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Loose leash walking, pulling issues

after six years and five different pieces of equipment on our 78 pound boxer mix rooster i can finally walk him past the neighbors labradoodle without dislocating my shoulder, so here is the honest gadget ranking from worst to least worst, the two exercises that actually did the work when the gadgets finally stopped, the front clip harness sizing mistake that cost me an entire summer, and the specific week i realized we had been solving a strength problem with a training problem for five and a half years

Rooster is a 78 pound boxer mix, we think there is some kind of large working dog in there because he came out of the rescue at 55 pounds at 8 months and finished growing at 78 which surprised...

Posted by jen_hates_pulling•
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three year old male GSP who is genuinely calm at home and rock solid off leash in fenced fields but pulls a steady twenty to forty pounds of pressure on every walk, three trainers and five equipment configurations later i need an assessment framework on whether this is a training problem, an equipment problem, an arousal management problem, or the kind of dog this is going to be

Ozzie is our 3 year old male german shorthaired pointer, 63lb, neutered at 18 months, came home as a 9 week puppy from a hunting line breeder in upstate new york, and he is the dog who has taught me...

Posted by retiredtech_lori•
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ten month old vizsla who walked beautifully on a loose leash from week sixteen through month seven and has begun pulling so consistently in the last three weeks that the walks are becoming dread chores for both of us, looking for the version of adolescent sporting breed leash regression from families and trainers who have lived the pattern and what the resolution arc actually looked like inside it

Saskia is a ten month old vizsla we got at sixteen weeks from a breeder we vetted carefully and who has been an unusually easy puppy for the breed in almost every dimension. The leash work was...

Posted by vizsla_pull_ten_months•
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two year old labrador pulls like a sled dog through three different harnesses and two head halters and i am ready to admit we are the problem, what actually changed leash walking for owners of high drive labs and retrievers who have been through this and come out the other side

Hopper is two years old, 72 pounds, neutered male labrador from a working line breeder. We have had him since 9 weeks and we did all of the puppy class work, AKC star puppy stuff, basic obedience...

Posted by pulling_lab_year_two•
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