My Dog Lacey

I heard today that our girl is terrible on the leash in the late afternoons. She pulls on the leash, stops to smell whatever it is dogs smell and is adamant about sticking with the smell until she’s ready to move on.

Ok, so some of it is the humans walking her. I haven’t trained them to keep her from doing these things. I also haven’t walked her at that particular time of day.

I do know that when I’m home and she’s out and about in the house, it’s a high energy time. She tears through the house, into the back yard, usually up on furniture (but not since we recovered our couches with decorative and new-age, stylish aluminum foil!), running circles around everything for about half an hour.

So I know she needs some good solid exercise about that time of day. Walking may not be enough. I’ll have to think on this some more.

Then there’s also that I need to train her to walk nicely whenever she’s on the leash, no matter how much energy she has or who’s walking her. I also need to train the other members of my house how to get her to do what she’s supposed to.

I’ll do some walking with her at this time of day and see what happens. I may have to get out my handy prong collar for these walks. Knowing her temperament, I probably would only have to use it once or twice and she’d get the message.

Will write more as I have success (or failure for that matter).
Anna

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 at 8:48 pm and is filed under Dog Training. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I heard today that our girl is terrible on the leash in the late afternoons. She pulls on the leash, stops to smell whatever it is dogs smell and is adamant about sticking with the smell until she’s ready to move on.

Ok, so some of it is the humans walking her. I haven’t trained them to keep her from doing these things. I also haven’t walked her at that particular time of day.

I do know that when I’m home and she’s out and about in the house, it’s a high energy time. She tears through the house, into the back yard, usually up on furniture (but not since we recovered our couches with decorative and new-age, stylish aluminum foil!), running circles around everything for about half an hour.

So I know she needs some good solid exercise about that time of day. Walking may not be enough. I’ll have to think on this some more.

Then there’s also that I need to train her to walk nicely whenever she’s on the leash, no matter how much energy she has or who’s walking her. I also need to train the other members of my house how to get her to do what she’s supposed to.

I’ll do some walking with her at this time of day and see what happens. I may have to get out my handy prong collar for these walks. Knowing her temperament, I probably would only have to use it once or twice and she’d get the message.

Will write more as I have success (or failure for that matter).
Anna

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 at 8:48 pm and is filed under Dog Training. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.