Why Your Dog Is Still Pulling on Leash And How To Fix It #73
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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If you'd like to train your dog to walk beside you on a leash without pulling, you are in the right place. There is one mistake that most people make when they are training walking on lead, and that is overwhelming their dog. In dog training lingo, we call it "lumping". Once you understand how to split a behaviour down, you will have success and quickly stop your dog from pulling on leash.
In the episode you'll hear:
• What it would be like to learn how to juggle while on a pushbike.
• Why new people are like seeing movie stars for a puppy.
• About birds and bunnies and all the things that are distraction on your walks.
• How to split walking on a leash down for your dog.
• The easy way to start loose leash walking with perch work and pivots.
• Why it will only take you 7 days if you commit.
• How pivots help your dog to change sides on a walk.
• The importance of building value for Reinforcement Zone (RZ) for your dog.
• How to start fading your foot target.
• Why training leash walking starts with you and your dog stationary.
• How to know if you have gone too far, too fast and lumped.
• What to do to exercise your dog while you are working on walking on a lead.
• The layers needed for our dogs to succeed with loose leash walking.
Resources:
• YouTube Video: Susan Garrett's Perch Work Dog Tricks (Pivots and Spins) - https://youtu.be/O6sj6fTJnFc
• Podcast Episode 53: Stop Your Dog Pulling on Leash and Start Walking Together - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/53/
• Podcast Episode 32: 20 Easy Ways to Exercise Your Dog at Home - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/32/
• Podcast Episode 59: Why Your Treats Aren't Working for Your Dog - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/59/
• Vlog Post: How do I Stop My Dog from Pulling on the Leash? - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/01/stop-my-dog-pulling-on-leash/
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/gPMkBT_GGTs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine if you came to me and said, |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, Susan, could you teach me how to juggle? |
| 0:13.8 | And I said, sure, grab a bike. |
| 0:16.2 | A bike? |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, a bike. |
| 0:18.2 | And while you were peddling, I said, just take these three balls and throw them up in the air and then catch them. How successful do you think you'd be? Probably not very successful, right? And what if walking down the street was somebody you've always looked up to and somebody you've always wanted to meet? Like, I don't know, Beyonce or Bonae Brown or LeBron James or somebody like that. How do you think it would go for you? |
| 0:38.9 | And what if I snapped at you? |
| 0:39.9 | Hey, knock it off. |
| 0:40.6 | Pay attention. |
| 0:42.3 | Watch me or something like that. |
| 0:43.2 | Do you think that would help? |
| 0:52.9 | But that's the equivalent of what most dogs are faced with when they're being taught to walk on a leash by their owner. |
| 0:56.8 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. If you're watching this on YouTube and you would like to see your dog walking better on leash, go ahead and |
| 1:01.6 | hit the like button now. If you're not watching this on YouTube and you're listening to your car, |
| 1:06.8 | you're going to want to come over to YouTube because I was actually juggling just there. |
| 1:11.3 | Today I'm going to share with you the number one mistake that people make when they're trying |
| 1:15.8 | to teach their dogs to walk on a loose leash. And that is, they overwhelm the dog. |
| 1:22.5 | My mentor Bob Bailey calls it lumping. You know, you can either be a splitter or somebody who splits behavior |
| 1:29.6 | into small pieces to teach a dog or a lumper. And when you're a lumper, I can promise you, |
| 1:36.3 | your dog is unlikely to have success. So how do people lump walking on a loose leash? Well, |
| 1:43.7 | they do things like they expect a dog to not scratch |
| 1:47.9 | out the collar. Now, some people go, oh, no, no, no, my dog is used to the collar. Everything's cool with that. |
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