{"id":5695,"date":"2021-12-11T20:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T20:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/?page_id=5695"},"modified":"2021-12-12T21:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T21:22:02","slug":"llw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/?page_id=5695","title":{"rendered":"Loose Leash Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loose Leash Walking is difficult for dogs. Consider that DOGS, of their own accord:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>rarely walk in a straight line for long<\/li>\r\n<li>change gait and frequently stop and start<\/li>\r\n<li>generally ambulate faster than humans<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>This makes walking &#8220;at the glacial pace of death&#8221; next to us as we head down the sidewalk in a straight line maintaining a consistent gait, extremely difficult for dogs.<\/p>\r\n<p>As you can imagine, it requires a lot of impulse control on the part of the dog and thus, we need to teach them what we&#8217;d like them to do instead of the crazy walk they will otherwise offer!<\/p>\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s an overview:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>create a history of reinforcement on one side of your body; be consistent as to which side (choose left if it doesn&#8217;t matter to you particularly)<\/li>\r\n<li>practice off the leash at first, this way you don&#8217;t use the leash as a steering wheel and the dog doesn&#8217;t rehearse pulling while you&#8217;re learning to train<\/li>\r\n<li>i like to practice &#8220;sit to sit&#8221; by reinforcing sit by my side, then taking a few steps, then sitting again<\/li>\r\n<li>reposition your puppy if they get out of position<\/li>\r\n<li>practice turns a lot! this is when puppy tends to &#8216;loose you&#8217; and wander off<\/li>\r\n<li>an anti-pull harness, such as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SENSE-ation-No-Pull-Dog-Harness-Green\/dp\/B008PDCLM4\/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=1P884UQ6UXNT8&amp;keywords=sensation+harness+for+dogs&amp;qid=1639256028&amp;sprefix=sensation+harness%2Caps%2C524&amp;sr=8-2-spons&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A1ZOLBWMWHY5GG&amp;spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzQVZOUUpZTVFGR0NEJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNzM1NjY3MVdLUjlZNVFINE9GNyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwOTE3ODA4MU42V0dYNkY1MkRITCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=\">sensation harness<\/a> can help reduce the degree of pulling while puppy is learning to keep the leash loose<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Here are a few videos to help:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/523065262\/2ded86add3\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/523065262\/2ded86add3<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/520341794\/18ae53dd5d\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/520341794\/18ae53dd5d<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/518854095\/f99bde87f6\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/518854095\/f99bde87f6<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Teaching puppy to meet people without jumping up.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/518886954\/0efcc212a9\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/518886954\/0efcc212a9<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loose Leash Walking is difficult for dogs. Consider that DOGS, of their own accord: rarely walk in a straight line for long change gait and frequently stop and start generally ambulate faster than humans This makes walking &#8220;at the glacial pace of death&#8221; next to us as we head down the sidewalk in a straight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/?page_id=5695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loose Leash Walking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5701,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5695","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5695\/revisions\/5709"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velvetswissys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}