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36 Comments on “If you don’t want to hold a leash in public use a hands-free leash – professional dog training”

    1. Dude, no need for ignorant comments.

      The dog is a service dog.
      It is highly trained.
      They don’t just take off.

      Even if one has a pet dog, using proper basic obedience training, the dog should not take off.

      U don’t just use that kind of a leash and not do proper training.

    1. I know. I am struggling with trying to keep up w/ social media. I wrote the same in the description because of this. I honestly was going to do voice over but some days, as you can imagine one gets sick of hearing their own voice on the videos.

  4. I use a short traffic lead.
    I am usually holding on to it, but there r times where I will let go of it (example when I have her in a down stay at my feet when checking out at a register, or have her under a table or chair at a doc appt or restaurant).
    Plus with the type of medical conditions I have, I can pass out.
    And if I fall in a long leash and trap it, she would be restricted from being able to properly complete her response tasks.

    1. Understandable. Just adding a story from recent experience. We were in a dog-friendly restaurant at a ski resort last month, seated at a table between an Akita and a very large German shepherd. I put my dog on a down under our table, then set my purse down so it blocked his view of the Akita. The GS was at the far end of the restaurant with multiple tables between us. When the server came around to ask what the GS’s owner wanted to order, her dog took exception, stood up, and began growling and barking. He was somehow contained and lunch went on. My border collie remained at my feet, his leash draped loosely over my leg. As the GS table people were traversing into view on their way out, their dog glanced around, spotted my dog lying quietly under our table, and began lunging, barking and growling at him. This caused my dog to suddenly leap up to meet the challenge. His leash slipped off my leg and it was only by leaping up myself and grabbing for it that disaster was averted. So we’re more on our toes now—more situationally aware. And I tend to make sure to hook or tie my dog’s leash to something solid when I know my attention will be elsewhere. I don’t need him to perform any vital service tasks, tho, so am not comparing my situation to yours, just sharing my near-brush with disaster.

    3. Good point. My young dog is yet up to many off lead public situations. Off lead alert or bring tasks ADs are required to do while at work are important and necessary for many PWDs in public.
      Another task for ADs can be lead handler to the nearest outside space. It is interesting to remember how many different roles ADs can have.

    4. @earth2wendy yea my girl is trained to ignore that.

      However she has had aggressive dogs charge/lung at her.
      One of which nearly snapped right at her face.
      Luckily the outside tie-out it was attached to (we were walking on the side walk) kept it from coming any closer, and because i had a hold of her traffic lead i was able to yank her back just in time, and we had to jump out into the road.
      The aggressive dog’s outside tie-out was too long and the dog was able to reach the sidewalk we were on.
      I did report it to the police though, cause that is a bad incident just waiting to happen.
      Their dog came with in less than an inch of snapping my service girl’s face off.
      What if I hadn’t gotten her back in time, or what if it was someone else with their pet dog who may also lack training or not fully under control either, or if it was a child, or even a blind person (which I know of two that live right in that town).
      The police told them they need to shorten their dog’s outside tie-out and keep it back away from the sidewalks.

  6. The ADA says Under the ADA, service animals must be harnessed, leashed, or tethered, unless the individual’s disability prevents using these devices or these devices interfere with the service animal’s safe, effective performance of tasks. In that case, the individual must maintain control of the animal through voice, signal, or other effective controls.

    3. What is ADA?
      I haven’t heard of this in any training in Australia.
      I’m guessing it means when in jacket or working too (Australian ADs are not required to wear jackets), or is it all the time in public spaces?

      Disability related AD tasks can vary so much person to person.

    4. @Epsilon K Nodaped ADA is Americans with disabilities act.
      Pretty much it is both an American civil rights as well as the federal laws.
      A section of the act is for service dogs.

    5. @Dog Training by Kikopup yea there’s a lot of people who don’t know about that part (or honestly most parts, lol) of the ADA.

      I am actually working on getting the anti-discrimination and ada rights/laws taught in schools.
      Just recently reached out to one of my teachers I had when I was in school (she still taches there) at my hometown school, and she is discussing it with the other staff and principal there.
      So far they absolutely live the idea of having it taught in school, currently looking at starting to teach it in the 9th grade level.
      If it goes over well then I would like to start reaching out to more schools in at least this area, and then this state and see if we can get it taught in more schools.
      If it goes over well in other schools as well, I would then like to see about eventually getting taught in all schools across the country, in hopes that it will eventually help mitigate a lot of the issues for in the future.

  7. That’s all fine and dandy. I need the part were your Aussie doesn’t feel the need to walk ahead of you. She doesn’t pull But she hast to be in front.

    1. I love when my dogs walk ahead of me on walks, so that I can see when they want to stop. As long as they arnt pulling theres no issue. I do have a 2 hour video on leash walking for free on this channel as well as a 6 week self study course on my website. But if your dog is not pulling its not a problem. For service work I do like my dog next to me.

  9. It’s not because they don’t to hold a leash it’s because they don’t want to spend the time to train their dog to walk nice on leash so they get lazy and just don’t use one 😒 it’s so so bad where I live. I had an off leash dog literally bolt up on my dog from behind and start attacking her. I had my little baby with me….

    1. USA but also inside stores for service dogs, unless your dogs task requires him to be off leash he should be on a leash. When I lived in Malmo sweden even deep mid city dogs can be off leash anywhere, but the people have care for others so there are no dogs attacking other dogs if peoples dogs had issues or didint listen they put them on a leash. Its so weird how it is so different here in the USA. people dont care for the other or other peoples dogs like they do in europe…

    2. @Dog Training by Kikopupthis is so true. I moved to the US from Germany and am always shocked at the overly strict leash laws everywhere, the idea of a ‘dog park’ fenced in dogs(!) was foreign to me, how unfriendly dog people are to each other…and how much more of a problem dog reactivity seems to be over here…maybe because of all the above?

  12. Epsilon was gifted one of these leads. The one we have is too heavy and the buckle bumping her is something I worry about.
    The solution I have worked out for my small but very useful ADiT (she is only 4.7kg) is a light cloth cat lead (a lucky find at the dump 2nd hand shop) clipped onto the collar and the buckle refastened to D-shackles higher up. The additional length and a softer thing to roll on after taking jacket off happy, roly-poly time are things we appreciate.
    Shoulder harness can be helpful in many ways.

  14. my dog is reactives/sometimes aggressive and off leash dogs run up to us
    all the time. luckily she’s small so i pick her up. but like, i saw a
    big dog running from far away and as always i said “my dog isn’t
    friendly!” and they shouted “oh, it’s okay, mine is” -_- bruh WHAT
    nooooo that’s not how that works.

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