Leash Corrections? When and for how long?

minimom

luvmyswissy

My questions was simple, do you use leash corrections?  As defined in dog training.

I'm kind of unclear as how a leash correction is defined in dog training.  I think I'm getting the idea from reading the posts here, but may I ask for some clarification?

 

Say for instance, I'm walking my dog and he comes across something that he desperately wants to check out and I don't want him anywhere near it.  I tell him to leave it and he ignores me.  So, using the leash, I physically pull him away.  Is that a leash correction?

A leash correction defined by most trainers is a "sharp", "quick", "well timed snap" of the leash.  Although many people would find that forcing a dog to comply in anyway is aversive, so yeah if you beleive that pulling your dog towards you on leash is aversive please tell us if it works to stop his behaviors effectively.

I really don't see how anyone can not correct there dog ever, all dogs make mistakes and how will they learn if we do not correct them? I'm not talking just about leash correction, but any form of correction. We do have to remind him of manners still, not all the time but every once in awhile. Maybe my dog isn't perfect.....? But hey- neither am I, I still need some reminding every once in awhile too.

*Off-topic, the content removed/replies to the above...would be an excellent beginning to another thread.*

Moderator speaking...once again. 

Reposting the topic of this thread....kindly stick to it....start new threads to discuss other forms of training.

luvmyswissy

 

A leash correction defined by most trainers is a "sharp", "quick", "well timed snap" of the leash.  Although many people would find that forcing a dog to comply in anyway is aversive, so yeah if you beleive that pulling your dog towards you on leash is aversive please tell us if it works to stop his behaviors effectively.

Thanks for the explanation.  In that case, I guess I haven't really intentionally used a leash correction or at least haven't used them for a number of years.  And no, I don't think that I consider pulling my dog to me as aversive (another term that I'm not all that clear on). 

Swissy, I haven't used any on lead corrections in ages myself.  Unless you count a voice correction?  But I talk so much to my dogs when we're walking, on or off lead, that they are always listening, lest they miss something good....like treat?

DPU

luvmyswissy

I'm done.  So much for trying to get a simple answer from people WHO use  them (or other aversive training) and for how long.  

I guess I don't understand.  Don't all dogs pretty much have to be on a leash at some point, in a vet clinic, on a walk, etc....required by law.  How can anyone avoid the leash not being an aversion or used in a correction.  Just saying one never uses a leash corrections for behaviors but still use a leash, makes absolutely positively no sense to me at all.