Dog Training, Loose Leash Walking, prelude to the heel command

Natalie learns how to properly use a leash to control her Brittany Spaniel Petty. Using the leash to get and keep Petty's attention for moving correctly in the ring while walking on a loose leash, a skill all dogs should be and can be taught. Natalie has two first place wins in Novice Juniors in back-to-back shows since starting to work with Linda Kaim of Coeur d'Lion K9. Linda spent many years learning how to handle dogs in the breed ring and has finished champions in the Sporting Group, the Working Group and the Herding group as a professional handler. She now focuses her time training dogs for many disciplines and instructs owners to handle their own dogs successfully in both the breed ring and Obedience. Coeur d'Lion K9 Behavior Management provides training and instruction for all dogs, all breeds and all ages in Virginia, Maryland, DC, Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Dog
• show
• Brittany
• Spaniel
• Junior
• Showmanship
• dog
• handling
• Dog Training
• Puppy
• Agility
• Dogs

[coeurdlionk9]

I assure you, no dogs were harmed in the making of this video or any of the others. Thank you for you concern however.

[coeurdlionk9]

Thanks for the compliment. The idea is to teach the dog to be more attentive to the handler, or as you correctly pointed out, "the direction maker".

L.K.

[BernerAzuro]

Try and ask yourself WHY the dogs get more attentive to the handler: Because if not, its necks gonna hurt (sorry about the primitive explanation, Im from Denmark). I know your method and partly use it myself only I make sure that I dont give a hard tug to the dogs neck, but make a soft turn and try to catch the dogs attention with treats - which works too. Besides, those hard tugs can damage the neck and thereby cause pain to the dogs - it's not fair for the dog and can lead to aggressive :-(

[coeurdlionk9]

The dog pays attention to the handler because he learns responsibility for his actions. Pay attention, get rewarded. Don't pay attention and the handler disappears. The handler is a 9 year old girl, her movements are not yet polished and she is working a rambunctious, adolescent male dog. As for leading to aggression, in 30 years I have never seen the appropriate application of a correction make a dog aggressive, nor have I seen injuries as you describe. My other videos clearly show this.

[BernerAzuro]

Okay, I'm happy to hear that and hope you are right :-) Haven't checked any other of your videos (ad sadly haven't got the time right now), but I just saw that some of them are about clickertraining, great. I might just have got the wrong impression from this video :-)

[BernerAzuro]

But if the dog pulls and you just turn around without caring if the dog saw it, then it will get some hard tugs at times, which can lead to the damages. I dont know how you would react in the situation, but I saw the 9 year old do it and that was enough to alert me, since you didnt look like checking up neither. No video show pain the dogs are good at hiding it (a lot of dogs have painful HD without one can ever see it I knew of one).

[BernerAzuro]

Thanks for answering

You may not have heard about those damages but lots of chiroractors can confirm it and behavior specialists too (of course, that demands on what knowledge they have, I dont think Cesar Millan would). And the aggression was due to the pain in the back, which was caused by tugging sry I did not write that properly (short space to write in).

[Grizzly0679]

what's idea here? Like he'll eventually learn we're the "direction maker" (for lack of a better word)? This is a great vid by the way.

[astoria76]

I think this video is great but the audio is so low. Any suggestions?