Leash Training – Leash Training Guide

By Danny Iskandar

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New dog owners usually look down upon the dog leash training. They feel that leash training is unimportant training to be done early, it can wait after other training.

But if your dog is a big size breed and might weigh about 50 pounds or more, you’ll find that leash training is very important one and need to be done as early as possible when the dog still young puppy. Just imagine when you walk with your dog that never has leash training before. Then something is attracting him and the dog start to drag you around to chase that thing, while your power is not enough to stop him and the dog will not stop when you pull the leash. This dog walk time will become nightmare for you right?

To complete this leash training first you need to get your dog used to wear the collar and leash together and feel comfortable with it, this session is fairly quick and simple. Next step is to train the dog to stay at the same side of you when walking with you and behave well, follow the command that been given like stop, stay, sit, go potty and other commands. This training will take some time and need patience, there is no instance method for this, but you’ll get the great advantages in the future with your dog.

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Many questions are frequently asked by new dog owners about this leash training. The most frequently asked question among them are about the length of dog leash, the material of dog leash are made of, type of dog leash and how to stop the dog pulling the leash.

There are many different method of leash training used by dog owners or trainers out there. I believe that every way of leash training and also other type of dog training has their own advantages and disadvantages. So you can follow or mix the dog leash training method with your own for the best result, choose the best leash training method that fit your condition. Just remember that negative dog leash training like punishing or torturing your dog is highly discouraged and won’t make your dog understand your purpose, at worst condition they’ll fear of you.

From my research many dog trainers and owners agree the length of the leash should be no more than 6 feet. Whether it is puppy or adult dog, 6 feet leash should be enough for the dog to move around sniffing and exploring the area around dog walking way. This leash length also fit for you to take control of the dog movement and pull the leash if your dog start chasing something and make him stop.

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There are two popular materials for dog leash training. Nylon dog leashes and leather dog leashes. Nylon dog leashes are easy to wash and have many kind of colour design, the disadvantages of this nylon leashes are it can make your hand burned when the dog is strongly pull the leash. For leather dog leash it will last for quite long time and very strong, easy to clean, more elegant and look great. With this leather dog leashes you can hold and control your dog more firmly and your grip won’t get slip when the dog pull the leash.

Hope this guide can help you, meet you at next learning.

Check my other guide : leather dog collars, bark-collars, dog-leashes

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.