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Sep 17, 2009 
Dog Leashes – How to Train Your Dog to Wear Dog Leashes
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As a dog lover you will certainly want to take the dog outside for little walk with you around your neighborhood. Imagine that you are having an obedient dog that will walk beside you naturally and happily without pulling you to move forward faster, will stop whenever you want to stop and go to every direction you direct him without any fight back from the dog.
Dog leashes training probably the most excited training that dog owner wish to train the dog as soon as possible. Without this dog leashes training, you will not be able to take your dog out for walk. You don’t want your dog dragging you when he is chasing other animal such squirrel or car that cross in front of him, Right? Actually this dog leashes training is not so difficult to train as long as you are consistent with the training progress and know how to do it.
You can start the dog leashes training since they still puppy. Begin with attach the collar around dog’s or puppy’s neck and give some time for the dog or puppy to get used to with the collar around the neck. For the first time using the collar the dog or puppy will do everything he can to remove the collar from his neck. Dog or puppy will try to scratch, roll around, whining and maybe do little barking to let us know that he doesn’t like it.
As you are watching the dog painfully try to remove the collar, you will fell sympathy and try to remove it. DON’T!! You will make the dog leashes training failed on the second you remove it. You need not to worry because the collar will not hurt your puppy anyway.
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After puppy or dog get used to with the collar and feel comfortable with the collar attached on his neck, you can remove the collar for a short while. You maybe ask why?? The purpose is to let the dog or puppy learn that the collar can’t get off no matter how hard he tries so better received it and the collar is not permanently attached to his neck. Remember to adjust the collar regularly because puppy grow up in size and he can get chocked if the collar to tight.
After collar session it is time to attach the dog leashes. Same method as the collar, let dog or puppy get used to it before come to next step. But this time you need to watch the dog or puppy cause sometime the leashes got stuck to something around the yard or house that can chocked the dog or puppy to death.
Next step take him for walk at your yard at first. Bring some treats to reward the dog or puppy for good response. Choose which sides you want your dog to walk by, in traditional dog walk by our left side. When he stand and waiting by your side, reward him on the same side you want him to be, don’t change the side which will make the dog confused where he should be standing and walk beside you.
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Try to walk randomly on the yard. If the dog tries to wander around with intention to pull you, stop walking and call him back to your side and pull the leashes if needed. If he returns and stand by your side you can reward him. So the dog or puppy will learn that if he walks by your side yummy treats are waiting.
Reward the dog every couple steps you both made successfully together. Try to stop and turning around and train the dog to follow your direction, you need to make the dog know that you are in control and he needs to respect you as the leader.
I think that if you start when he is still a puppy, then it is much easier to train him to wear the collar and associating the walks with wearing a collar will be a much more pleasant experience for your puppy. Putting a collar on an adult dog that never wore one can be more of a challenge. You can also find some dog training articles on our dog blog.
Some people feel those pointy chocker collars do not work but they do. The wrong side of it is the people that are harmful with them. **I just make it so that the dog somewhat pokes themselves than they learn fast. Ive seen people yank on them though.. great write up though
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