Leash Walking CONNECTED

If loose leash walking was as simple to teach as stopping when your dog pulls and moving when your dog is next to you… most people would succeed with training their dogs to walk on a loose leash. For some dogs it is as easy as this, while for others it’s not. I believe the main reason people struggle with loose leash walking is that the pulling is the symptom of another problem, so no matter how hard you work at it the pulling keeps coming back. The main problem that I believe to be the cause of pulling is that the dog is over excited or stressed when out and about. This 6 week intensive program focuses on exercises that are designed to not only teach your dog to walk next to you, but also how to practice impulse control and calm down in order to get to the root of the leash walking problem. Each week you will be working on a variety of exercises ranging from working on a “Settle”, relationship building exercises like the “Recall” and “Attention noise”, “Leave it” exercises, and building the concept of walking at your side. Because the training is conducted with no forms of physical or psychological intimidation, all these exercises benefit any behavior modification program. After 18 years of helping others with their dogs who pull on leash, I have refined this 6 week program to focus on loose leash walking. Some of the techniques I use are based on the teachings I learned from my most wonderful mentor Kyle Rayon over 20 years ago, yet have withstood the test of time working with thousands of dogs.