My dog is better off lead than on. How do we sort this out?
💯 start indoors. There’s a BIG difference for dogs between indoors and outdoors. It’s the levels in between that you want to tackle before working outside successfully.
Walk indoors with a leash and touch the doorknob, wait for your dog to give you his attention, then reward him and walk to the kitchen. Repeat repeat repeat.
Then all that’s left to do is go the levels:
- Door knob
- Door unlocks
- Door opens 5mm/closes
- Door opens 10mm and so on
- Once you’ve taken steps out, take steps in, and out and back in etc.
Your pup will learn that the walk is now and where or what you’re doing, but rather HOW you take each step together, how it feels and WHEN you decide to go for the next step (not because you have to, but because it feels good and right, to you both)