Lori Hall Webboard User Reg: 06-12-2007
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I am pretty familiar with this type of training - did it with my golden for a short time last year. He did learn simple obedience behaviors quick and easy with it. My most important goal right now with him is to achieve loose leash status! He doesn't yank me, or run ahead, but in a 'distraction' zone, which is just about anywhere but our neighborhood, there is constant, tight tension on the leash. So it has occured to me now, that maybe marker training would help in this issue.
The question is, since we go for a 40 minute walk everyday, and you are suppose to only 'train' for a few minutes at a time, what should the walk look like while you are trying to teach him not to pull? Obviously you couldn't train for 40 minutes in order to get a walk in, but if you 'allow' him to pull when you walk for exercise, won't that confuse him?
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Here is what I did with a senior rescue not long ago (and I'm sure that others will chime in with more suggestions ). This was a dog who already "knew" to pull like a draft horse on the leash, unfortunately.
I taught a casual heel (just a loose-leash no-pull walk) at home and in the yard, and I gave it a name. When I took it on the road, I asked for that named behavior on the walk. I continued to mark and reward when we went for a real walk, of course, since that was not only a new venue, but one with lots of distractions. I did gradually go to random mark/reward.
I also changed the route slightly when I did the first walk with the new behavior so that everything was "new."
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clicker/marker question for loose leash
#209821 - 09/16/2008 03:35 PM 
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). This was a dog who already "knew" to pull like a draft horse on the leash, unfortunately.
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