Dog walking needn’t be a chore if you can teach your dog how to have a loose lead walk. Our Wonderful Walkies Masterclass involves a series of games to show you how to help your pup understand how to walk nicely with you – and how you can best reward your pup for doing just that.
The joys of walking your dog…
Gus and I had a great walk this morning and we kept dry, for once. I love going out with him – just me and him, setting the world to rights. Well, I do at least and I’m sure he listens while he pootles around, sniffing and trying occasionally to eat poo….
…As long as your dog can walk nicely on a lead
But walking your dog can be a chore and often it ends up feeling like one. If you are being towed down the street, arms the length of the Lagan, feeling like an irrelevance to your dog, then a walk is no fun.
Or perhaps your pup is a ball of energy, spinning in circles while you try to put their harness on and wrapping the lead round your legs before you’ve even taken one step. You’re exhausted before you’ve even started to register steps on your smart watch.
Perhaps you’re fed up stopping every two paces to pull something noxious out of your dog’s mouth. Or worse still, perhaps that something is your dog’s lead – the fifth one you’ve had to buy in a month.
You might have tried everything to stop your dog pulling. Wrapping the lead tight round your wrist, buying one of those leads with elastic so you don’t get jerked so much – but nothing seems to help, and if you pull back, they pull harder, determined to ignore you and reach every scent they can find.
Do you recognise yourself?
If so, you need our Wonderful Walkies Masterclass, an intensive 90 minute session where we’ll teach you the secrets of pleasant, loose lead walks. Through a series of games (and stretch exercises for the ambitious) we’ll show you just how to help your pup understand how to walk nicely with you – and how you can best reward your pup for doing just that.
Don’t see walks as a chore.
Come and join us on Saturday 21st August at 2pm and start enjoying your walks together.
Keep training and stay safe,
Carol
