I think the most important thing to note and to be said is that no piece of equipment

is going to teach your dog to keep the leash loose or teach your dog to pull on a leash

when we're out for a walk, right?

The equipment doesn't do that.

Only consequences can do that.

Oh!

Oh! consequences can do that.

Hey guys. Welcome to Drinking from the Toilet, the podcast for true training nerds.

If you're looking to combine the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy in real life, you've come to the right

place. I'm Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book,

awesome obedience, which you can pick up right now from clickertraining.com. This week, we are talking

about a topic that I get a ton of requests for.

It is hands down the most requested behavior of all time from pet clients. And it is a topic of

much debate in dog training circles. I'm talking, of course, about the holy grail of dog training,

loose leash walking. Everybody wants it. It's hard to train. Okay, so some people

will say they don't really want it or that it's just not a priority, and that's fine. Trinkly,

if you have a small dog, I totally get that. But I don't think anybody would say no to it.

Like nobody's going to kick loose leash walking out of the hammock if it were to show up in their

lives, right? Am I right? Okay. So, first of all,

before we talk about loose leash walking, I think we need to define it. And in order to define it,

I want to differentiate between loose leash walking and healing, because I'm going to talk about

these as two very kind of different sets of behaviors. Yes, there's some overlap there in that,

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