This is the puppy training podcast episode number 10 loose leash walking.

This podcast is for those looking to train their own dog, whether as a companion,

therapy, or service dog. And I'm here to help you every step of the way. This is the puppy

training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hi, thanks for listening in today. I'm going to talk about loose leash walking, and I'm going to teach you how to train a very young puppy, even from eight weeks old, how to walk on a leash.

Now, this is important because obviously we don't want to be walking around the block with our

dog ripping our arm off or

we're chasing after them trying to hold on to them especially if we have a dog that's going to weigh

you know up to 60 80 pounds now if you have a little dog it's a different story but still it's

embarrassing if your puppy's all over the place barking at dogs who are going by not paying

attention to you,

and just really doing whatever they want. So I feel like loose leash walking is a really important

subject and that it's something that we can all train our puppies to do from a very young age.

They're very capable of learning this skill. It simply has to be taught to them.

The worst thing that you could do at the beginning of this process would be to

follow your puppy if he pulls. Now think of how often you put your puppy on leash, let's say

you're going out to do potty trips or simply just walk around your house or going to and from your mailbox.

Anytime you follow your puppy and he's pulling, you're rewarding that pull. And dogs will do what serves them

or whatever works best for them. So if your puppy's pulling toward a bird or pulling towards the

bark and a bush or whatever he wants to go check out and you follow him, then he learns that

pulling works. So while we talk about this today, and I give you some tips and

tricks on how to do this, let's remember in the back of our minds that we never, ever follow a pulling

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