What are walks like with your dog?

 Well I dont leash Cheyanne or Lillie on walks. They will come when I call them. I worked on Lillie's recall all summer to get where we are now.

When I take Joker on walks I have him on a 25ft long line or a 4ft leash. On the long line he knows he's allowed to smell and do whatever he wants as long as he doesnt pull when he gets to the end of the line. On the 4ft leash he heels. No smelling, no trying to grab that bottle to play with, no trying to play with that dog,etc. 4ft leash means we're training and he has to pay attention to me.

Fynn is already show leashed train so he walks beside me regardless of being on the 25 long line or the 4ft leash. He is just now figuring out when he's on the long line he is allowed to venture out past my side.

crysania

She rarely pulls on the leash, but she does like to play with the leash, biting it and shaking it and bouncing around you, running after you and around you.  She's hilarious when she does this and it's great fun for all.

Joker does that too. But only if it's one of the others on the leash not him. 

We do walk Dahlia off leash and she's a totally different dog when she's not on leash.  She tends to heel right behind us (which also drives me nuts as I want to SEE her) or sometimes stay just in front of me.  If you call her, she immediately returns to me and sits down for her reward, whatever that might be (usually on walks, it's lots of praise).

She has a 15-foot leash we use with her on walks in the city (she's really reliable off leash, but it's illegal to not walk her on leash and there are way too many people with untrained dogs in the area...I prefer keeping her nearby just in case).  And she does really well on it, much better than on a 6-foot lead.

Dahlia completely ignores people unless they look at her or stop to say hi to her.  Then she'll sit down and stare up at them.  Once in awhile, she puts her paw up on someone.  We're not sure what it is about certain people makes her do that.

Walks with Ari continue to be frustrating.  She's a leash puller BIG TIME.  And is much stronger now than before.  The problem we have is just being OUTSIDE is far too distracting for her to focus on us, though she's making progress here (believe me she can walk around the house in a perfect heel on or off leash, with simulated distractions, but ONLY if it's indoors).  But I still do it - b/c she'd be out of control without some walks happening during the day lol.   

That said however, I do enjoy getting out with her.  Everything is new to her.  And that makes it new to me all over again.   

 Leash walks - the dogs have no-pull harnesses when they are all together. They tend to try to compete with one another. When I walk one at a time, they walk very nicely and pretty much float at the end of the leash while looking at me to see where we're going.

Most of our walks are done off leash though.

Shailer will pull when on a regular collar and I have to constantly correct that but when I put on his halti he will heel. He is so layed back. He will not pull to get to other dogs ( well when its me behind the leash if its not me oh boy.....!), he doesn't sniff around, he does pee a lot when not on his halter.

Pudding she pulls like crazy and I need to start teaching her not to pull.

 Mine compete. Emma (the one with the titles behind her name, LOL) is my puller. I didn't raise her right, I swear. Whatever I did wrong with her, I've done right, with the puppy. Ena has never, ever pulled in a collar. When I put them in harnesses, they both pull. In a collar, Ena heels, and Emma will pull if she's not TOLD to heel. She's sneaky, like that.

So, usually, I put them in harnesses and let them pull, or walk them off leash, LOL. I don't want to be annoyed with Emma. 

Walks with Apollo are a lot of fun. I really enjoy taking him out.

Leash walks...he heels, never pulls (anymore! he used to pull like a truck!). He auto sits.He may mark a few trees or telephone poles, not a serious marker. Our only problem is when we see another dog, one that is out of control. That aggrivates him (hackles up, whining), so when we see dogs pulling like nut cakes toward us we turn and walk in a different direction before he starts whining. Dogs that are relaxed, and their owners have control over them, he's not phased by.

Off leash walks....awesome. I LOVE them, he LOVES them. He will heel if I tell him, and he auto sits. Whatever dog we see he ignores, and if the dog runs up to him he's super friendly (wiggly tail, play bows, butt sniffin';). He's will "leave it" if I command it. I really love off leash walks. If we're at a park I let him do his own thing, but he's never too far from me (I can always see him), and he has a rock solid recall.

He is better off leash than on. Off leash I tell him to "heel" once, and he does it until I say "ok" (release, go sniff, go play). On leash I might have to tell him to heel a few times during our walk, or I say "eh eh" when he starts to get ahead of me and that usually reminds him to "heel".

We usually jog the 5 mile off-leash dog trail, with the dogs romping around us at will. If it's too muddy for that we usually do a slow sniff-at-will leash walk out on a different set of trails then jog steadily back. Never really seen the point of just walking with a large dog walking steadily next to you- if they aren't sniffing around at will or moving at a fast trot I don't think they get any benefit from the outing.

mudpuppy

Never really seen the point of just walking with a large dog walking steadily next to you- if they aren't sniffing around at will or moving at a fast trot I don't think they get any benefit from the outing.

I live literally 30 minutes from Boston and we walk around the city a lot, passing people all the time....so, unless we're at a park he has to walk next to me, heeling. When we pass large groups of people he has to behave politely- people in Boston don't want some big dog pulling toward them and sniffing them up and down! City dogs need very good leash manners. But, like I said, at the park I let him do his own thing.

Woobie pulls so he's ahead the entire time, Indie will walk right beside me or slightly ahead but not pulling.  Towards the end of a long walk, Indie is lagging behind and Woobie's still pulling.   It's gotten a little better and Woobie doesn't pull super hard anymore, but when they see another dog or approaching people, they pull to try to greet them.  I've taught them "Wait" on the side of the walking trail to let people pass, but if the person is with a dog, they will usually try to pull and greet the dog, just as they are even with us.  We don't do off leash walking, there's nowhere around that it's allowed here.  I wouldn't trust either of them anyway.  If Woobie gets spooked, he's gone and if Indie thinks something needs investigating, he's gone as well, so I don't risk it.

BlackLabbie

He is better off leash than on. Off leash I tell him to "heel" once, and he does it until I say "ok" (release, go sniff, go play). On leash I might have to tell him to heel a few times during our walk, or I say "eh eh" when he starts to get ahead of me and that usually reminds him to "heel".

 I'm glad someone else has this "issue" with their dog.  On leash, Dahlia will pull to get to any dog that is near us -- across the road, ahead or behind on the same side.  She's gotten better with this since we got her, but she still tends to want to greet other dogs we see.  Sometimes a "leave it" will get her to keep moving, but it won't stop her from turning to look at the dog and stumbling over her own feet as she tries to walk in the direction I want to go while craning her neck to watch the other dog.

 But off leash she's brilliant.  If she sees another dog and starts heading in that direction, we can call her back with no problems.  She'll rush back to us and stand at our side quivering in excitement even if the dog is fairly near to us.  She does her own thing a bit, wandering around and sniffing, but has rock solid recall even if it's something she's fascinated by.  I LOVE taking her off leash because she just has such joy in it!

We live in a city, so a lot of walks are on leash, but we have a huge cemetery near us where people let their dogs off leash and also a park with a walk around the pond that's far enough away from streets for it to be used off leash.

Currently, walks to us are... non existance! Fellow Canadians with teeny tiny dogs with surely understand. It's wayyy to darn cold to make it down the driveway, never go for an actualy walk. Simply taking the dogs out for their potty makes them lift up their frozen paws and topple over, whimpering.

In the warm days, we do go for freqeunt walks, though. Penny is a LETS GO GO GO GO walker. She's constantly at the very end up the leash, trying to pull up as far as possible. Daisy is a more relaxed dog, who sometimes needs coaxing to really get going. She's also rather difficult to control, she's not used to being controlled via leash (puppy mill survivor), so I hate walking them together. I usually take them seperately, or another family member will take one.