Two hands on the lead, one shoulder aching, and a walk you’ve quietly stopped enjoying. You’ve tried the harness, the halti, and three different leads — because everyone told you it was the kit. It was never the kit.
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Three things are usually running at once, and dominance isn’t one of them.
He pulls, and he gets there faster — the smell, the park, the other dog. The lead has taught him that pulling is how walking works.
Walking beside a human at human pace is not natural to any dog. A loose lead is a trained place to be — and it has to be worth being in.
If the walk is the only outlet the dog gets, he arrives at the front door already over threshold. Some of the pulling is just pressure looking for somewhere to go.
The order matters more than the technique — and your half of the lead changes as much as the dog’s.
Where it starts, where it spikes, what your hands do. Half of what the lead is saying is coming from your end, and nobody has ever shown you that.
From day one, a tight lead never gets anyone anywhere. Not punishment — just the end of the deal that built the habit.
A place beside you that gets paid — properly, and often. The dog learns the loose lead is where the good things happen.
Past the pull points, out the front door, towards the park. Distance, duration, distraction — in that order.
To you, and then to the rest of the house. It isn’t fixed until the person with the weakest grip can walk him.
One named problem, six to eight weeks, with the outcome written down before we start. Pulling on its own is a Fix.
When the pulling comes with lunging and barking at other dogs, it’s a reactivity problem wearing a lead problem’s coat — and it needs the longer runway.
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