My 6 month old Meg doesn’t pull hard on her lead but takes the lead to full length and won’t walk near my legs. As soon as lead is tight I stop and Meg walks straight back and walks round behind me and stands perfectly at my side. I wait a few seconds and start off again and it’s straight back to tight lead. I walk her on lead and collar as I’m not a harness fan (sorry for all those of you that are!). She ever pulls hard and with everything else she is ok. She sits when cars go past, and down the fields, her recall is great. If I could just get her to walk by my legs with no tension on the lead it’d be great. We have been like this for a couple of months and she doesn’t seem to be improving. I don’t really like head collars or halti either as I think they are more for dogs that are dislocating their ‘human parents’ shoulders with their pulling. Thanks for any advice
Hi Sue, welcome to the forum I'm a little late to this post, so I don't know if this is a problem you're still having, but Pippa has written a guide to loose lease training on our main site. It sounds like, by stopping and starting in the same direction, Meg is still finding some reward in pulling forwards. She got where she was headed in the end, which is what mattered to her, and she doesn't really understand how the interruptions on the way relate to her behavior. In Pippa's method, she explains how changing directions will help overcome this. Good luck and let us know how you get on!
