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Does your dog PULL right after getting a treat? – Loose leash walking

- by MarkW2002 - 29 Comments.

Stop pulling on leash right after getting a treat for walking nicely.

This video is a sneak peak of one of many interesting techniques I will be presenting at the Pet Professional Guild's Summit to train Leash Walking. I am very excited to be speaking and I believe there are still some tickets left! Here is a video I made about the Summit :

The Pet Professional Guild's Summit is in Tampa, Florida Nov 11-13 2015. To get a ticket to the event go to petprofessionalguild.com

This technique needs to be used in conjunction with other techniques. It doesn't teach your dog to walk on a loose leash, it teaches your dog to show impulse control and not forge ahead after receiving reinforcement when training on a walk. Videos on the first steps to training leash walking are here: http://dogmantics.com/leash-walking-2/

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29 Comments on “Does your dog PULL right after getting a treat? – Loose leash walking”

  3. Wow that’s funny, cause I had exactly the same issue with my german shorthaired pointer puppy. I figured that, if I would feed the treat while standing and then waiting for her to concentrate back on me we would have a way better start walking nice next to each other again. So, I can absolutely agree, it work’s! 😀 (I tried it about 2 weeks ago and now there is that video, sweet we had the same idea, hehe)

    1. Aedony Awesome! I was sneaking around your neighborhood and spying on you. Actually the idea is to teach the behavior in your house not on a walk – eating a treat CUES wait and look BEFORE moving outside. Then when you are on a walk, a distracted/over aroused dog will be able to “think” to do the behavior, where if it is not previously trained, waiting for the dog to come up with the idea on a walk when he might not even want to eat food might be stressful or it might just not happen. Lacey our lurcher taught us that, she would have never been able to do what your puppy did, think to look back, she would just stand at the end of the leash and start to pant and get stress bags under her eyes if we were to wait see if she could think it out on her own on a walk.

    2. kikopup No doubt, if I would’ve trained it indoor beforehand it would have worked better and faster! After watching the video she got some home training on this too, thanks for sharing! 🙂

  6. Thanks so much for sharing this. I’m at my wits end with my one-year-old lab. She will heal perfectly giving me good eye contact until she gets a treat. Right after the treat she starts pulling again. Question: when walking outside, do you stop every time you offer a treat for good behavior? I’ve trained my dog to sit when I stop for example at crosswalks, so I’m afraid I will confuse her. I’m going to try this. Wish me luck!

  7. I feel like this is a never ending fight 🙁 I’ve tried everything but it never lasts long. As soon as I stop giving treats we’re back to square one. I’ll deffinitely try this because I’m really desperate now. Emily, do you have any tips for how to create stong bond with your dog? Me and my puppy were very close but since she’s gone through puberty we grew apart so much. She does enjoy playing with me, but she much prefers playing with other dogs if she has the chance. She also doesn’t enjoy training with me anymore, although she was doing so well and really liked it when she was little. Any tips? Some kind of activity that bonds you and your dog? I really makes me sad. She’s 16 months now.

  8. Thank you for this video! I have 14 month golden that is 80 lbs and i absolutely needed this help before i ended up in the hospital for shoulder surgery. You are a great person to share this with all of us dog lovers!

  9. One of your earlier videos on leash walking, wherein you first introduced the criteria of the dog NOT looking at you while walking nicely, was the crucial piece my dog and I needed to finally start seeing real improvements in this behavior! Before I was hesitant to take her many places for fear of embarrassment, but now we go on outings all the time. Thanks very much for that.

  11. Thank you, I’m always looking for different ways to approach problems. Your videos are awesome – I have been following them for 4yrs or so when a few very first appeared on what was then a very rudimentary PPG site. Thank you

  14. I used the kissy noise with my dog after reading turid rugaas’s book (during the summer), but then in winter it was so cold that I couldn’t make the sound. Haha. Also she couldn’t hear me in the wind or near traffic. Now I say “Hey!” in a nice voice, because I can vary the volume and it works even when my face is cold.

  15. I’ve been teaching my puppy various “wait” and stay put commands. In order to teach those, I taught her to stay put until I say “Okay” – at which point I usually have to kind of convince her to get up by acting excited. Now, whenever she is released from any calm position, she kind of darts up. So – when I try this technique, and have her wait to move forward, she moves forward very excitedly – because she has been released from a holding position. What to do, what to do?

  18. Thanks for the great video. I will try this. Thank you for your effort for making so many great video. I can’t imagine a life with my puppy without your videos, actually.

  19. Love your videos. I’m finding them more helpful than ZG’s. My huskador is a puller and extremely reactive. I took her out on a training session this morning, and had a hard time keeping her attention from pulling onto people’s lawns to eat cut grass (her favourite), or chasing birds. Inside the house, it is no better, because we have 7 cats and she thinks they’re prey. I’m going to keep watching all your playlists till we have this right.

    1. That is stressful with the arousal over the cats at home. I unfortunately don’t have a video on that specific topic, the only stuff I have on prey drive is about prey outside the house in my harnessing the hunter video on demand on my website. But it doesnt really apply because it doesnt go over managing the dog and the prey in the same house.

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