Some more help please guys

[fieldwanderer]

Right, daisy (1yr old springer) is coming

on leaps and bounds lately and I'm working

from my trusty book but we've got a few

issues that aren't covered in the book so

a little help would be much appreciated;

 

pulling on the lead's a real problem, it's a

bad habbit now and I'm struggling to make

any progress with it. Anyone got a surefire

way to stop this?

 

Next might solve the above; I'm a rifle shooter

mostly so having daisy walk quietly beside me

at all times (unless told otherwise) would make

for a much stealthier approach, can anyone

tell me how to get her to walk beside me without

a lead and without running off to do her own thing please?

 

Stop/drop; if I give the sit or drop command when she's

more than a couple of metres away, daisy comes

to me then sits; how do I get her to do it wherever

she is I.e. Stop! On the spot, no matter what?

[fortune82]

Im no expert by any means. I have a 1 year old cocker and have got him walking to heel well (until yesterday!) using treats. I let him see a treat in my hand, say heel, he comes in beside me. I then walk abot ten metres and drop the treat for him to catch. I can walk for hundreds of metres using this technique until he decided to run off yesterday!

[fieldwanderer]

Im no expert by any means. I have a 1 year old cocker and have got him walking to heel well (until yesterday!) using treats. I let him see a treat in my hand, say heel, he comes in beside me. I then walk abot ten metres and drop the treat for him to catch. I can walk for hundreds of metres using this technique until he decided to run off yesterday!

 

 

Might be worth a try, she's never seemed

all that bothered by treats to be honest though.

[jimmyb79]

I've had problems with my lab with walking to heel. The best method I have found to break the pulling is as follows:

 

Sit the dog up on the lead next to you. Take one step across the front of the dog and use whatever heel command you use. If the dog pulls, sit him up again, give a bit of praise and try to settle the dog. Keep repeating until you can take two steps, then three and the ultimate aim being of course where you can walk in a straight line without pulling. Start just by walking across the dog so you're walking in squares.

If that can be achieved, then drop the lead, keeping the same principles going. If it slips back into old habits, go back a step. Eventually, you'll hopefully be able to take the lead off and achieve the right result, but it can take time. It took about 10 sessions to get my dog heeling on the lead, but we're not ready to take the lead off completely.

 

Good luck!

[pigeon toes]

I cured my cocker from pulling by simply holding my thumb stick accross the front of her while walking.This does not give her the scope to push ahead.When cured of pulling on the lead I then progressed to staying to heel off the lead.I walk and then stop,then walk and turn in a different direction and so on making sure the dog is focused on me and watching and following my every move.Dont do it for too long though or the dog will get bored and switch off.Treats work but at some stage you have to wean them off them,better that they want to do it for you and not the treats.Stick at it with loads of patience because when they have cracked it you have that close control you are looking for.