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Help, My Dog Keeps Biting The Leash! Use Tugging On Lead To Your Walking Advantage

Great way to break some stress that I love to do with my dogs is teach them to tug on their leash. Now I could hear, see some of you going, Susan, everyone tells me don't let my puppy tug on the leash. Why? That's because sometimes they think the dogs are getting control of all the games. But when we play games intentionally, that doesn't happen. So, I will get my dogs to tug on the leash. And again, a nice leash that's braided and fleecy and fun. They're going to want to tug on it. And this is like a great fun stress reliever. And when I'm walking my dogs, I don't have to have a separate toy. And so, once you get your dog who loves to tug on the leash and you can do this away from the walking them, then what you're going to do is put the leash on, have them sit in position, and it's a game of it's your choice. Now, if the dog just grabs at the leash, it's crazy about it. I want you to break this away, put the leash in a bag and put it down in front of the dog, open the bag, and pull out the leash. If they grab for it, put it back in. This is a game of it's your choice, but instead of having cookies in your hand, you're putting a leash in a zipper bag. Unzip it, pull it out. If they grab for it, put it back in and zip it up until they can learn that they have to not grab the leash until you say, get it. And then they can tug. So, once you've got that kind of understanding, the dog can be on leash. You can put the leash in front of them. They're not going to get it because they know the game of it's your choice. It starts with just a little handful of cookies. And if you've never played it's your choice, I'm going to put a link in the show notes where you can join in it's your choice summit. All right. So, that leads to being able to do it on leash. And then you've got a great release for your dog. A lot of times when you're playing tug with your dogs on leash, it tends to invigorate other dogs in the environment. So, it's a great stress reliever, but before you turn and let your dog tug on leash, take a look around the neighborhood and take a look around your surroundings and be confident there's no other dogs nearby. Because that might escalate the other dogs to want to join in on the fun or say to your dog, why are you rallying your mother wears army boots and let's have a discussion about it. All right. So, again, I always give you warnings to be safe. When you're playing these in your own house, have at it. All right. But if we're doing them outside, it's a great stress reliever outside. I love to play tug