to me as you can see now because I’ve given her the end of the leash I’m not forcing her when I when I move she moves and by not engaging her when she’s trying to bite on this it becomes uninteresting if I just give that to her there’s no game now so when she lets go of that good girl she’s got a reward but yes but if I let her grab this here and so I’m gonna set her up for failure here and I’m gonna let her bite this and I’m gonna say no no now she let go but more than likely she’s going to start rien gauging this toy and I’m fighting her now so for me to get her to let go here doesn’t make sense but if I just give it to her it’s uninteresting I’m not going to tug with her see let’s go yes and she gets paid for letting go so now I’ve got her at the end of let’s say a 15 foot leash so what I’ll do from here is I’ll come down maybe three feet and work with her at the end of let’s say five feet the end of a ten foot leash and I’ll do the exact same thing I’ll take off and when she gets near I disappear she goes there I make 180s I make another 180 and the more I disappear from my dog and occasionally give her a pop on the leash the more interesting I become because she’s next to me and I can walk and walk and walk and if I stop she stops I’ll pay her for that a quick note on giving your dog treats you’ll notice a lot of people when they give their dogs treats they take the tree from here and they give the dog the treat here and you see what that does with the dog it makes her do what here you go it makes her get in front of you so now if I try to walk I’m having to push her out of the way with my knees instead you can have your treats on the right side but when you pay your dog pay them from the left which keeps her in this position it keeps her to the left good now in some styles of obedience training they’ll actually lure the dog to stay on this side by using a Treat in the hand so I’m going to cup the Treat in the hand this way and it’s about a one-inch piece of jerky I’m going to cup it here and I’m gonna let her nibble it you can see she’s nibbling it here and I’m gonna just start walking and that puts her in a really nice position to stay right next to me and as long as I cup my hand this way she can just nibble nibble nibble nibble right she nibbles I take it away she nibbles I take it away she nibbles I walk right and I keep her right next to me and I stop she stops remember this hand always stays attached to your hip if you start doing this she’s going to start walking there good girl so now you can see in a matter of just a few minutes we got her walking next to us with a long line and now with a treat so here she’s going to keep walking walking walking I stop she stops I walk she walks good girl that’s how good girl Oh
