How to leash train my dog?

Oh here is the picture with 3 of our dogs. My brother or I will just sit very still with the dogs and teach them to be calm and patient on the leash.

Dogs are so smart and they love to learn, you just have to make it fun and interesting for them

as mean as it sounds, you may have to get a harness on it. the harness holds the dog back much easier and teaches it to listen to the leash’s motions, after a while the dog will start responding to your tugs on the leash at which point you can simply tug away and the dog will follow. im not sure how long this will take though.

Phrannie has covered eveything I would say.

The only thing I would add is leaving the leash and collar on him in the house and keep him with you, If you have to tie the leash aound your waist and have him go everywhere you do in the house. If you are watching TV he is on his collar and leash next to you.

I would switch him out of the prong collar into a regular collar when you have him on the leash in the house.

If you have other dogs, they will also lead him around on the leash. When I got some of my dogs out of kennels (never having been out of a cage) I would put a collar on my dog and a cheap leash on him and my other dogs would pick up the leash and lead my new dog around. Funny thing the dog on the leash would follow them. It is really cool to watch, your other dogs train the new dog. I keep a lot of cheap leashes around just for the above types of training.

One thing I think your have realized is you should have started the leash and collar thing when he was a puppy. The puppy in the picture I have attached is 10 weeks old. When he left my home to his new home, he would heal, sit and go for walks as far as his little Boston Terrier legs would carry him. I start my puppies on collar and leash at 6 weeks. I let them one by one (meaning not all at once at this age) run around the house with a leash on them. Supervised of course.

Good luck it can be done it just takes work.

Oh do you carrying treats? A must. When you are teaching him to walk with you on a leash with you, treat in hand bending over put the treat on his nose and then pull it away just out of his reach and take a couple of steps. as he takes a few steps give him the treat and do it again. Of course you want to give him small treats when doing this so that he doesn’t get full and lose interest. A good time to work with him is he has not eaten for a couple of hours.

In the picture I have of the Boston Puppy, my brother is just sitting with him on the lawn. My brother and I take turns sitting with the dog we are training and just sit with them like this keeping the dog close on the leash just sitting still. There is actually three dogs on leashes sitting with him in the picture.

Well that wasn’t the exact picture were everyone is sitting really still including my brother but I think you get the idea.

PS…is he truly afraid??? ie: does he hide? urinate? or is his “protesting”…ie: laying down, whining, won’t move…etc etc…???

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