Rollo - who has been so much better at lead walking since he spent 10 days with his trainer - is deteriorating a bit and I need some specific tactics to respond to specific behaviour:
After a while of walking on his lead, attached to a normal collar, he gets fed up and starts to twist his head and bite onto the lead. I tell him to Drop but he's having none of that. He gets more excited, jumping up and trying to nip at me, where I'm holing his lead. Finally, he'll flop down on the ground, still holding his lead in his mouth, lie on his back and completely refuse to go any further.
I've tried holding the lead nearer his collar - but he just then tries to bite at me (not in an aggressive way), or putting my foot on the lead, nearish his collar, when he's lying down and not interacting at all (difficult if you're dashing back to the car from a walk and have to be somewhere else quickly!) and distracting him with a food treat thrown in front of him, to redirect his attention.
The latter tactic works for a bit but I'm really trying not to return to an old bad habit I used to get him to walk at all - which was throwing a treat ahead of us. He then learned not to walk on at all unless there was a treat on the ground for him and the trainer managed to get him out of that, thankfully.
What else can I try for the lead biting/ jumping up? Secondly, what's the best tactic when your dog simply flops down and refuses to walk at all? He's much more that sort of dog than ones who pull ahead and want to get going? He was better with the trainer with this too as he'd walk with her dogs who were 'modelling' walking on.
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Solo2 · 23/07/2011 09:43
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